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------- Additional comments from t...@openoffice.org Fri Jun 5 13:57:08 +0000 2009 ------- Claiming this is good behaviour is absurd. The user doesn't know the technical detail that there is actually just one OOo process running that handles all documents that are simultaneously open. Note that in the Task Manager's "Applications" pane, each document open in the same OOo process shows up separately. Surely users expect that when opening a document from Explorer (or its equivalent on other platforms), a window opens editing the document, and that this window becomes the active one, is on top of other windows in the current Z-order to the extent possible, has the keyboard focus, etc. Why should it be different if another document already happens to be open in OOo? Also note that at least on Windows the behaviour when opening a second (third, etc) document is not consistent. Depening on how the user has happened to open and close documents in the running OOo instance before, and how he has happened to switch to other windows like Explorer ones, opening a new doc from Explorer in OOo will or will not make the window for the new document active and on the top. A corresponding bug report in the Novell bugzilla also brings up the case when a subsequent document is of a type that needs the user to complete some import dialog before the document can be loaded. (Like for instance a .csv document.) That import dialog might be completely hidden. Unlike the case of a document that loads and opens right away (even if not on the top and not active), the import dialog does not get any separate taskbar entry. The title for the icon in the Alt-Tab task switcher for one of the already open documents does change to "Text import [foo.csv]", though, but for users who don't know or don't like to use Alt-Tab but just are used to click on the taskbar, that doesn't help, the dialog window is completely hidden. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@framework.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@framework.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
