I think that if for some task that may not benefit from multiple selecting may not offer this multiple selection feature, while task that *do* benefit (as inserting pictures or opening multiple documents at once) may have this enabled.
I don't know the especifics of the widget toolkit you're using, but i guess that it has to have a mechanism to enable/disable multiple selection, which may be used for this. Also I know it's not only matter of adding that capability to the file selector and I see this bug not as a trivial task, but it's needed for being more user-friendly. I came across this a lot of times per day (I often need to insert 15 pictures in a document for a weekly report) and something I may do in 3 clicks translates in 45 clicks without this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385989 Title: [Upstream] Can't insert multiple images at once Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: Confirmed Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: Invalid Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org In Writer you can't import several images at once with the file selection dialog. You must to add the images one by one, which is clearly an annoying bug for the usability of the program. Using Ubuntu 9.04 (with IceWM instead of Gnome) and OpenOffice 3.0.1 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=es_SV:es PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=es_SV.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: openoffice.org Uname: Linux 2.6.30-020630rc5-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/385989/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
