https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166175
Bug ID: 166175
Summary: Need mechanism for indicating which page of a document
to use for a thumbnail
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 25.8.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: eyalr...@gmx.com
In some contexts, there is a need to display a thumbnail image for a given
document; particularly, in the start center, and conceivably (even if not
currently) in file open dialogs, in the template management dialog, and outside
of LO itself - in file manager / explorer applications which use or generate
thumbnails.
Let us assume for the sake of this bug that the thumbnail is always a page of
the document, or has been chosen/configured to be a page of the document.
Document authors may not wish for the first page to be used as the Thumbnail.
Example: A Writer document may have a near-empty page with a motto, or some
meta-data, before a title page; a multi-page drawing may have a few pages of
separate components followed by a diagram of a composite system; etc.
However, currently and in the Start Center - it is always the case that the
first page gets used.
I believe the right place for an indication of what to use for a thumbnail is
in the document itself - another piece of meta-data like Author and Keywords
and such, even if not necessarily a free text field. But - I've made this bug
wider that that particular suggestion in case others have a different
perspective on this matter.
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