https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101160
Aron Budea <ba...@caesar.elte.hu> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW
Summary|When doing Save As or Open, |When doing Save As, there
|I want to be able to see |should be entries with
|the other filenames with |multiple types in "Save as
|file extensions |type" dropdown, similar to
| |Open dialog
Ever confirmed|0 |1
Severity|normal |enhancement
--- Comment #2 from Aron Budea <ba...@caesar.elte.hu> ---
Reply I received in e-mail (reporter could not log in again with their user):
"Right but I don't want to restrict it to one. I want to see more than one.
When I'm in Writer, I want to be able to see all the files which are word
document type files Writer could open - ie. docx, doc, etc. I don't want to
only see odt files because then I can't just see all the editable files in
there. Right now, with Writer doing what it does, from Open I can't see all the
files and from Save As, I can't see what doc or docx files are already in there
so that I give the file a unique name instead of the same name with an odt
extension. If I happen to give it the same name as an old docx or doc file,
then it will look to me later like I resaved the same file in LibreOffice and I
will accidentally delete the corresponding doc or docx file when it is not the
same file and has been erroneously been given the same error name. That creates
problems for people like me who have a billion doc and docx files and are
gradually re-creating some of them to odt files when they get updated. We are
going to want to get rid of the redundant old versions of the files.
I want Writer to be able to be set so it will show all word document type files
which Writer is capable of understanding and opening.
Similarly, I want Calc to be able to be set so it will show all spreadsheet
document type files which Calc is capable of understanding and opening.
Either that, or I want it to be able to just show me ALL the filenames with all
the extensions so I have the opportunity to open whichever ones I want without
going into a file manager every time."
As I mentioned earlier, in Open dialog the dropdown next to the file name lets
you restrict shown files to types that can be opened by certain applications
(Text documents, Spreadsheets etc.).
Regarding saving, that is a valid point. However, it needs to be considered
that if an entry with multiple types are selected in "Save as type" dropdown,
then saving is a bit tricky, since the type has to be determined based on the
extension, and it has to be thought of what should happen if no extension, or
an invalid extension is given.
All in all, setting to NEW, since it is a reasonable enhancement request.
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