(In reply to Tony Pursell from comment #12) > Are you saying that you get LO's Open/Save dialogues even when the option in > Tools > Options > LibreOffice > General is not ticked (which is the default > setting)?
Not sure what option you are referring to. Tools-> Options-> LO-> General is a menu, not an option. And under that there is nothing related to the open/save dialog. There is nothing under Tools-> Options-> Load/Save either. (Vanilla Linux LO 4.3 without KDE/Gnome integration loaded) > I only have experience of Ubuntu Linux and Windows where I always use the > system dialogues. Exactly. That is what 99+% of users will see- KDE or Gnome dialogs. This bug report is about the generic file manager that is built into LO for when KDE or Gnome (or compatible) is not being used. WE are a thin client environment and use IceWM. > When I came to try OpenOffice.org's Open/Save dialogues back in 2010 they > were much more rudimentary and, as far as I can remember, allowed > *immediate* deletion of a file on right click. Yes, that is the generic one this bug references and what we at work are still using (by choice) > I considered this highly dangerous as the normal file deletion routines put > a deleted file into Trash/Rubbish Bin/Recycle Bin and I could see users > unwittingly deleting > files with no way of recovering them, to the detriment of OpenOffice.org's > (and now LO's) reputation. There are lots of Linux programs for which delete means delete (including the command line), although they are not as common as in the past. This is not crazy behavior. File managers that support a trash concept should label that function "trash" or "recycle" or something... not "delete" (but that is a whole other conversation). I agree that new or novice users might not understand that delete means delete, which is why I proposed instead of completely removing a very useful feature, to rename it to sound more dangerous, like "Permanently Delete" or to add a warning, or to add an OPTION to turn it off (and perhaps even make the default for that option be off). Of course most of these novice users will never see or use the built-in file dialog, anyway) > Now that there is a 'Confirm Delete' dialogue, Perhaps on the KDE or Gnome or other dialog that was added, but it wasn't added on the generic/built-in LO dialog. Had they done that instead of completely removing delete, I would have been far less upset. > I would agree with you that > the Delete on right click should have been retained, although I would like > the default action in the 'Confirm Delete' dialogue to be 'Dont Delete'. I could even go for that too. Anything is better than just removing it completely. -- 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/525440 Title: [Upstream] LibreOffice Load/Save dialogue boxes delete files but dont use Trash Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: Fix Released Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: Unknown Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in openoffice.org package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org If, in Tools > Options...> OpenOffice.org > General, you have 'Use OpenOffice.org dialogue boxes' checked, you get dialogue boxes that allow you to right click and Delete. Files deleted like this do not go to the Deleted Items folder. This is dangerous because users can assume the behaviour is the same as in Nautilus. See https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+question/101821 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Feb 21 19:26:09 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1 [modified: var/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/program/services.rdb] ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic SourcePackage: openoffice.org Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686 --- Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.1 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic-pae 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 Tags: lucid Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic-pae i686 UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout fax fuse lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare video To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/525440/+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
