RE: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

Lee, I agree with the commenter here.

I think it is also a bug when the Open dialog has a pull-down list that extends beyond the edge of 
the screen.  My understanding is they are supposed to move left, down, or up, to avoid that.  All 
the well-behaved applications I run do that.  In fact, I take advantage of that fact in arranging 
to take screen shots where dialogs and pop-ups are forced inside the frame of the application.

Also, I don't know what the minimum dimension of screen for successful use of LibreOffice might be, 
but the list we're talking about could easily exceed it.  The bigger problem is that it appears to 
be random so folks have no clue that they should perhaps keep looking once they find a likely 
suspect (that happens to not work).

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: lee [mailto:lee@yun.yagibdah.de] 
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 16:31
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Cc: 'Andrew Foss'
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc Major Bug

nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) writes:

> On 2011-06-19, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>
> > Nuno J. Silva [mailto:nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt]  wrote:
> >
> > I see the "Text CSV (*.csv;*.txt)" now.  When I checked the File |
> > Open ... dialog before, the scroll bar was off the right of my display
> > [;<).  That is *way* down there, huh?
>
> It is. Well, it means LibO supports many formats.
>
> But the list is really long, I wonder if someone is thinking about how
> to make it easier to browse (if that's possible).

Just make the list larger, as screen space permits.

It took about 20 years before file selectors finally became reasonably
large (or could be resized) and even remembered their size. Still they
don´t remember their position on the screen and don´t allow you to have
the scroll bars on the left side, so they continue to be a nuisance. Why
can´t developers create good file selectors even after 20 years?

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