Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: configure external image editor

Hola Pedro  : )

On Mon, 2 May 2016 06:46:00 -0700 (MST), Pedro escribió:

P> Apparently LibreOffice simply opens the image with the program
P> associated to the image type (could be png, jpg, etc) on your user
P> preferences (at the OS level)
P> This means that the menu option is not clear.

Yeap.
 
P> In fact the current "Edit with External Tool..." option seems like an
P> incomplete work. Even if you do Edit the image with the external program,
P> you will have to reinsert the edited image manually because simply
P> closing the external editor will not do that (as seems to be implied by
P> the menu option).

So it seems, yes.


P> Therefore you have two options: you could consider this a Bug and request
P> the menu option to be renamed to the more accurate text "Open with
P> associated external program" OR you could do an Enhancement Request and
P> ask the developers to add an option to LibreOffice where the user
P> defines the path to an external editor (e.g. Gimp) which is actually
P> used for editing.

Since I found the option in the menu this second behaviour is what one would
expect. I think however that it would somehow bloat the program with
something not really needed: much simpler is advising the user to prepare
the image before inserting it in the doc.

So after looking up the possible bug report in bugzilla,  finding
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/11669/how-to-set-image-external-editor/
I followed your advice and added a comment to
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51096
which is already almost 4 years old ...

P> Of course the second option involves a lot more work because it not only
P> requires to add that option to the Options dialog but would also require
P> that after editing the image, the modified image would be updated in the
P> document...

Yes, and it would result in bloating.

P> Curiously having an "Edit with External Tool..." option would seem that
P> there should be an Edit option (where LibreOffice's own Draw would used
P> as the logical Internal Tool)

It's the reasonable thing to do.

P> Maybe in the future?

Thanks a  lot, Pedro.
Gracias, Pedro.

Felipe  : )

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