Re: [libreoffice-users] Ask help about recent directories

Den ons 28 aug. 2019 kl 19:03 skrev jean-francois <
jean-francois.nifenecker@laposte.net>:

> Dave,
>
> Le 28/08/2019 à 06:25, jean-francois a écrit :
> > do you know of LibreOffice dialogs selection option?
> >
> > See Tools > Options > LibreOffice > General, Open/Save dialogues, Use
> > LibreOffice dialogues checkbox.
> >
> > This option replaces the OS Open/Save dialogues with LibreOffice own
> > ones. These have a Preferred Listbox on the left which should be what
> > you're looking for.
>
> Johnny Rosenberg has pointed me that the said option doesn't exist any
> more in the recent LibreOffice versions.

Actually I intended to reply to the group, but I accidentally replied
directly to you, sorry for that, I didn't mean to.

I'm using version 5.4 :(
> I've checked in v.6.2 and, yes, it is not there any more :(
>
> Now this option is carefully hidden in the expert configuration pane (uh?).
>
> Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Advanced, click "Open Expert
> Configuration" button.
>
> In the org.openoffice.Office.Common branch (easiest is to enter "dialog"
> in the search bar at the top), you get a bunch of entries. One of them
> is "Misc" with a property of "UseSystemFileDialog". Set it to False
> (double-click) to get the LibreOffice Open/Save dialogs I was talking
> about.
>
>
> Thanks again to Johnny for debugging my message.

I was just interested to know the same thing as the original poster, so I
tried to follow your suggestion. Thanks to your updated reply I finally
found it and after using the LibreOffice dialogues for a couple of minutes
now I can say that it looks promising. I think I will use LibreOffice's
dialogues from now on. Thanks!



Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg


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> --
> Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux
>
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