Re: [libreoffice-users] weirdness in save dialogue box

On 31/07/2023 01:09, Philip Jackson wrote:
> On 29/07/2023 20:07, Steve Edmonds wrote:
> > On 29/07/23 19:32, Mike Scott wrote:
> > > On 25/07/2023 21:17, Steve Edmonds wrote:
> > > > On 25/07/2023 22:17, Mike Scott wrote:
> > > > > On 24/07/2023 17:39, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote:
> > > > > > Just out of curiosity, at any time did you receive a "Confirm 
> > > > > > File Format" window and unchecked the "Ask when not saving in ODF 
> > > > > > or default format" dialog?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > An error in this function might react oddly, even though unlikely.
> > > > >
> > > > > The "Confirm File Format" window only (and always) pops up when a 
> > > > > non-odf format is picked from the drop-down box in the 'Save As' 
> > > > > dialogue. "Ask when not saving in ODF..." is set in the LO options 
> > > > > and re-appears (set) in the "Confirm format" window.
> > > > >
> > > > > The odd thing today is that on this machine at least, I can't 
> > > > > provoke the erroneous behaviour... I must have just clicked "Save 
> > > > > As" 30 or more times, and all works perfectly. Would fail 
> > > > > regularly when I last posted. The machine has just been rebooted 
> > > > > though... surely that can't affect things!
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks to you and to all for comments.
> > > > Yesterday I observed the behaviour you described, just once, first 
> > > > time in a few years since the bug saving with file names containing 
> > > > multiple '.'s (i.e. API12.578.PT100SB.odt) was fixed. This time 
> > > > also I had a file name suggested in the "Save As" Name field, no 
> > > > extension showing, file type .odt selected and LO saved the file 
> > > > without any extension.
> > > > I couldn't repeat it. I have no idea what logic is involved.
> > >
> > > Hmm the gremlins persist - my last email seems not to have made it 
> > > to the list.
> > >
> > > First, in answer to a query, the dialogue box style is set to system 
> > > not LO's own. But as, today, I can't provoke the behaviour at all, I 
> > > can't say whether the choice of style affects matters.
> > >
> > > And the text of my last email, telling of a very odd thing, was as 
> > > follows (apologies if anyone's already seen this):
> > >
> > > ===
> > >
> > > Thanks for the comment; similar I guess.
> > >
> > > The craziest thing today though. Having tried and failed to make my 
> > > desktop fail again, I've just tried my rather slower laptop. The 
> > > dialogue box briefly flashed up something I couldn't make out, so I 
> > > set a screen recorder running. Serious weirdness is evident.
> > >
> > > When I do the 'Save As', the dialogue box comes up. At one point as 
> > > I step through frame-by-frame, the main area (the panel with a list 
> > > of file names on disk) is empty, and the save as file name box at 
> > > the top contains the highlighted file name, no type.
> > >
> > > At the next frame, the main area is populated, and the filename box 
> > > now contains the name plus highlighted type - which is the bad 
> > > behaviour I have noted.
> > >
> > > I should add, it took a couple of tries to get it to happen.
> > >
> > > I can't imagine what's going on internally to do this. And seemingly 
> > > randomly at that.
> > >
> > > Maybe the gremlins are getting restless? :}
> > >
> > > ===
> > If it happens again, try the LO file dialogue. I had do do this a 
> > while back for a period where the KDE dialogue was acting badly under 
> > LO.
> The last two responses (Mike and Steve) mentioned dialogs - system and 
> LO. That was something I hadn't considered so I just checked what I'm 
> using.
>
> In my UbuntuStudio LTS 2204 with KDE Plasma desktop, I'm using every 
> day LO's own dialog boxes. Not thro a specific choice but because it 
> never occurred to me to do otherwise. And as I've said in a couple of 
> posts to this thread, I've never experienced the OP's issue although 
> 'save as' is part of my daily routine.
>
> So I just changed the setting - I deselected the use LO open/save 
> dialogs and then tried a 'save as'. The suggested filename was then 
> complete with the odt suffix.  I re-selected the LO open/save dialogs 
> and tried again - the suggested filename was without the odt suffix.  
> So it seems that using system dialogs does play a part in this 
> affair.  And my distro now uses the KDE desktop whereas for years it 
> was XFCE.
I just switched from the KDE file manager (Dolphin) to the LO file 
load/save dialogues, there is definitely an issue with LO when using 
Dolphin that is not evident with other apps using Dolphin.
Philip, are you using LO from their site or an Ubuntu packaged version.
Mike, you say both machines are Mint, MATE or Xfce? Did you install from 
a PPA or the LO website.

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