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

On 30/07/2023 22:17, Steve Edmonds wrote:
> 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.
It's over a year since I upgraded to UbuntuStudio LTS 2204 and I don't recall whether I just stuck with the 
distro version of LO or downloaded from the LO site - I've done both over the years. When I check "which 
libreoffice" it returns /usr/bin/libreoffice so I imagine I'm using the distro supplied version 
otherwise it would be in /opt/ wouldn't it?

I don't have any trouble with opening Writer or Calc files from Dolphin. I always set up the file 
manager to open files with a single click and it just works fine.

Philip

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