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

On 30/07/2023 21:17, Steve Edmonds wrote:
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> >
> 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.

Mint Mate; versions 21 and (iirc) 20.2 on the lappy.

LO is installed from the relevant ubuntu PPA. This machine (mint 21) 
says (synaptic) 1:7.3.7-0ubuntu0.22.0.4.3, but I think the other machine 
is on LO 6.something (IMBW) from the ub PPA. They have the same issue.

I do find the unpredictability rather concerning. I've just had to hunt 
for a "failing" file, but did find one. 'Save As' consistently (well, 
for the moment anyway!) adds the file extension in the dialogue. I 
switched to LO style dialogue boxes, and they behave as expected (file 
name given, no extension) - switching back to system style dialogues 
restores the wrong behaviour.

BTW, of two files -- an original plus a copy made with Caja (^C and ^V) 
-- they consistently (for now) behave in the two different ways.

Thanks all for more comments. I hesitate to raise a bug report over 
this; for one thing the LO web bug page I found last time pretty 
incomprehensible, but for another it's really not repeatable enough. I'm 
not really sure where to go from here.


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Mike Scott (unet2 <at> [deletethis] scottsonline.org.uk)
Harlow Essex England
"The only way is Brexit" -- anon.


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