[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 74580] FILEOPEN: Add option to disable import dialog when opening a CSV file ( see comment #13)

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74580

--- Comment #30 from Gareth <gareth.adamson@gmail.com> ---
In reply to Comment #29 (from V Stuart Foote)

re. whether a parallel task is needed for the HTML import.

> Importing sheet data from HTML is very much a corner case, in fact a user given a preference 
> shuold be picking TSV or CSV to assure data quality compared to a table pulled from HTML.

Importing a table is one possibility, but you can simply save or generate a
spreadsheet as HTML. It has some advantages over CSV, especially in formatting.

Anyway, it doesn't really matter whether it's a corner case, or what some
developer or discussion participant magisterially thinks users 'should' do. The
fact is that it is an existing use case, in regular use in businesses I have
come across. Calc currently handles it in the same way as importing a CSV
(simplified, since importing HTML is simpler) and I merely point out that it
would be good practice for it to continue to do so, if the way of importing
CSVs changes.

TSV may also be a corner case. I had to look it up. But if Calc currently
handles it in the same way as CSV, yes, it would be good to continue to do so.

> Having the minimally intrusive textimportoptions.ui dialog [1][2][3] appear when opening a 
> non-CSV document, including HTML, into Calc is not the issue here. Rather improving work flows 
> for parsing complex CSV

The dialog is as intrusive as the CSV dialog, in the sense that it appears
every time.

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