| Summary: | Improve the Overwrite File Dialog | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Andrew <rugby471> |
| Component: | UI | Assignee: | Sébastien Le Ray <sebastien-libreoffice> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | LibreOffice, t_fridey |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | Inherited From OOo | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Attachments: |
Mockup of improved look
Fix for alert box content |
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Think your dialog is much clearer. Thank you Andrew, mark as enhancement. Yes, tat would be some great improvement, not only for WRITER BTW, some days ago I read someting about an extension that allows to create backups of OOo documents, as far as I remember creating a copy of the existing document with name like oldname_YYMMDDNo.od*. Unfortunately currently I can't find it. I believe if this issue will be tackled you should think about a third button: File /Filename/ already exists: <Overwrite> <Backup old Version and overwrite> <Cancel> Created attachment 43208 [details]
Fix for alert box content
Provided patch modifies existing dialog as proposed in the mockup.
(From a non-C++ programmer point of view) Looks great Sebastian! Thanks so much :) This patch has been committed marking as fixed |
Created attachment 39921 [details] Mockup of improved look If a user currently tries to overwrite an existing file through File>Save As, they are greeted with a dialog which isn't very useful or user-friendly. First of all, they are told about 'the file', this should be replaced with something more informative, like "A file named '{NAME}'". This way they can quickly see what it is they are trying to overwrite. Secondly, the whole question that the dialog is asking is summarised in one word, 'Overwrite?'. This is not satisfactory, especially given that this change is destructive, the file can't be recovered. This should be replace with a less technical sentence, that is more than a word, such as "Do you want to replace it?". The buttons on the bottom should also be aligned with the left edge of the text. Attached is a mockup with my proposed design (right) against the current dialog (left). Any comments?