Bug 105621 - Start Center: Recent Document Previews should be able to be turned off completely
Summary: Start Center: Recent Document Previews should be able to be turned off comple...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 74834
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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5.1.6.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
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Reported: 2017-01-30 18:37 UTC by Peter
Modified: 2017-01-30 19:51 UTC (History)
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Description Peter 2017-01-30 18:37:44 UTC 
When Starting LO or also when closing the last document I can see the start-center with previews of recent documents shown on the right side.

Unfortunately the previews are so detailed that one can read the content of documents which I'd prefer to hide.

Nevertheless I still like them to be in the dropdown-list of file menu (where no preview is shown, which is fine).

So it would be a huge advantage for privacy to be able to turn off the preview section completely (which is also asked for some times in user's forum - without solution so far).
Comment 1 Peter 2017-01-30 18:43:53 UTC 
Talking about the situation when a colleague or customers is watching my screen
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2017-01-30 19:04:37 UTC 
Setting the "GenerateThumbnail" value to false in expert configuration dialog accomplishes this.

Tools -> Options -> Advanced: Expert configuration... and search for GenerateThumbnail

click the Edit button to toggle the vlaue

OK to exit the dialog, on restart the Thumbnails will be purged but the MRU will remain with default 25 entries.

=-ref-=
bug 61320

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=0035b3218d8652652e62afe89eddfd28a9021b75

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 61320 ***
Comment 3 Peter 2017-01-30 19:12:38 UTC 
I've already have set this value to false.
Nevertheless the previews are still visible on start-center (even if a file does not contain a thumb).
I think we are talking about different things.
Comment 4 V Stuart Foote 2017-01-30 19:28:38 UTC 
Sorry, the Expert configuration value to set is "RecentDocsThumbnail", that eliminates the thumbnails on the Start Center--replacing them with generic ODF icons.

So gets the same behavior on the Thumbnail View pane as if a password was set for the document.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 74834 ***
Comment 5 V Stuart Foote 2017-01-30 19:30:41 UTC 
From https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/20338/ for bug 74834

If Office::Common::History::RecentDocsThumbnail is set to false, no new thumbnails will be created and stored to registrymodifications.xcu. Existing thumbnails in registrymodifications.xcu or the documents will not be read and displayed.
Comment 6 Peter 2017-01-30 19:51:11 UTC 
thanks a lot

it's not yet in 'still' version 5.1.6.2 so maybe I have to switch to Libre Office Fresh