Description: When I initially open LibreOffice, I see a list of all my recently edited files. This is a great convenience. However, once I open a document, the File>Open>Recent documents list is restricted to the current doc file type. This often excludes the recent documents I wish to edit. This is frustrating as it requires me to navigate the file system to locate the file I wish to edit. I suggest that the list should contain all of the recent documents. If it's felt there is an advantage to the limited list, I propose that the list could be divided to present the matching file types first and the rest below. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a Recent documents list with multiple different document file types by editing several documents of different types. Then close and save all of them. 2.Open LibreOffice and select one document from the recent files displayed. 3.Use the File>Open>Recent documents list and notice that only files of the same type as the one currently being edited are listed. Notice also files initially listed in step 2 which do not match the current file type are not listed. 4.Figure out how to open one of the files not listed. Notice how inconvenient it is. Actual Results: File>Open>Recent documents list only shows files of the same type as the one currently being edited. Expected Results: File>Open>Recent documents list shows all the recent files like were displayed when LibreOffice was initially started. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: The software should have make it easy to open all recent files. I looked through the Tools>Options and did not find a setting to alter this behavior. Version: 24.8.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 48a6bac9e7e268aeb4c3483fcf825c94556d9f92 CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
🤔 never saw this. Which file format do the files have? Can you attsch one please or does this also happen e.g. with odt files?
Created attachment 197961 [details] Before Recent file list before opening a doc
Created attachment 197962 [details] After Recent file list after opening a doc
See 2 attachments. BEFORE & AFTER Notice the long list of files before a doc is opened and then the short list after opening. The AFTER list is obviously limited to only recent files of the same type. If I'm editing a Writer doc, I cannot access the recent list for Calc or whatever other kind. Check out the steps to reproduce and try it for yourself.
1. Reservation: If this is adopted, it shouldn't be "current doc file type", but those files which were opened using the current module. Thus for Writer it might be DOC's, DOCX's but also PDFs if we used Writer to opejn them. 2. If I can still get the "mixed" list in the Start Center, I'm ok with this change. 3. Another possibility would be to have some sort of custom control in the submenu which toggles a filter (i.e. all-items vs just-same-type) - so that we get the "best of both worlds". But that might be considered overkill and would require developer effort.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 161725 ***