Bug 168259 - Warning about "alien formats" has lost the ability to easily avoid seeing it again
Summary: Warning about "alien formats" has lost the ability to easily avoid seeing it ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Heiko Tietze
URL:
Whiteboard: target:26.2.0
Keywords: bisected, regression
Depends on:
Blocks: Save Dialog-UX
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Reported: 2025-09-02 21:50 UTC by Justin L
Modified: 2025-09-03 20:36 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Screenshot 26.2 macOS (298.53 KB, image/png)
2025-09-03 07:34 UTC, Heiko Tietze
Details
Screenshot 7.6 macOS (300.73 KB, image/png)
2025-09-03 07:35 UTC, Heiko Tietze
Details

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Description Justin L 2025-09-02 21:50:37 UTC
When saving as a .DOC format, a warning dialog asks for confirmation that you want to save to the non-default file format.

Historically, that dialog very helpfully contained a checked box "Ask when not saving in ODF or default format".

But starting with LO 25.8, this simple way of disabling a common (and rather useless/confusing) warning was lost. Now the user needs to know that the setting is buried under "Tools - Options - Load/Save - General".

This started with 25.8 commit 7f4901ded76fa3f3dffaef2d8f68d5c4803d98a2
Author: Heiko Tietze on Fri Jan 24 15:29:10 2025 +0100
    More appealing design for alientformat warn dialog
    Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/180713

There was no bug report tied to this change, and no comment indicating why an existing useful feature has suddenly been removed.
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2025-09-03 07:34:03 UTC
Created attachment 202671 [details]
Screenshot 26.2 macOS

You mean to (re)add a customizable checkbox? Don't remember why I removed it but adding it shouldn't be a problem since https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/184972
Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2025-09-03 07:35:40 UTC
Created attachment 202672 [details]
Screenshot 7.6 macOS
Comment 3 Commit Notification 2025-09-03 11:17:16 UTC
Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/6afd17ac396f7d96800c70a37aaa8beb036c01a6

Resolves tdf#168259 - Add "Show Again" checkbox to SaveAs query

It will be available in 26.2.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 4 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2025-09-03 20:36:54 UTC
Why not use the same label as before for the checkbox? "Show again" is not very clear. End user will ask: Show again what?

Best regards. JBF