Bug 41776 - Change StartCenter to feature Recent Documents and make new documents a secondary option
Summary: Change StartCenter to feature Recent Documents and make new documents a secon...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.4.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) macOS (All)
: medium enhancement
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: 41774 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 41774
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Reported: 2011-10-13 20:38 UTC by Shad Sterling
Modified: 2013-11-02 08:08 UTC (History)
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Description Shad Sterling 2011-10-13 20:38:59 UTC
The current StartCenter looks like a prompt to pick a document type to create, which is almost never what I want to do when I launch LibreOffice.  I almost always launch LibreOffice to edit an existing document, and most often a document I've edited fairly recently.  Making the StartCenter feature recent documents, with a secondary option to create a new one, would change it from an annoyance to something useful.
Comment 1 Shad Sterling 2011-10-13 20:57:44 UTC
I noticed too late that the StartCenter actually does have a somewhat hidden recent documents menu, but bug #41777 still prevents it from being useful.
Comment 2 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 12:34:40 UTC
[This is an automated message.]
This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it
started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is
changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back
to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases.
Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1

more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Comment 3 Shad Sterling 2012-01-14 16:17:39 UTC
No change in 3.5.0beta2
Comment 4 Shad Sterling 2012-07-14 17:07:06 UTC
No change in 3.5.5.3, but thank you for fixing the additional bug that the Start Center would appear in front of (and hide) the document recovery window.  I was going to suggest that document recovery be merged into the Start Center.
Comment 5 Shad Sterling 2012-12-07 16:14:19 UTC
The problem of Start Center appearing in front of document recovery has returned, so I filed Bug #57987
Comment 6 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2013-11-02 08:00:14 UTC
It is the behavior of the StartCenter in the future LibreOffice 4.2.
So closing as Fixed.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 7 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2013-11-02 08:08:04 UTC
*** Bug 41774 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***