Bug 59956 - LibO FILEOPEN dialog with unclear path pane function
Summary: LibO FILEOPEN dialog with unclear path pane function
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
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Master old -3.6
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: LO-File-Dialog
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Reported: 2013-01-28 05:54 UTC by Rainer Bielefeld Retired
Modified: 2025-01-04 03:16 UTC (History)
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Description Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2013-01-28 05:54:20 UTC
Steps how to reproduce [Reproducible] with server installation of  "Version 4.1.0.0.alpha0+ (Build ID: 2823789bec0c029d9714aff0ed65923e23177ef) TinderBox: Win-x86@6, Branch:master, Pull Time: 2013-01-24_22:52:49" ENGLISH UI / German Locale  on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) with LO41 Masters User Profile:

1. Launch LibO
2. If necessary: Menu 'Tools -> Options -> LibO -> General - 
   Use LibO Files open/save Dialogs <ok>'
3. Menu 'File'
   > File menu opens, shows a path in the pate at the top matching with 
     selected path in 'Places' pane
4. Click into path pane at the top
5. Try arrowup / arrowdown keys
   > you can "scroll" through several paths, what are similar to the ones 
     that can be seen in the 'File name' pane (check this later), not
     only paths, also document names shown
6. With an arbitrary, but not step 3 contents in Path pane: <Enter>
   Expected: Title pane contents changes to show files in selected path
             or anything else useful
   Actual: Error message " .... unknown or does not exist"

This "scroll" function for path pane seems useful for nothing?
Looks similar to view of title pane due to "Bug 59504 - LibO FILEOPEN dialog with missing "recently opened documents" pulldown", where the pulldown button is missing, but a pulldown button here would be useless as long as the selection has no function at all.

This problem already started when we got the new dialog somwhere between 3.5 and 3.6 in the old 3.6 Master
Comment 1 Jorendc 2013-07-02 22:04:12 UTC
I can confirm this is quite unclear and not that useful (to me). Marking as NEW.
With up and down arrow I 'scroll' through recently used documents. Click enter result in error: '<path+filename> is not a directory.'


Kind regards,
Joren
Comment 2 A (Andy) 2014-10-02 09:16:11 UTC
reproducible with LO 4.3.2.2 (Win 8.1)

To scroll up or down only selects recently used files and if you then press the Enter key an error message returns "<file> does not exist", but the file is existing.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2015-10-14 19:56:36 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2019-05-14 02:56:16 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Svatopluk Vít 2021-03-19 13:45:22 UTC
This bug is still present in
Version: 7.1.1.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: fe0b08f4af1bacafe4c7ecc87ce55bb426164676
CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19042; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: cs-CZ (cs_CZ); UI: cs-CZ
Calc: threaded
Comment 6 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-01-04 09:01:45 UTC
Reproduced in:

Version: 7.5.0.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 77cd3d7ad4445740a0c6cf977992dafd8ebad8df
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded

Affects Linux too:

Version: 7.5.0.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 77cd3d7ad4445740a0c6cf977992dafd8ebad8df
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2025-01-04 03:16:35 UTC
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