Bug 72471 - StartCenter: display the URL of the recent document selected
Summary: StartCenter: display the URL of the recent document selected
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.2.0.0.beta2
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 72589 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-12-08 11:12 UTC by pierre-yves samyn
Modified: 2013-12-21 06:33 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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UrlInToolTip Screenshot (11.35 KB, image/png)
2013-12-08 12:27 UTC, pierre-yves samyn
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Description pierre-yves samyn 2013-12-08 11:12:24 UTC
Hello

There is no info on the url of a recent document when you move the mouse on his icon in the new startcenter:
- The tooltip displays only the name (but it is already below the icon)
- Except databases, the name has no extension (sometimes difficult to know the type of document. Thumbnail not always sufficient to distinguish)
- The complete url should be displayed in the tooltip (like the drop-down list of Open button in 4.1) and may be in a "status bar" at the bottom of the dialog.

I *very* frequently work on documents with the same name contained in different folders... and it would also be useful to find where did I could save the document :)

Regards
Pierre-Yves
Comment 1 retired 2013-12-08 11:32:38 UTC
Not sure I agree with this. As I prefer a clean UI, I'd rather turn off all mouseovers for those files by default and offer an option to activate that.

Displaying the file URL will display very long mouseover boxes that look ugly. I don't think that's a good route.

Pierre: I'm not sure if having files with identical names is a good idea (even if those are in separate folders. Whenever doing a file search this will lead to very uninformative results.

More thoughts on this?
Comment 2 pierre-yves samyn 2013-12-08 12:26:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Not sure I agree with this. As I prefer a clean UI, I'd rather turn off all
> mouseovers for those files by default and offer an option to activate that.

your choice, not what I want (and we already have too many options) :)

> Displaying the file URL will display very long mouseover boxes that look
> ugly. I don't think that's a good route.

There would be only one tip at a time. As I said this is *already* being used in the Open button (see UrlInToolTip.png screenshot )

> Pierre: I'm not sure if having files with identical names is a good idea
> (even if those are in separate folders. Whenever doing a file search this
> will lead to very uninformative results.

Sorry, this is completely irrelevant

Regards
Pierre-Yves
Comment 3 pierre-yves samyn 2013-12-08 12:27:15 UTC
Created attachment 90453 [details]
UrlInToolTip Screenshot
Comment 4 pierre-yves samyn 2013-12-08 12:29:27 UTC
I would add that this request has been approved on the design list:
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Start-Center-display-the-URL-of-the-recent-document-selected-td4079964.html
Comment 5 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2013-12-08 13:53:15 UTC
This change is already planned: http://go.mail-archive.com/qvh8hI_lOmb_A2ZwOtRezxFHa-A=

I agree, it is important to be able to see the full name of the recent used files in the StartCenter.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 6 retired 2013-12-11 12:56:30 UTC
*** Bug 72589 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 retired 2013-12-18 09:32:36 UTC
Fixed. I see the file path in the latest nightly:

LO Version: 4.3.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 4c539fac018dfd44cd8db52161a8cb930c627da7
TinderBox: MacOSX-x86@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2013-12-18_01:54:50

This is OS X. If this is not working on other platforms with any nightly newer than 2013-12-18 please re-open.
Comment 8 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2013-12-20 19:37:46 UTC
This bug has been fixed in master by this commit : https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commit;h=dd7a3f5fb873b77da326eb8339c2ef9e3bf4fbd1
and in 4.2 by this one : https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commit;h=3943b59c17f6fd8988b4d8c7aebd662ce387a6d6

So set status to resolved/fixed

Best regards. JBF
Comment 9 pierre-yves samyn 2013-12-21 06:33:49 UTC
Hello

Verified on windows 7/64 & Version: 4.2.0.1
Build ID: 7bf567613a536ded11709b952950c9e8f7181a4a

Thank you 
Regards
Pierre-Yves