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turtles
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 Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:41 pm Post subject: How would you like Libreoffice to open your text files ? |
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Say your working in Libreoffice draw, writer or calc and you want to open another text file either a .csv, .tsv or .txt.
Would you prefer Liberoffice
1) Open the .txt file with writer and open spreadsheet files .csv & .tsv with calc
2) (Current behavior) open the file with whatever libreoffice component your working in, so if your in writer and open a .csv it will look as if you opened it in a text editor like nano.
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Zucca
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| Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:17 am Post subject: |
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3) pop-up dialog asking which LO component to use to open the file
| Code: | NBLK-WAX9X / # qlist app-office/libreoffice | fgrep usr/bin
/usr/bin/libreoffice
/usr/bin/lobase
/usr/bin/localc
/usr/bin/lodraw
/usr/bin/lomath
/usr/bin/loimpress
/usr/bin/loweb
/usr/bin/lowriter
/usr/bin/lofromtemplate
/usr/bin/loffice
/usr/bin/unopkg
/usr/bin/soffice |
Although (at least) with full DE, users set certain files to be opened with certain programs.
If I had those two choices you listed, I'd prefer LO to pen tsv, csv, etc, with LO calc.
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turtles
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| Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Zucca wrote: | 3) pop-up dialog asking which LO component to use to open the file
| Code: | NBLK-WAX9X / # qlist app-office/libreoffice | fgrep usr/bin
/usr/bin/libreoffice
/usr/bin/lobase
/usr/bin/localc
/usr/bin/lodraw
/usr/bin/lomath
/usr/bin/loimpress
/usr/bin/loweb
/usr/bin/lowriter
/usr/bin/lofromtemplate
/usr/bin/loffice
/usr/bin/unopkg
/usr/bin/soffice |
Although (at least) with full DE, users set certain files to be opened with certain programs.
If I had those two choices you listed, I'd prefer LO to pen tsv, csv, etc, with LO calc. |
Yeah that is a good option thanks.
Make it a configurable mime-type setting.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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Gnome and KDE should have an Open With option if you use the file manager. I think you can use the console to run your desired component as well. Choosing between 1 or 2 does not make sense as a persistent solution.
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turtles
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| Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| logrusx wrote: | Choosing between 1 or 2 does not make sense as a persistent solution.
Georgi |
I am genuinely curious if the current behavior is beneficial to anyone, are there any use cases for #2?
Do you ever use that and not think its a bug or quirk?
For example your composing your finest prose in 'writer' so libreoffice writer is the active window.
And now you need to quickly refer to some .csv data
file ->open dialog will open the .csv in 'writer' no matter what you do when writer is active.
Would that ever be useful in some way?
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