[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 115285] [Usability] With the GTK3 FileChooser dialog, simplify mimetype filters and automatically filter files by document type based on the running application

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115285

--- Comment #1 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Jean-François Fortin Tam from comment #0)
> I would also recommend vastly simplifying the choices in the mimetypes
> filtering combobox. Currently there's half a million choices, one for each
> type and one for each specific file format, and it's hard to use: the list
> is incredibly long, not sorted in a way that makes sense, and requires
> scrolling multiple screen heights. Nobody cares about such precision as
> specific file formats (or they would use the filechooser's search feature on
> top of filtering).

This is huge oversimplification based on ignorance. Usually bold statements
like starting with "nobody" or "everybody" are such.

Actually, choosing the right file type allows to make the application to apply
specified import filter to a file (so that some ambiguous cases, like csv named
dat, or xml, etc could be treated as user wants). It is not possible to do that
using broad app-specific filters, because sometimes several filters exist that
all convert to, say, spreadsheet, and only selecting the correct one helps in
difficult cases.

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