[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 115609] FILEOPEN - problem opening multiple text files in calc

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115609

Peter Rich <prich at earthling.net> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Peter Rich <prich at earthling.net> ---
Hi again,

I am now using 6.0.3 and have found that there has been some change in
behaviour but the problem has not been completely fixed.  I thing the best
solution is for me to give a full sequence of the events where this problem
makes itself evident.

I have a situation where I add data to a spreadsheet from 10 text (comma
delimited) files.  The sequence is:

Open first spreadsheet (let's call it S1).

Run a macro in S1 which constructs 10 comma delimited text files from more
verbose text files created earlier by another process.

Select file open and within that single file open window select the 10 text
files - let's call these files T01 thru T10.

Click Open (this is where it gets messy).

A new BLANK window is displayed (titled LibreOffice 6.0) and overlaying this is
the parameters window for the first text file (T01).  I can move this blank
window to a place on screen where I want it to be placed but the parameters
window disappears and I must select the original file (S1) to get the
parameters window back to the front - there is no panel tab for the parameters
window.

Click on OK (in parameters window) and the cycle starts again.  The particular
file window (in this case T01) opens at its 'original' position - NOT the place
to which I moved it 

A new parameters window appears with a blank window behind it (as in 2 steps
back).

This cycle continues till all files are opened.

I generally place S1 at the top left of the screen.  The file T01 is placed
directly over S1 then T02 thru Txx are placed in steps down and right till the
bottom of the screen is reached THEN all the remaining files Tyy thru T10 are
jammed into the top left corner of the screen.  This feature may be part of the
Mint/Cinnamon GUI.

The overall result of this is that to get a logical layout of the windows on
screen I need to move all 10 'secondary' windows.

The other oddity with the new system is that the parameters window for each of
the text files appears in the same place (ie it is apparently locked to S1) on
screen where previously it would move with the new Txx file (ie step down and
right between files).  

There have been improvements made after my original report but the system still
seems to be clumsy compared with what it was like earlier in 5.x.x.

Peter

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