[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 74580] FILEOPEN: Add option to disable import dialog when opening a CSV file (see comment #13)

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--- Comment #46 from xzwvt <conundrum950 at riseup.net> ---
This is a major issue. Those saying it is not significant have never
experienced it. Add 100 clicks per day to your ongoing click count and you will
very shortly have a different opinion. It is a known issue in healthcare; an
administrator will add a single required click to the physician workflow.
Analyses have been done multiplying the time it takes for 1 click by the number
of physician-times, per physician, per year, and 1 analysis I saw showed a
billion dollars in healthcare costs in the US for a single added click
(opportunity cost from taking time to do something else, not to mention
significant negative costs from alert fatigue). Frequently there is uniform
criticism by those who bear the cost, and in-appreciation by those who do not,
but everyone who has to face the problem themselves quickly changes their mind.
A keyboard stroke is not as bad as a click, but still a significant problem.
There is development of carpal tunnel and tendinitis from repetitive motions.

With libreoffice, most users will uninstall and use something else without ever
reporting the problem on a bug request website (first being required to
register an account), so the problem is likely greatly underreported. More
persons not using libreoffice because they uninstalled it or stopped using it
is not good for the future of libreoffice.

I am not clear on why I have to have the same CSV import dialog open for the
SAME file. After I have opened a .csv file once and set (or not set, typically)
the import settings for that file, why can it not save the settings for that
exact same file? This would solve the problem for a large number of use cases.

For the users with an ongoing need to open a large number of new .csv files,
why not have a global setting that they can find somewhere in Options that
would allow them to turn off the dialog? Most users will never see this option.

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