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title="UNCONFIRMED - FILEOPEN: "File > Recent documents" and Toolbar Open recent button dropdown arrow menu should show filetypes relevant to the current application"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130508">130508</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>FILEOPEN: "File > Recent documents" and Toolbar Open recent button dropdown arrow menu should show filetypes relevant to the current application
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>UI
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>nekohayo@gmail.com
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<pre>When I hit the "⯆" arrow next to the Open button on the toolbar, I am presented
with a list of 25 "recent documents".
The problem is that when I'm in Calc (or just recently launched Calc because I
want to open a recently used spreadsheet quickly without going through my file
manager), I care only about spreadsheets, and yet Calc shows me the 25 most
recent documents regardless of whether they are spreadsheets or not. So out of
25 items, maybe 20-23 are Writer (.odt) files that are just cluttering up my
view.
Conversely, the same can probably also be said of Writer, Impress, etc.
Typically when I am in Writer I care about text documents, not the rest.
There are two approaches I can imagine to solve this:
- Filtering the "recent documents" menu to fill the 25 entries with only
entries relevant to the application type it is called from
- Alternatively, if you still want to have your cake and eat it too: use two
columns in the menu, populated with 10 (or more) entries each. Indeed,
<a href="https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkMenu.html">https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkMenu.html</a> (don't know about other
APIs) lets you have multiple columns. You could therefore have a layout with
some *bold* headers, such as:
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| *Recent spreadsheets* | *Other recent documents* |
| 1. Foo | 1. lalala.odt |
| 2. Bar | 2. sales pitch.odp |
| 3. Baz | 3. TPS report.docx |
| 4. Marketing budget | 4. War and Peas.odt |
| | 5. Tools Story.odt |
| | etc. |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Clear List |
| ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Open Template... | Open Remote File... |
----------------------------------------------------------------
These two approaches would have the advantage of being able to show MORE
application-relevant file choices, rather than having them buried/outweighted
by other file types.
If however you strictly want to retain a single menu column with all-file-types
in it, there are other solutions, probably less appealing for the user:
- A checkbox in the menu for "[x] Show only documents relevant to the current
application"
- Using a different color (or bold type) to differentiate the documents for the
current application vs the ones meant for other LibreOffice applications to
open.</pre>
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