Problem description: Some files take significant time to open. These could be large files or imports of external formats. Current behavior: Currently there is no UI to cancel such opening process. The only way is to kill libreoffice via operating system. Expected behavior: Have a "Cancel" button in file open progress screen which will terminate load. Platform (if different from the browser): Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.04 Chromium/18.0.1025.151 Chrome/18.0.1025.151 Safari/535.19
Also, opening a file should never block UI. See attachment.
Created attachment 61303 [details] UI blocked while XLS opening
This is a UI issue, therefore changed the Component field accordingly. This is an enhancement request, therefore changed the Importance field accordingly. Set Status to NEW, because I can confirm that there is no 'Cancel' button for file opening ;-) Also, pressing ESC or Cmd+. (Cmd+. was the old standard cancel shortcut on MacOS) does not stop the fileopen process. So IMHO this is a reasonable enhancement request; this enhancement would be very useful with large files, esp. with some .doc and .docx file which take very long to open ... (see e.g. bug 39179).
I agree that an "abort" loading of a file would be an useful enhancement. issue is inherited from OOo.
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