Bug 73218 - START CENTER: no file extensions displayed - cannot distinguish between file types
Summary: START CENTER: no file extensions displayed - cannot distinguish between file ...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.2.0.0.beta2
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2014-01-02 10:42 UTC by Milos Sramek
Modified: 2014-02-24 17:25 UTC (History)
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Description Milos Sramek 2014-01-02 10:42:25 UTC
The new start center shows icons and names of the recent files. A nice feature. 

Current status:
Start Center in LO42 does not show file extensions, which is for me very annoying:
1. I often convert files: in such a case two icons with the same names are displayed - I do not know, which is which
2. I do not know meaning of all icons, so I do not know type of the file.

Thus, I have to open the file to find out. 

Suggested solution:
This can be easily solved by keeping the extension. Eventually, if some users really like hidden extensions, make it a configurable option - I would recommend that it defaults to 'show'.

For me this is a step towards the Microsoft approach, where they hide the extension (and file formats, too) which I find to be one of their worst features.
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Milos
Comment 1 foss 2014-01-02 11:10:37 UTC
Maybe it would be nice to display a small icon of the document type on each preview (icons from the left column could be used) to indicate which file type the preview document is.

Valid enhancement request. Setting to NEW.


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