hide / re-locate legacy export formats Background: When a user uses save-as, we present a list of potential export filters in the drop-down, many of which are obsolete and unhelpful. We should add a check-box or other method to the file-picker (defaulting to on) to hide these. We should do this for the OpenOffice 1.0 pre-ODF formats, and legacy MS Office formats (e.g. Word 95 and 6.0 formats). The file pickers are implemented per platform, and live in: fpicker/source/ - for gtk+ perhaps we could use the file type expander for the legacy formats. The UNO interface to export filters is built around UnoFilterEntry records which is just a string pair; misc code-pointers: sfx2/source/dialog/filedlghelper.cxx (addFilters) - gets data from + filters/source/config/cache/filterfactory.cxx (createSubSetEnumerationByQuery) + which gets its data ultimately from filter fragments eg. filter/source/config/fragments/filters/StarWriter_5_0.xcu + which will need a new Flag annotation I suspect. sfx2/source/dialog/filtergrouping.cxx (appendFiltersForSave) Possibly we can mangle some annotation for the filter into the filter string - this would be the lowest touch change. Skills: C++, basic UNO, grokking several files at once.
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adding LibreOffice developer list as CC to unresolved EasyHacks for better visibility. see e.g. http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/minutes-of-ESC-call-td4076214.html for details
Boldly marking this as fixed: Bryan Quigley did a lot of awesome work on this.
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