Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 76708
Draw/Impress: Drag & Drop of Graphics from Desktop to Presentation Creates Linked Image
Last modified: 2018-03-29 12:31:29 UTC
A drag & drop from a file view/desktop should not create a linked image inside the presentation by default. File size limitations are gone and media sizes are nearly unlimited today too. Even USB memory sticks are that kind of large too. If inserted using the dialog the image will be copied too. This problem was reported by two Sun user experience co-workers creating presentations. The link dialog was unknown to them, so one of them inserted all Graphics from scratch again... Therefore please change the current behavior when a Drag & Drop from a file view/desktop view will be performed to a presentation/drawing to a copy with the correct copy cursor (with plus sign inside the box). Writer already handles this in the described way, but shows a wrong move cursor.
cc WG.
agree, reassigned
Accepted.
This sounds like a reasonable feature that should not be to hard to implement. Can you please supply a specification for it?
I do not think that we need a specification for this change. This issue is more a bug than an enhancement. We have to change - the cursor to a copy cursor (the one with the plus sign) - and change the default action to copy for the dropped image.
Retargeted to OOo 2.4.
Retargeted to 3.0 due to time constraints.
Target changed.
*** Issue 76103 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Reset the assignee to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".
I can confirm this on Impress 4.1.5 - but only as intermittent - 2 cases in 50 dragged images. Method to reproduce: 1 Drag a 2,000 x 953 pixel JPG file from folder to Impress slide. Right-click > Position ..., to locate it precisely. 2 Repeat 39 times to create presentation with 40 slides. Some slides have two smaller images as well. Expected result: All images will be inserted as embedded images. Actual result: Two of the images were inserted as linked. 3 Move folder containing JPG files. Result: 1. Impress shows all other images, but does not show two images (slide 3 and slide 22). 2. Slide 22 also has two small images. Both are shown. Just the large one is missing. 3. The error message says the missing images are on the same path as the presentation is currently located.