Bug 130620

Summary:	Add help about "Windows Default Apps" button in Tools - Options - LibreOffice - General
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	sdc.blanco
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	sdc.blanco
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	olivier.hallot
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows (All)
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44462
Whiteboard:	target:7.0.0
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	80430, 102187

Description sdc.blanco 2020-02-12 13:19:37 UTC

Tools - Options - LibreOffice - General - LibreOffice File Associations - Windows Default Apps

Pressing the "Windows Default Apps" button has no obvious effect.

Is that a bug?  

(have set OS to Windows - but maybe the problem is more general?)

Version: 7.0.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: 61e1e0413296928d929f99c0f006c6cbbcf4ac40
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI render: GL; VCL: win; 
Locale: en-US (en_DK); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

The documentation:

https://help.libreoffice.org/7.0/en-US/text/shared/optionen/01010600.html

does not give any advice (and could not find anything from searching help).

Comment 1 Ming Hua 2020-02-12 14:26:33 UTC

The WIP release notes for 7.0 on wiki [1] has this item:

Windows Default apps button was added to Options ▸ LibreOffice ▸ General, to call Windows file associations management. This button behaves according to Microsoft file association management policy, which is to open "Default apps" on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1; and to show a message telling user how to open that applet manually in Windows 10. This only works with registered application, so would not work for portable or testing (e.g. beta, when not using WRITE_REGSITRY=1 installation option) releases tdf#44462 (Mike Kaganski, Collabora)

So it's probably expected that the button in daily build version doesn't do anything.

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.0

Comment 2 sdc.blanco 2020-02-12 17:12:38 UTC

Thanks Ming. I will change Component to "Documentation"

Comment 3 Commit Notification 2020-02-14 14:54:39 UTC

Seth Chaiklin committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/0b1d0df74b7b9dc98c18fccd375272f2dbe77256

tdf#130620  add help about File associations