Bug 34694 (Error-Messages)

Summary:	[META] Improve usability of error messages
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Rainer Bielefeld Retired <LibreOffice>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	barta, bfo.bugmail, thomas.lendo
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.3.1 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112521
Whiteboard:
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:	34695, 40144, 56952, 58541, 59271, 59756, 61621, 62879, 65201, 79433, 87937, 89313, 91771, 93517, 98245, 98556, 103214, 104307, 112279, 113033, 120310, 123343, 124925, 125019, 129258, 131800, 143771, 154625, 159765, 40244, 46520, 51145, 53530, 57799, 60226, 69040, 72918, 94334, 95747, 95847, 101673, 106731, 112236, 116862, 120513, 120603, 123144, 124197, 126423, 137878, 138662, 157650
Bug Blocks:	108628

Description Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-02-24 21:47:43 UTC

This is a Meta Bug to collect Bugs concerning useless error messages. 
To add a problem here please insert the Bug No of the original Bug report in "Depends on:" and please leave a short comment here.
In the original reports please attach screenshots and suggestions what additional information you expect.

Assigned to me for now, may be someone wants to take over?

Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-02-24 22:21:55 UTC

Nominate: Bug 34695 - Contribute concrete hints concerning problems with document instead of "General Error".
We already had a good solution in OOo 1.1.4

Comment 2 bfoman (inactive) 2013-05-16 12:58:18 UTC

Considering recent events please reassign it to the default assignee and change its status to NEW.

Comment 3 tommy27 2013-11-24 13:18:53 UTC

did it.

Comment 4 retired 2013-11-24 14:01:09 UTC

Not sure if meta bugs are so useful if the only include a hand full of bugs. Why not include "ErrorMessage" in the bug description? Then anybody working on that can display all bugs in the browser, and do a browser search for "ErrorMessage".

Not sure if finding the meta ticket is any faster than that.

Comment 5 bfoman (inactive) 2013-11-25 15:52:10 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> Not sure if finding the meta ticket is any faster than that.

IMHO it is more about bugs management than search speed. If you have many bugs with dependencies (like this one for example https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=0) this can help developers to fix them one by one starting at the lowest level of the dependency tree.

Comment 6 Thomas Lendo 2017-05-20 19:52:59 UTC

*** Bug 40821 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***