Bug 53695

Summary: Native file dialogs do not expand environment variables
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Urmas <davian818>
Component: UIAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA    
Severity: normal CC: heiko.tietze, philipz85, timar74
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.6.1.1 rc   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Bug Blocks: 87860    

Description Urmas 2012-08-19 04:46:27 UTC
It is not possible to use environment substitution, like %TEMP%, in native dialogs. That is very inconvenient.
Comment 1 QA Administrators 2015-01-05 17:50:56 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2016-01-17 20:01:39 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2017-03-06 13:40:50 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-07-21 20:57:37 UTC
(In reply to Urmas from comment #0)
> It is not possible to use environment substitution, like %TEMP%, in native
> dialogs. That is very inconvenient.

I'm assuming you are referring to LO's native dialogs and as %TEMP% works fine in the Windows' native dialogs.

As you mentioned %TEMP%, is this a Windows only bug as using ~/Desktop works fine in LO's native dialogs on Linux.
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2017-12-18 09:43:22 UTC
Closing after one year in NEEDINFO. The internal file dialog is being retired (bug 114484) and we shouldn't put much effort in missing features.