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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Apr 10 17:47:30 -0700 2006 ------- I think you're very, very wrong about this-- and I think it's going to hurt the free software cause. OO is an application which is being tauted as acceptable for use by the masses, not just the elite. Presumably to further this end, OO has a bloody Clippy reincarnated as a light bulb because some seriously deluded person thinks this is going to help someone. Yet here I've prevented a very real issue for the average user that will and HAS resulted in data loss for new Linux/OpenOffice users. I can think of nothing more grave than inadvertant data loss which could be trivially prevented. Passing the buck to the mail app is simply short-sighted laziness. Mail apps do exactly what they *should* do-- copy the file to the /tmp directory so it can be viewed. If a mail app saves every file viewed somewhere permanent then we'll have cruft. (This, incidentally is what Apple's Mail app does, and lots of cruft results.) You claim this is going to annoy some user who wants to save files to the /tmp directory on purpose. Even granting that such a user exists (I doubt it), how annoyed is he going to be at a warning which is easily turned off? Far, far less annoyed at that warning than he is going to be at the stupid light bulb. This issue has resulted in real, substantial data loss for a number of users. One lost six hours worth of edits to her thesis, because she didn't realize she was working from a copy that she'd opened from a mail app. Her fault? Yes. Did she blame herself? Perhaps, but to me she blamed "Linux" because that wouldn't have happened in Windows. Could an OpenOffice developer prevent this from happening in the future? Easily. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
