To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=74360 Issue #|74360 Summary|Save/Discard dialog should include "View Changes" ("Sh |ow Diff") Component|Word processor Version|OOo 2.0.4 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|FEATURE Priority|P3 Subcomponent|ui Assigned to|mru Reported by|floid
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 9 06:21:14 +0000 2007 ------- When closing an unsaved document, the user is presented with a familiar dialog: "The document %s has been modified. Do you want to save your changes?" This dialog should include either a "View Changes" option, or less modally, simply include a preview pane. Rationale: Everyone has at some point viewed this dialog and asked, "What changes?" OO.o is somewhat egregious in this regard because invisible metadata changes (possibly including the time of last printing?) can flag the in-memory copy of a document as 'changed.' The undo feature already preserves most of the information required to provide this feature in a meaningful manner. ["Did I make some major change, or did I typo one garbage character before I paged down?"] The confirmation dialog blocks use or review of the window in question anyway, so there is no reason not to devote as much screen real-estate as necessary to the task. [Motivation to keep the warning dialog compact stems from the assumption that context for the most recent change will be visible behind it. This assumption fails when the change has been to metadata or navigation has occurred, as when reviewing a long document or, in today's more stable environments, returning to a forgotten window after hours or days.] Privacy is not impacted ["The boss is a jerk^H^H^H^Hreally nice guy."] if the diff is only exposed by intentional action, such as selecting a button or 'expanding' a preview pane. Security is not impacted to the extent that any mechanism which relies on user error or confusion to preserve an audit log (last-printing metadata) should never have been expected to be reliable anyway. Making metadata changes visible improves its utility by informing the user of its existence. --- This idea has bounced around in interaction-design circles for so long that I'm not sure who to credit it to; it certainly isn't my own invention. However, it did bite me again tonight and I'm surprised that I haven't been able to find an existing request in OO.o's bugtracker. Of course, if expanding the dialog to fit a proper diff, it might be worth exposing a "Save as a new document" option (when the diff is visible) for the common case of a user discovering they've been using an old document as a template. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
