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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 11 22:04:55 +0000 2007 ------- > some users have foreign file format as default for saving, so implementing > this change should not adversely affect them. Understood. Should an application allow a naive user to shoot herself in the foot? I feel strongly that "open/save" represents a contract with the user guaranteeing that their work will be preserved. As far as I can see, this is only true in general for ODF, however it may be true for other formats, depending on what features you use. Ideally, OOo could disable features not supported for the format of an "open"ed file. Difficult to do. One way to approach this would be to make the default config strictly safe, but allow the user to easily add formats to the "open/save" pathway. This reconfiguration is where the warning about potential loss of data would be shown--only once--and then the user could agree to take responsibility. Since this is a one-time occurrence, the warning could be presented more clearly than with the cryptic one-liner we have now. Other approaches could be discussed. My personal feeling is that it is a mistake to encourage users to do this. Round-tripping documents in a foreign format is almost guaranteed to generate file compatibility problems at some point, and when that happens, it only looks bad for OOo and the OOo user. But I respect the reality that people want to do it anyway. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
