To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=75946 Issue #|75946 Summary|Feature Request: Read-only document should be editable Component|framework Version|OOo 2.2 Platform|All URL|http://launchpad.net/bugs/97292 OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|ENHANCEMENT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|code Assigned to|tm Reported by|doko
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Mar 31 07:30:45 +0000 2007 ------- When opening a document from a source such as e-mail in Evolution, the file is a read-only copy. However, sometimes, it is worthwhile to be able to make edits to the document, and then save it as a new file. For example, let’s say someone sends me a spreadsheet with the financials of a company contained in it, and I would like to key in some equations to do some analysis on those figures. As it stands presently, I have to either (a) save the attachment from within Evolution to my home folder and then open it from within OOo or the file manager or whatever, or (b) open the attachment from within Evolution, save a read-write copy of the file, and then proceed to work on it. When an attempt is made to edit the file, OOo pops up a dialog stating that the “Document opened in read-only mode.” Instead, it should probably say something like, “The document you are attempting to edit is read-only. Would you like to work on a copy?” with a yes/no option. If the user selects “Yes,” then OpenOffice could disassociate the document in memory with the one it originally opened on disk, treating the document as an unsaved document without a file name, and then permit the user to go about their business and save the file if they want. I know that for me, I sometimes want to make minor changes to get a number out, and then toss the document away—so saving it as an intermediary file is really not optimal. I know that this is the way it works for files in Writer and Calc. I am assuming that this is the same across the board in all of the portions of OOo. Using fully updated Ubuntu Feisty—so OOo 2.2.0~rc3~oof680m10-0ubuntu3 at the moment. However, this has been a persistent thing—I just never got around to putting the feature request in like I had meant to long ago, considering that the use case for editing data like that did not come up very often. For example, I just opened something from an NNTP feed that was attached—a Microsoft Word document—by double-clicking it from within Evolution. The file doesn’t seem to show up in the output from “lsof”, but it is read-only. If I wanted to edit it, I would have to re-save it, which is fine. In this case, I don’t want to edit the file. However, when I get my grade sheets in, I like to just use the spreadsheet to calculate percentages so I can see where I stand as of those grade sheets. Instead, I either need to open up bc, gcalctool, or resave the document before I can input new formulas. It is just a minor inconvenience, but the more frequently such a situation occurs, the more of a time-eater it gets to be. :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
