Grant Gorddard 11:42 2005-10-09: >Hi there OpenOffice.org ideas team, > >I have a suggestion. Could the auto-save be turned on with a default value of >15 min without prompts as default upon installation. It's a normal thing that >the majority of people would use and if people don't like it for some reason >they can turn it off.
NO thank you. Not *any* program I use have austosave by default. And I use programs from a lot of different vendors. Autosaving as default without even warning, if writing to the same document namne, will sometimes lead to old document I start from being irrevocably overwritten by the newer version. It all depends on what you are used to. Especially as different programs perform autosave differently, to same file, other file, or incrementally: If the user do not set it up herself, he will not know what is happening. This may lead to either overwriting of a file that the user do not want overwritten, or several files generated that the user do not know what to do with. One solution would that autosave automatically happens to a different filename. One system i have worked on did autosave to an incremental finename, like autosave23, autosave24, autosave 25, etc. But that latter consumes lot of disk space and CPU if document is large. -I am speaking about autosave in general. Basically I and many other hate programs that autodestructs documents, especially withput warning. Best is of course to learn to save new version after every large edit. And/Or enable the autosave yourself so you know what that means in th ecurrent program. A couple speciality programs I use are really terrible "crashers". > This is important for new / computer illiterate type people who don't know > how to use all the options. If they've used MS Word before (which does have > it enabled by default on installation) OOo shall not do irregular things just because MSWord do! > then they expect useful features like these to be already 'turned on' - else > the first time they find out it's not enabled is once they've lost 2hrs of > work - then it's a bad first impression with the software. Recent version of OOo2 never crashed on me, and earlier beta did reconstruct the file correctly after crash. Besides, it is sometimes useful to go back to a completely separat manual save of a large work where i can retrieve paragraphs i later deleted, and even much later regretted deleting... ;) IMHO. >Otherwise maybe there should be a nice wizard that launches on the first use >to setup the user profile for popular functions. Yes, maybe it could ask how the user wants it but there are a *lot* of settings, so users might think it is too complicated. Or have quick selections to set it up like MSWord2000/MSword97/etc versions... Pagemaker/ KOffice, versions x, y... whatever, but that would also be a mess. Please do not complicate OOo! /Morgan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
