Paul wrote: > It is always good to hear stories, both good and bad... > >> 1) I feel that items in the Recent Documents list should only be there / >> selectable if they exist. > Both from OOo's perspective and PC's, the file is still there. It is > saved to a directory. It is up to the user to then determine when the > /tmp directory is cleaned. > > In fact I've just tried to replicate your actions, and a .sxw file > opened from the web, doesn't appear in my 'recent documents'.
This file is read via http protocol, but the mail attachment is read from the file system. OOo does not put files read via http into the Recent Documents lists but of course it does so with documents read from the file system. >> 2) When a file is opened from the browser or even email client, and the user >> chooses to close the window, they should be warned that they could lose the >> information if they don't "save as" first > Another good suggestion, but again, since the browser/email client has > saved it to the file system (admitedly into a temp area) it could be > understood that it is unnecessary to reask the user. The solution would be if OOo could recognize that the files is provided by an e-mail client. This would be even more helpful because then OOo automatically could open it in "read only" mode, thus preventing that the user modifies the file, saves it and then loses all of his changes. Unfortunately it's not possible to do this for all clients because without any further integration most of them open attached files in the same way as their operating system does. I would do the following: write a simple application that receives the file to open from the command line and then calls OOo to open that file in "read only" mode. Then register this application to handle OOo files in your mail client and it should work as desired. The implementation of such an application should be quite trivial. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
