Top posted as in _this_ instance that is more appropriate.
My first reaction while still reading this proposal was the same as Noop's.
That is because I had not read the whole proposal yet.
Jean-Baptiste's proposal has great merit. My experience with files that needed
to be available for a Windows user but that I wanted to keep in odf for the
master copy is that I need to _remember_ to save the file twice after each
update. This is because a Save As ... operation is considered to be equivalent
to a Save operation and thus when closing the file OOo does not prompt me to
either Save or Discard my updates. Exporting the file as .doc or .xls gets
around this problem.
I heartily support this proposal.
--
Jim
--On Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:19:49 AM +0200 Jean-Baptiste Faure
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
Current discussions about ODF icons in OOo 3.2.1, let me to make my
position more clear :
1/ I think that OpenDocument Format (ODF) is more important than the
software used to edit the documents.
2/ Obviously OpenOffice.org (Project and software) support ODF very
strongly and this support should be visible in all possible graphical
elements of the software
3/ OpenOffice.org (software) should help, through its functionalities,
the users to understand the importance of the question of the formats of
its documents (data security, independence from the software and its editor)
So I propose to:
1/ remove the possibility to use MS-Office formats as default formats in
OpenOffice.org
2/ remove the possibility of conversion formats by File > Save As... In
other words this menu item should only give the possibility to change
the name of the file and switch to it to edit.
3/ add all formats removed from "File > Save As" to "File > Export".
Indeed I think that the good practice is to always work in ODF and to
chose, if needed, an export format appropriate to the use that the
recipient of the document is supposed to have. If he has only to read
the document then choose PDF and if he has to edit the document and has
only MS-Office then choose a MS-Office format. But, and it is the most
important, in all cases you keep your original in ODF as reference version.
Kind regards
JBF
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