https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41442
Summary: Control File Locking from Options
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Libreoffice
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Add an option in the options dialog to control file locking.
Rationale.
There are a reasonable number of posts on the web asking about how to disable
or control OO file locking, under windows, linux, etc.
Some people have problems with locks preventing them from accessing documents.
I (and most likely some others) do not wish to have the lockfiles themselves
because they clutter directories and get copied to backups and release
directories if not manually removed.
While there are supposedly methods to control file locking using environment
variables, I and others can't get them to work.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=131492
Even if they worked, I believe environment variables are a poor way to control
functionality. This feature is in the same class of features as autosave, which
is controlled via the options dialog.
There are good reasons for using lock files, especially within multi-user
environments. But there are good reasons why some people don't want them, which
is why the lock-controlling environment variables exist.
Here are my suggestions.
Add the option to either of these dialogs:
Tools->Options->LibreOffice->General.
Tools->Options->Load/Save->General.
Option 1: (My choice).
File Locking.
Tickbox "enable file locking" (on by default).
Deselecting this prevents the _creation_ and checking of lock files.
Option 2: (If for some reason people actually want to create the lock files but
not use them as locks, no idea if anybody actually wants this, but some
programs do this).
File Locking.
Tickbox "create lock-files" (on by default).
Deselecting this prevents the _creation_ of lock files.
Tickbox "check lock-files" (on by default), possibly greyed out if "create lock
files" is disabled.
Deselecting this prevents checking of lock files when opening.
This should be a fairly quick enhancement to write, as the functionality exists
via environment variables.
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