https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166835
Bug ID: 166835
Summary: Warn when first introducing an
opened-file-format-incompatible aspect into a document
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Scenario: User opens a non-ODT document for editing, starts making edits, and
at some point introduces something into the document which would be lost when
saving the file in its original format.
Examples:
* An XLSX is edited, and a function is used which MS Excel does not support, or
a chart type it's missing.
* A DOCX is edited, tracked changes are made, and a comment is made on a
tracked change (i.e. not Insert > Comment).
At the moment - the user is none the wiser, until they try to save the
document, and will then be warned that the save will be destructive because of
format limitations.
But by then, it is very late to do something about - some time may have passed,
many such items or aspects may have been introduced, and further editing done
which relies on them. Also, IIANM, the user does not get an exhaustive list of
unsupported aspects/pieces of the document to review.
For that reason I suggest that, when editing a file in a given format, and when
we first introduce something into the document unsupported by the format, we
could alert the user to this through:
* An info-bar
* A pop-up dialog
* Some kind of visual indication in the status bar
this alert could ask the user "do you really want to do XYZ?" Or it could just
tell them that the last change breaks the file format.
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