https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167149
Bug ID: 167149
Summary: Make saving view settings to (Flat/) ODF files
optional
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Blocks: 107943, 112703, 117718
When a user saves an ODF or Flat ODF document, LibreOffice currently also saves
a config-item set of "view settings":
<config:config-item-set config:name="ooo:view-settings">
this lets whoever reads the file know which part of the file the file the
saving user was last focusing on, and at what zoom level.
In most cases, this may be of little consequence. However, in some cases, the
saving user may not want to share this information with others. For example,
two parties are negotiating a long contract. The last part of the contract one
party was looking at may indicate to ther other party something they had on
their mind, which they may not want to share.
This is one, privacy-related, reason why saving view information without
informing the user is problematic.
A second reason has to do with the fact, that the saving user may not want a
person opening the file to have their view focused on some particular part of
it, just because the saving user was last looking at it. They may well prefer
that the opening user would see the beginning of the document, as though they
had never seen the document before (which, in fact, is the case).
A third and final reason is that the view settings are application-specific;
and a user may want to save a "universal" ODF file free of application-specific
settings.
Referenced Bugs:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107943
[Bug 107943] [META] Save bugs and enhancements
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112703
[Bug 112703] [META] ODF (XML) bug tracker
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117718
[Bug 117718] [META] Flat XML/ODF issues
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