https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44817
--- Comment #22 from Robinson Tryon (qubit) <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Joel Madero from comment #21) > There are going to be so many corner cases of what will be saved and what > won't be. I only know a couple of them, although I'd expect that the devs/the codebase knows about many more of the limitations, because otherwise we'd be writing out invalid XLS files that Excel wouldn't be able to read correctly. > I believe this was discussed by ux at some point and summarily > dismissed because it would be so hard to figure out every test case of when > Excel formats are going to lose things. I'm not suggesting that we try to completely map the entire XLS spec. I'm just suggesting that in cases that we *know* are going to lose data, we say something explicit about it. I think that's the best way for us to provide a high-quality software product to our users. > Also it might lead to bad results if > we warn about some things, miss something else, and a user then says "but > you lead me to believe you'll warn me about EVERY corner case that might > occur." I agree that our users sometimes say silly things, and often blame us for things over which we have no control, but I think it's okay for us to sometimes say "This operation MAY lose data," and other times to say "This operation WILL lose data." > Just my 2 cents - I'd close this as WONTFIX as the reality is it would just > be too hard to implement and the current warning is sufficient to say "you > very well might lose stuff if you don't save in odf formats" As I mentioned previously, our current "you might lose stuff" warning is displayed *every single time* someone saves a document in a non-ODF file format. We provide the same bland warning so often that I'm certain our users are desensitized to it. If they haven't lost data the last 100 times they've saved an XLS file, they're going to mistakenly believe it's unlikely that they'll lose data on the 101st save. I see this as an opportunity for us to differentiate ourselves from our competitors: We have a chance to tell the user what works with the file formats and what doesn't. As a bonus, users will probably be much more encouraged to stick with ODF. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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