https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50916

Steffen Moeller <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Hardware|Other                       |x86-64 (AMD64)
                 OS|All                         |Linux (All)
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
           Priority|medium                      |high
            Version|3.5.4 release               |3.6.3.1 rc
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #2 from Steffen Moeller <[email protected]> ---
I had a colleague of mine send her data twice, in different formats, assuming a
file corruption. This was because LibreOffice Calc does not even warn when it
encounters a file with more columns than it can deal with. This is a bit
embarassing, not?

For your internal priorisation, please be aware that today, with many research
lab are equipped with machines to perform high throughput analyses, files with
>1500 columns (which typically host attributes in statistics) are no longer
exceptional. Excel once was sucking badly with 256 columns, but they got that
one fixed for a reason.

Together with this functionality of thousands of columns there will be new
interfaces developing alongside for the filtering of such. Time will bring it.
Just now, please fix this behaviour. I offer 100 Euros from my very private
pocket for this feature. The missing notice of losing data I tend to see as a
bug.

Concerning the "dynamic container" comment below I suggest to think about
sparse formats. There is tons of sparse data out there in scientific data and
to have a regular desktop tool prepared to handle that efficiently would be
exciting.

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