Joerg Sievers wrote: > Hi, > > nice discussion. The request came AFAIR from 'mmeeks' and has been > approved by UX (lho) and the limitiations were known as it arrived the QA. It seems that you have been informed incorrectly. We received a patch from mmeeks that addressed the issue but we already had a request from ux also as they wanted to fix a serious user problem.
As can be seen in our user lists and elsewhere the inadvertent removal of "auto-extension" is a source of severe user problems including data loss. I know several examples where users have overwritten their original document with a pdf they have created. There are also numerous examples where users couldn't reopen their documents from the desktop or even didn't find them at all because they accidently saved them without extensions. So removing the check box basically was a good idea. Yesterday I discussed the matter with Lutz (lho) and from that discussion I know that the decision was not taken carelessly. Lutz did a competitive analysis and compared pros and cons. So the final decision was based on a known trade-off. I agree that it leaves room for improvement. So let's discuss about possible improvements and don't look back. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
