tora - Takamichi Akiyama wrote: > Hi Mikhail, > > Mikhail Voytenko wrote: >> although the provided document handling scenario looks to be a little >> bit strange for me, opening the document readonly as Mathias has already >> suggested would be the solution. In your case the documents are opened >> from the file explorer. So you need probably a possibility to let office >> open every file readonly by default. > > Could you provide us with a user scenario using a possible solution "opening > all documents readonly by default"? > > case A) a single user handling an existing document file; when the file gets > locked and when unlocked? > case B) two users sharing one document file in a file server and one user > editing it > case C) multiple users sharing one document file in a file server and some > users unexpectedly editing it simultaneously > case D) File - Save As, previous one unlocked and new one locked, become > readonly? > case E) Starting with an empty file (couldn't be readonly) and File - Save, > become readonly, locked?
Mikhail didn't suggest this as a solution for all problems, but for some of them. I understand, you are asking for a "do not lock and merge changes" solution. This would be nice to have, but we don't have a merging procedure that works 100% correct in 100% of all possible cases. As we value prevention of data loss or data corruption higher than convenience (or, if you want: prevention of annoyance), we can't work without locking. The first step away from file locking would be to have a perfect merging algorithm for all document types. Regards, 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]
