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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Apr 22 19:26:26 -0700 2006 ------- IMHO it is quite important that OOo informs the user of operations when is loading external files: Having my OOo (version 2.0, w/winXP) frozed i thought it crashed and that my document was dead, and spent time manually recovering informations from "contents.xml". (by chance, doing so, i found an image's URL, and understood the problem). One could have spent many many hours doing such a recovery work, without thinking that switching off his firewall will solve the problem!!. Most users won't wait 10 minutes: More thane 2 minutes whith a frozen progression bar is understood as a crash by the user and "solved" by a Ctrl-Alt-Del! PROPOSITION: A good part of a solution would be to add a log-line (similar to netscape's) telling the user what is going on. Either or not replacing the progression bar (and having mini-progression after the message (dots...). - "opening file..." (this is so quick that will not disturb anybody) - "uncompressing file xxxxxxxx.odt" - "loading files whaterver1", - "loading files whaterver2", - "interpreting and formatting document" - "loading external image href=http://www.01net.com/img/dot.gif"; - "..." When it freezes (or takes a little too long), the last log line will stay, becoming a way for the user to understand which particular action is so long to complete, and it'll give him a chance to understand without using pkzip and a text editor.. And when it doesn't freezes, the user probabely won't even see that small line saying incomprehensible things changing too quickly. (Loglines can be added to a log-file, making a debug action possible after the "crash"). Hoping it can help... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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