Hello,
I'm no developer, so please bear with me for my rather complicated
description. ;-)
As some of you may know, I'm involved in OpenOffice.org network setups
with a centralized configuration. I've already published various
articles on that and also contributed to the network configuration PDF
on our website. During writing an article for German c't magazine on
that topic (published in c't 18/2009), I came across a bug:
Although specific settings in the configuration can be locked with the
oor:finalized=true attribute in the XCU file, it doesn't work reliably
all of the time. Normally, when a configuration element has been locked,
it is grayed out, has a little key icon next to it and manual changes by
the user are ignored. While the latter one works in all cases, the
visualization of the locking doesn't work for all settings.
One example is the proxy configuration: You can perfectly lock it in
Inet.xcu, but the dialog does not reflect this change. Users can happily
modify the settings, nothing is grayed out. However, user's changed are
ignored and upon opening the dialog box a second time, the preconfigured
values show up again. This isn't only true for the proxy configuration,
but for many more settings.
So, the basic functionality works, but the visualization in the UI is
not always working as expected, which can confuse users.
After discussing with Carsten Driesner from Sun, he suggested to ask on
this list if someone is interested in helping to fix this. I am no
developer, so I can only help in testing, but Carsten offered some
instructions and guidance if someone is interested.
Although I agree that we have many more critical bugs to fix than this
one, I consider it important for corporate deployments. And as corporate
deployments are an important market, I hope for help ;-)
Florian
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