[Libreoffice] Remove old Word 6.0/95 "save as" support

Hi all, I'd like to get opinions (and preferably consensus) on removing old Microsoft formats "save as" support, specifically: Word 6.0 Word 95 Excel 5.0 Excel 95 The usability problem I've seen is that users: * want to save in MS Word format, but don't know what version to use * the pick 6.0 or

Save as formats explored

Hi all, I've been looking at the Save As formats again and have another few changes I'd like to propose. Like last time, these changes would be UI only and not impact importing these file formats. 1. Remove all of the "OpenOffice.org 1.0" file formats. People may think they should use this to

Re: Save as formats explored

o save as -> Text Encoded/Choose Encoding. Should this be removed from there? Thank you! Bryan Quigley Just to reiterate, because my previous copyright statement was too specific: All of my past & future contributions to LibreOffice may be licensed under the MPL/LGPLv3+ dual license. d

Re: Save as formats explored

> I know people who still use StarOffice 5.2 so there are surely people out > there who still might use these formats. I am happy to look at actual use cases for these formats. Why do they still use StarOffice 5.2? (Is this more common than I think?, Are they using it on a OS platform that is st

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|2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) New commits: commit 7a14419439103676916590b5fda110a514585b80 Author: Bryan Quigley Date: Sun Nov 10 12:51:14 2013 -0500 Make text choose encoding See thread here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2013-November

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(+), 4 deletions(-) New commits: commit 17f39da974adcb39a1d4e2abfd071eff66eee8b5 Author: Bryan Quigley Date: Sun Nov 10 14:29:31 2013 -0500 Make Flat XML document name consistant with ODF List discussion: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2013-November/057337.html

re: NPAPI-based features in LO

Hi there, I pushed that gerrit request.. https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/9644/. Most things have already been mentioned, but... >regarding (2) the problem is that users could have created documents >that contain embedded plug-ins Which AFAICT is also broken, tried this on Ubuntu 14.04 and Wi

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sd/source/ui/remotecontrol/AvahiNetworkService.cxx | 26 + 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) New commits: commit 3c57701cf0a169bd8d1893d1b2271d48b8072147 Author: Bryan Quigley Date: Mon Aug 4 12:26:00 2014 -0400 fdo#81552 Fail nicely if avahi doesn&#

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sd/source/ui/remotecontrol/AvahiNetworkService.cxx | 26 + 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) New commits: commit d2eec11f0a6f27e13a4a834942f8acf20ae62cec Author: Bryan Quigley Date: Mon Aug 4 12:26:00 2014 -0400 fdo#81552 Fail nicely if avahi doesn&#

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sd/source/ui/remotecontrol/AvahiNetworkService.cxx | 28 + 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) New commits: commit 8de2e9b4bc53e6c097897142bad223c100d36292 Author: Bryan Quigley Date: Mon Aug 4 12:26:00 2014 -0400 fdo#81552 Fail nicely if avahi doesn&#

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95da7399047e025327aa96bffde2faf1c2a0757c Author: Bryan Quigley Date: Sun Nov 10 16:10:26 2013 -0500 Remove OOo1.0 file formats from Save As. List discussion: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2013-November/057337.html Reviewed-on: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/7489

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aeeaccf59abbc485d7786486f1accc1cb4d4dbf7 Author: Bryan Quigley Date: Sun Nov 10 16:10:26 2013 -0500 Remove OOo1.0 file formats from Save As. List discussion: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2013-November/057337.html Change-Id

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Remove save to old Microsoft office formats

patch was also written before I joined Canonical. Thanks, Bryan Quigley 0001-Removed-save-to-Office-6.0-95-formats.patch Description: Binary data ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailma

Re: [PUSHED] Re: Remove save to old Microsoft office formats

Hi all, > Was discussed in ESC call, so pushed to master and 4.0 now. Thanks! > Could you update the features page with this info I updated this page http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0 with: Dropped support for legacy Word and Excel (version 6.0/95) files. These files can still