Yes, everyone here has convinced me that this proposal has more
drawbacks than advantages. However, Pluckduck, I'm quite convinced there
is a problem for people who are sometimes stupid/sleepy (like me). So no
matter how experienced you are, you are still able to make mistakes. And
not to talk
Now I changed the status to Invalid. Is this the right thing to do, or
is there something else that I'm supposed to do also?
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Feature request: save files read-only when invoking external viewers
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found this request finding out how to turn this _off_ (on Debian sid).
I can certainly see _why_ you want this, but I would ask that it be made
optional. You could even make it dependent on location - i.e. /tmp
(read only), /home (read-write). But then it also depends what you are
doing - a PDF
As, jsandeo mentioned. It's a HUGE drawback.
To me is a huge problem. I work with a lot of spreadsheets every day (more that
50 a day), most of them i have to perform minor changes e execute macros. And
with this for a lack of better words, it's a pain in the ass having to save
every and witch
Hmm, it seems that you are right, at least with openoffice 2.4 when I just
tried.
Thanks for your thoughts about this.
Well, maybe these are heavy enough arguments to not implement this change in
behavior.
I still ponder over if there could be some other way to get some kind of
protection when a
Drawbacks:
Use-case 1 : I want to open a text document, change a few things and print it.
Use-case 2 : I want to open a spreadsheet and mess with the formulas and
numbers just to compare a few numbers.
In both cases, even if I don't want to keep the document, I am forced to:
1) Press Save as...
What happens when you move the file? I guess it would still be read-
only in most cases. That of course does not help either. So, while I
understand your motivation and generally think this might be worth
implementing, some more thought has to go into this.
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Feature request: save files
Well, changing this behavior won't prevent totally stupid users (like
me) from doing stupid things. But in the current form as the idea is, it
will definitely help to a certain degree. It is more like a quick hack
to provide some kind of hint to the user to not do a stupid thing in
some
