Forgive me, but I thought one of the aims of LO was improvements to usability. I open emails mailed to me dozens of times a day. Doing Save-As, or clicking the edit button takes little time I agree, but why is it so wrong to desire that as the default to save me time?
On 9 October 2012 10:18, Andreas Säger <ville...@t-online.de> wrote: > Am 09.10.2012 09:14, Marcello Romani wrote: > > Il 08/10/2012 14:13, John Clegg ha scritto: > >> OK, if I accept everything that has been said, then why wouldn't > >> opening an > >> in-memory r/w copy be the sensible default action? > > > > So that when the user would try to save it a Save As dialog would appear > ? > > > > Sounds good to me. > > > > Again, it is not the office program which creates read-only files. In > most cases some other application calls the office to *view* some > document. In most cases the office is called by a browser, mail client > or cloud application to view online content or mail attachments. > > There are many reasons why this application has a viewing mode. It must > not open some document in unsaved template mode just because the file is > read-only. That would be extremely annoying for many users. > Most of our ODF documents (documentations, print-outs, database forms, > reports) are strictly read-only because only one person (me, the file > owner) is supposed to modify these. The co-workers can work with the > contained material (read, print, mail as PDF, edit databases through > forms). > > All you've got to do is hitting the edit button in order to get an > editable new and unsaved document. > All you've got to do is saving the same document in your own file system > in order to get your own editable copy of the document. > > Some Microsoft "feature" carries over the read-only flag when an > application saves a document under another name. I'd call this a bug. No > other file system behaves that silly. You need to turn it off in the > file properties (right-click file in Win Explorer>Properties...). > > There is also an internal read-only mode implemented in the office > program (File>Save As... save with password, open read-only with > password). But that is another story. The internal flag within the > document does not protect the file from being manipulated by other > applications and the read-only status is carried with every copy of the > file. > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
