Issue 13664

Summary:	The user should not see a distinction between "save as" and "export"
Product:	Draw	Reporter:	ingenstans
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	OOo 1.1 Beta	Keywords:	oooqa, usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description ingenstans 2003-04-21 08:36:49 UTC

when editing a jpeg using Draw, if I ask to save it, I am told this can't be 
done, and I must save in ".sxd" format. Yet, I can in fact save it as a jpeg 
using the "export" menu. 

I'm sure the distincion makes sense from an engineering PoV: presumably the 
"export" menus invoke external filters. But it makes no sense to the user, and 
should be invisible. I don't care how the program manages to save my work as a 
jpeg. I just want it to work without fuss. So there's no reason from the user's 
point of view, for a separate "export" menu. The choices it offers should all be 
availabe from the "Save" and "Save as" dialogues.

We don't have a separate "Import" menu for opening alien file formats. If they 
can be opened at all,they show up in the open dialogue. 

I know that other graphics programs make this mistake (Corel certainly does). WE 
shouldn't follow their example.

Comment 1 wolframgarten 2003-04-22 07:51:58 UTC

Reassigned to Bettina.

Comment 2 aziem 2006-06-27 21:21:31 UTC

A user asked me, "How do I export as .doc?  I can only export as PDF."  So, the
distinction is confusing.

>I'm sure the distincion makes sense from an engineering PoV: presumably the 
>"export" menus invoke external filters. But it makes no sense to the user

At first, I thought "exported" files cannot be imported.  That's true for
Writer, but it isn't true for Draw.

Comment 3 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:50:47 UTC

To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".