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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | Save dailogue makes no sense. | ||
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| Product: | General | Reporter: | foskey |
| Component: | ui | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | Trivial | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues |
| Version: | OOo 2.0 Beta | ||
| Target Milestone: | AOO Later | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux, all | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||
Hi waratah, thanks for using and supporting OpenOffice.org... I reassign this to cj... mci -> cj: Hi cj, here is suggestion about another "save-as"-dialog text... please have a look at it, thanks... :) reassign to Frank Loehmann Unfortunately the dialog is needed, because of the potential Data loss on saving in non standard formats. I agree, the current dialog text is too long, but we had many thoughts about it. Another possible solution might be the usage of longer buttons and to name the action directly on the button. Proposed text in this issue has issues too, because the button's names are always the last word in the sentences. So the user has to read the whole sentence before she can decide if the button will execute the right action. Furthermore the dialog is used for unsaved documents too and then there is no "existing format". Change target to OOo later. |
I am running Ubuntu OOo2. I found this in head: $ egrep -r "To preserve formatting" . ./sfx2/unxlngi4.pro/misc/doc/doc.src:// Text [ en-US ] = "$(FILENAME) may contain formattings that are not compatible with $(FORMAT) Format. Do you want to save the document in this format?\n\n- To save in $(FORMAT) Format, click 'Yes'\n- To preserve formatting, click No. Next save the document in the latest %PRODUCTNAME format."; ./sfx2/source/doc/doc.src:// Text [ en-US ] = "$(FILENAME) may contain formattings that are not compatible with $(FORMAT) Format. Do you want to save the document in this format?\n\n- To save in $(FORMAT) Format, click 'Yes'\n- To preserve formatting, click No. Next save the document in the latest %PRODUCTNAME format."; The Save Dialogue comes up with a message about format not compatible with saving. This is more than likely not true, another usability problem for another day... The message attempts to describe what the Yes and no options quote: To save in OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text Document Format, click yes. To preserve formatting, click no. Next save the document in the latest OpenOffice.org format. /quote This makes no sense whatsoever. I think it means better: To save in the existing format, OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text Document Format click Yes. To ensure formatting is preserved by using the latest OpenOffice.org format, click No. /better I also hate the fact that it is yes no, it should be "original" and "upgrade" to show what the options really are. The dialogue box also says {milestone} instead of the actual milestone.