Issue 65600

Summary:	"File -> Send -> Document as e-mail..." - confusing and inconsistent wording
Product:	General	Reporter:	stp
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	680m167	Keywords:	usability
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description stp 2006-05-19 19:23:19 UTC

In File->Send you will see the string "Document as e-mail" as well as "E-mail as
OpenDocument/MS Word/PDF"

Is the first string (ie. "Document as e-mail") still neccessary?
If so, I think the wording should be aligned/adjusted. The verb in the first
case is the "Send" from the menu group while "e-mail" in the latter.

SÃ¸ren

Comment 1 stefan.baltzer 2006-06-02 14:54:25 UTC

SBA: (1) All entries make sense. The first one sends the current document in its
current format as attachment (i.e. .sxw or .txt format) The others convert the
current file tthe respective format. 

You are right that when you have an .odt document open, these two entries
"Document as e-mail" and "E-mail as opendocument text" do the same (attaching odt)

For details of these entries, please have a look at the respective specification:
http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/send_document_as_email/send_document_as_e-mail_-_ms_file_format_support.odt
PLease note that the corresponding Online help description did not make it into
OOo 2.03 but will be updated for OOo 2.04.

(2) I agree that the entry "File | Send | Document as E-mail..." Does NOT tell
everybody that the file is going to be ATTACHED to an E-mail in its current
format. Especially because the wording is inconsistent to the other entries
below (These DO tell better what will happen).

I adjusted the summary to reflect the findings.

SBA->MMP: You were part of the iTeam specifying this.
Please re-think the target milestone and proceed.

Comment 2 matthias.mueller-prove 2006-08-01 14:10:49 UTC

retarget to 2.x. Implemantation does not match with the spec. Engineering has
promissed to fix this for an upcomming minor release.

Comment 3 Mathias_Bauer 2007-12-04 16:17:32 UTC

according to release status meeting -> target 3.x

Comment 4 matthias.mueller-prove 2009-09-06 10:14:01 UTC

I am no longer officially active on OOo. Please take over.