Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 11207
Warning when saving or exporting to a significantly lossy format
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:33:13 UTC
Refer to http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=11009 The suggestion is that it would be good to pop up a warning when saving in a semantically dissimilar format. (E.g. saving a Powerpoint file as an Impress format file.) The usability problem to solve is, that the nagging warnings when saving in M$ formats instead of OO formats, tend to limit the value of such a warning. Ideally, this would be solved by actually recording a set of features supported by the current format, subtracting the set of features supported by the destination format, and popping up a very directed warning during the save or export function. This would mean that the warnings suddenly became serious concerns, not something you could normally ignore safely! Win-win. That idea might even be patentatble (i.e., I'd suggest you protect yourselves by filing a simple "register of invention": I hereby assign all intellectual rights for this idea to the OpenOffice open source organisation.) luke
This warning dialog is raised from layers well above the UCB, who only provides the means of loading and saving documents. As all applications (writer, calc, impress...) are affected, my best guess is that this issue should belongs to the 'framework' project. Reassigning...
TM->BH: Please have a look at this issue. Maybe this wish for a feature is worth to think about.
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In OOo 2.3, the messages are still very general and basically contain just 1 bit of information: that the format is somehow different. I still think it would be valuable to be much more precise about the features that may be in use that can't be translated, but I do understand that it would be a reasonable amount of work to implement the suggestion. luke
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".