Re: [Libreoffice] Better wording for 'Update links' question

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 12:48 -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 18:09 +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32548
> >
> > The bug says: when I open a certain .odp document, I get a pop-up
> > question asking "Update all links? Yes/No"
> >
> > Anybody who knows this functionality, can you please provide a better
> > wording? ;-)  Just post it here, I'll integrate it.
>
> That dialog gets launched when there are some external links present in
> Edit - Links... dialog.  A link can be one of various types, and what
> types of links are supported differ between the apps.  It could be a DDE
> link, OLE link, Area link (Calc only), external references (Calc only)
> etc.  I hope you get the picture.
>
> Given this, I don't know what the better wording would be.  Updating all
> links basically tries to fetch the latest content from the respective
> link sources, or else the app would show data from its own cache which
> is normally stored with the document, and may be outdated.

How about this?

"This document contains one or more links to external data.  Would you
like to update all links to get the most recent data?

Go to Edit - Links... to find out what external data this document
references."

-- 
Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc
<kyoshida@novell.com>