Re: [libreoffice-l10n] A bug that could be a stopper for the L10N community

Hi all,
On 07/02/2011 17:45, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Martin Srebotnjak<miles@filmsi.net>  wrote:
> > I already mentioned this bug some time ago on this list, I think:
>
> It helps to at least mention what you're talking about in the subject.
> Please choose a more telling subject next time.
>
> > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=58014
> > It is quite relevant for L10N teams and international users, even more
> > for users that have spell-checking, thesaurus and grammar needs in the
> > languages of their preference. It is present in OOo for a long time,
> > but there was no will to squash it.
>
> There is no easy fix for this, due to the way it works on windows.
> There are static dummy-document that are then in turn copied to the
> location where you invoke the contextmenu→New function.
>
> So LO/OOo could only fix it by recognizing on open that it is a
> "shellnew" document and then replace it by itself using a document
> based on the default template.
> This is no problem if only OOo/LO is used to modify the documents, but
> of course when other applications are used to edit the documents,
> they'd ignore that property and then you risk that LO/OOo will throw
> away the existing changes when not checking for modifications, etc.

Thanks for your analysis Christian.
> > Is it possible the L10N list would nominate this bug as a stopper for
> > LO3.4 or 3.3.2 or whichever version of LO?
>
> Well, without a proposed fix....

I agree on that that couldn't be a stopper, however there is a lot of 
duplicates on the issue, so it shows that it is often meet by a certain 
population of users.
What I wanted to do is open the bug on our own tracker to have it in our 
radar and ask Fridrich to have a look at it.

Kind regards
Sophie
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