Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS raised prices so people will now start renting their office products instead

Il 05/10/2012 16:31, webmaster-Kracked_P_P ha scritto:
> On 10/05/2012 10:10 AM, Marcello Romani wrote:
> > Il 05/10/2012 11:07, John Clegg ha scritto:
> > > One feature I miss isn't actually a feature in MSO as such, but LO
> > > behaves
> > > differently. If I open a spreadsheet from an email or the web it
> > > places a
> > > copy in the download folder/directory and Calc always opens it read-only
> > > whereas Excel opens it as read-write. I would like at least an option to
> > > get Calc to open it as read-write. To do so I have to save a copy
> > > before I start, and as I do this around 100 times a day it becomes
> > > quite an
> > > irritant.
> >
> > It's just a "modify document" button click away. But I guess it's more
> > a "problem" of the web browser or e-mail client rather than OOo/LibO
> > as such.
> >
> > The browser / e-mail client puts a read-only file in the user temp
> > folder, then passes its full path to OOo/LibO for reading. OOo/LibO
> > will just notice it's a readonly file and will behave accordingly.
> >
> > Hopefully someone with more technicall indsight into this can confirm
> > or correct me ?
>
> This open as a read only is a "security feature" from before LO came
> out.  I remembering it doing the same with OpenOffice.org and MSO-2003.
>
> The file, at least with Thunderbird, that come in an email attachment is
> stored in a TEMP folder.  Those files are, by nature, read-only till
> they get saved outside the TEMP [/tmp for Linux] folder.
>
> I know it is a hassle for people but I really do not want to have any
> email attachments placed in a "normal" data folder without me saving it
> there.  That way I control what gets saved from the email and then all
> the other stuff is removed with the deletion cycle of the email client's
> TEMP folder content.
>
> We must think safety first and deal with the hassles like this, or could
> suffer a email that places their attachment file anywhere it wants to be
> and may be overwrite a working file with the same name or worse a system
> file.

If those files weren't read only there would be other, more serious 
complaints from users (I had one).
The user would doubleclick on an attachment and have it open r/w in 
OOo/LibO/MSO. He would start modifying it right away (no hassle!), then 
save it. Then close the word processor and forget about it.
Then after a little while go to the IT guy asking where the hell is that 
document that he just "saved".

Being readonly, instead, forces the user to click on that damned icon, 
so the program produces an in-memory r/w copy of the document that will 
trigger a "save as" procedure when the user would click "save".

--
Marcello Romani

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