Sometimes, you want to keep some tracked changes to a document as such, but have them show as your changes; or even - as changes by someone else. This is already "possible" today, in a crooked way: * Change your user details to the desired change author details * remember the changes to be made * Reject the changes * Make the changes again, as "yourself" * Change your user details back but this is silly. Instead, we should be able to change the tracked-change author identity: 1. In the Edit > Track Changes > Manage... dialog 2. Via the context menu for a change (with a dialog opening up for choosing/typing in author details)
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #0) > Sometimes, you want to keep some tracked changes to a document as such, but > have them show as your changes... Why would I want to change the authorship? Likewise for comments I would rather prevent this (modifying the content.xml is pretty simple).
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from bug 162424 comment #9) > We discussed the topic in the design meeting. > > The use case might be reasonable but not every possible function should be > implemented. The integrity of authorship outweighs the flexibility and > convenience. => WF > > Nevertheless this is just the recommendation for the core application. The > feature can easily implemented per extension.