Created attachment 65524 [details] Removed old office formats Discussion in list starts here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-February/007085.html Rational: The usability problem I've seen is that users: * want to save in MS Word format, but don't know what version to use * the pick 6.0 or 95 thinking many different things (lower number means it will work with more computers?) * since this is there only copy of the file, they lose all tables and more I couldn't figure out how to do anything but remove them from the save as dialog, patch is attached for that.
My questions / opinions: a) Is this patch complete? May be we have to remove some additional file conversion code, not only the items in the filetype picker b) I would prefer a solution to handle the "same as" of these filetypes like the obsolete Star / OOo import filters: Allow to install Filesave support for these obsolete document types for users in 3.7, Remove filesave support completely in 4.0.
a) There is likely more code that could be removed. This accomplishes the goal without removing filters from the code base. b) The obsolete format package doesn't actually restore Save as support (at least in 3.6 debs and wine). Is it supposed to? I think it might just allow open support. My patch leaves the filters fully intact for the old Word documents.
Can we mark this as NEW as the discussion has already happened? Also Bryan can you assign yourself as the developer working on this?
@Joel: Yes!
the idea seens very sensible to me. i wonder though what would happen if a user opens a old WW6 file and tries to save it, how to get that to pick WW8 filter automatically? Bryan, could you please send a mail with a text like http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/38402 to the mailing list libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org ? also best to send the patch either to mailing list or to gerrit (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/gerrit) because developers look there far more often than at bugzilla for patches.
Created attachment 71414 [details] Removed save to old office formats Files changed a bit, but it is still the same simple patch.
Bryan Quigley committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=279ed1d1ea3e692072b19a510f0cba3d892ca046&g=libreoffice-4-0 Resolves: fdo#53471 Remove save to Office 6.0/95 formats It will be available in LibreOffice 4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.