The "read-only mode" toolbar should be able to be turned off permanently. Seeing the big yellow bar is likely to confuse users of forms who do not understand that "read-only" is the required mode for entering data in forms. I also find it annoying that it actually blocks off the top of my form, making it impossible to enter data until the darned thing is removed. Users should have the option of turning it off for all documents in the Tools-Options menu and also per document. Another alternative might be to show an option in the toolbar along the lines of "Don't show this again". Also the toolbar seems to have been deigned with the belief that all users of all documents would always prefer to edit the document. The "Edit" button is large while the X to close it is almost invisible in comparison.
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I am interested in the same solution as Keith Bates (though for a different reason). Either an Option or a command line parameter would solve the problem. A colleague and I looked at the relevant source code, in order to see if we could disable it in anyway without code changes, but did not find anything (https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/sfx2/source/view/viewfrm.cxx#n1319). We wrote to the users mailinglist, resulting in no response. Then we looked for bug reports and found this enhancement request. We also found to similar bugs (89688, 96363) that might be resolved by resolving this request. What can we do in order to push this along. I assume, just writing a patch would not suffice without someone having decided whether such an option or such a console parameter should get implemented.
I dont see a situation where the permanent dismissal of this notice is useful, especially as it provides a button to easy enable edit mode. @Stuart, @Cor, @Heiko, @Regina: Whats your take?
In bug 101652, if a user deliberately enables that a document is only opened in read-only mode in the file properties dialog, then at the document-level the infobar can be disabled.
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #4) > In bug 101652, if a user deliberately enables that a document is only opened > in read-only mode in the file properties dialog, then at the document-level > the infobar can be disabled. and since to me that looks the most important use case in (In reply to Keith Bates from comment #0) > The "read-only mode" toolbar should be able to be turned off permanently. > > Seeing the big yellow bar is likely to confuse users of forms who do not > understand that "read-only" is the required mode for entering data in forms. > [...] I would also say this issue is a nonFix.
Our usecase is the following: We have embedded LibreOffice into another application using UNO. Documents are part of records involving more data and saving/reverting/etc. these records (including the documents) is controlled by the application. In particular, you can lock a record, so that you cannot change them. In these cases we tell the embedded LibreOffice to open a file read-only. If users can now enable editing via the info-bar it may fool them into thinking, they can edit the document, because the application still won't allow them to save the record and thus the document.
I will look into the new functionallity of 101652. Thanks so far.
(In reply to philipp.schaefer from comment #6) > We have embedded LibreOffice into another application using UNO. Documents > are part of records involving more data and saving/reverting/etc. these > records (including the documents) is controlled by the application. In > particular, you can lock a record, so that you cannot change them. In these > cases we tell the embedded LibreOffice to open a file read-only. In that scenario, yes having a commandline argument and/or expert configuration option would be useful.
I'm against a simple option to disable the infobar. If you go with Tools > Options > Advanced > Expert Configuration that's fine for me (though recommending to not do that). See also bug 106366 comment 2.
*** Bug 95448 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
An option to disable infobars has been added meanwhile, see https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=29575dc6a481f2548b3fcb0906138861aec03583 To disable infobars, go to Tools->Options->Advanced->Expert Configuration and search for "Infobar". Then you can disable individual infobars. "Readonly" is for the infobar which appears on readonly documents.