Issue 44336 - Save dailogue makes no sense.
Summary: Save dailogue makes no sense.
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0 Beta
Hardware: All Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO Later
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Reported: 2005-03-07 12:08 UTC by foskey
Modified: 2013-02-07 21:58 UTC (History)
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Description foskey 2005-03-07 12:08:22 UTC
I am running Ubuntu OOo2.  I found this in head:

$ egrep -r "To preserve formatting" .
./sfx2/unxlngi4.pro/misc/doc/doc.src://    Text [ en-US ] = "$(FILENAME) may
contain formattings that are not compatible with $(FORMAT) Format. Do you want
to save the document in this format?\n\n- To save in $(FORMAT) Format, click
'Yes'\n- To preserve formatting, click No. Next save the document in the latest
%PRODUCTNAME format.";
./sfx2/source/doc/doc.src://    Text [ en-US ] = "$(FILENAME) may contain
formattings that are not compatible with $(FORMAT) Format. Do you want to save
the document in this format?\n\n- To save in $(FORMAT) Format, click 'Yes'\n- To
preserve formatting, click No. Next save the document in the latest %PRODUCTNAME
format.";

The Save Dialogue comes up with a message about format not compatible with
saving.  This is more than likely not true, another usability problem for
another day...

The message attempts to describe what the Yes and no options quote:

To save in OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text Document Format, click yes.
To preserve formatting, click no.  Next save the document in the latest
OpenOffice.org format.

/quote

This makes no sense whatsoever.  I think it means better:

To save in the existing format, OpenOffice.org 1.0 Text Document Format click Yes.
To ensure formatting is preserved by using the latest OpenOffice.org format,
click No.

/better

I also hate the fact that it is yes no,  it should be "original" and "upgrade"
to show what the options really are.

The dialogue box also says {milestone} instead of the actual milestone.
Comment 1 mci 2005-03-07 15:35:06 UTC
Hi waratah,

thanks for using and supporting OpenOffice.org...

I reassign this to cj...


mci -> cj: 

Hi cj, here is suggestion about another "save-as"-dialog text...
please have a look at it, thanks... :)
Comment 2 matthias.mueller-prove 2005-05-10 14:15:06 UTC
reassign to Frank Loehmann
Comment 3 frank.loehmann 2005-06-14 16:11:47 UTC
Unfortunately the dialog is needed, because of the potential Data loss on saving
in non standard formats. I agree, the current dialog text is too long, but we
had many thoughts about it. Another possible solution might be the usage of
longer buttons and to name the action directly on the button.

Proposed text in this issue has issues too, because the button's names are
always the last word in the sentences. So the user has to read the whole
sentence before she can decide if the button will execute the right action.
Furthermore the dialog is used for unsaved documents too and then there is no
"existing format".

Change target to OOo later.