Data Loss Warning for none Default File Formats

OpenOffice.org 2.0

Document - ID	Specification Owner	Last Change	Status
	Frank Loehmann	31.01.05	Draft
Conforms to	
Applies to	OpenOffice.org 2.0
Task ID(s)	i34118
Category	Bug Fix (UI relevant)

i-Team Members (The specification owner is part of the i-Team)

	Name	E-mail Address
User Experience	Frank Loehmann	Frank.Loehmann@sun.com
Development	Oliver Specht	Oliver.Specht@sun.com
Quality Assurance	Jörg Skottke	Joerg.skottke@sun.com
Documentation	Uwe Fischer	Uwe.fischer@sun.com

Approved for Implementation

	Approved by	Date
User Experience	Frank Loehmann	17.11.04
Development	Oliver Specht	17.11.04
Quality Assurance	Jörg Skottke	18.11.04
Documentation	Uwe Fischer	17.11.04
String Review	Elizabeth Matthis	31.01.05 + 31.01.05

Document Change History

Rev. Level	Change	Initials	Date
1.0	Initial Spec	FL	31.01.05
1.1	Spec finalized	FL	
1.2	Text and spec updated	FL and EM	31.01.05

Contents

1	Motivation	4

2	Specification	4

Motivation

A warning dialog is shown for each changed file format association when closing the dialog. This is no good user experience.

Illustration 1The applications default saving format could be changed in the Tools-Options-Load/Save-General dialog.

Illustration 2 Currently a warning dialog is shown for each change of a default format in the Tools options dialog

Specification

The separate warning dialogs will be removed. Instead of the dialogs, a new fixed text warning will be added to the dialog page, directly were the user can change the file format association.

New Layout for Option Dialog - Load/Save - General Dialog

The changed dialog offers sufficient space to add the note to the dialog.

Illustration 3 New dialog layout with sufficient space for the new warning notice below the controls - mockup is not up-to-date

Warning String for Translation

	English	German	Comments
Text	Note: Not using OpenDocument as the default format may cause formatting or content to be lost.	Hinweis: Wenn Sie nicht OpenDocument als Standardformat verwenden, kann dies zum Verlust von Formatierungen oder Inhalten führen.	This text makes the separate pop-up warning obsolete.

Renamed User Folder

Page

http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/options_settings/data_loss_warning_for_none_default_file_formats.sxw

Frank Loehmann

2004-11-11T16:31:51