Hi Jean-Baptiste, On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 22:51 +0200, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: > But the removing of the import of old formats is another story. I am > already hearing end-users complaining against this decision. Indeed it > is not so evident that the users can convert their old files to > OpenDocument format. I see at least one argument against such > conversion: if you have old archived sdw files, you do not want > transform your archives in an unusable bazaar by renaming and changing > the date of all your files.
Sure, as an former ECM consultant I wouldn't have appreciated that date changing thing ;) > - communicate on the document converter: probably many users do not know it May be some power user could write a small shell script invoking it to rename all files into a newer format? that would also help spread the use of that feature. > - add to the converter the possibility to keep the date of the original > file when converted to ODF Sure, I'ld see it as a parameter to the soffice.bin used along with the --convert-to param. > - perhaps add to the converter the possibility to rename the files in a > more informative way than only change their extension, eg toto.sdw -> > toto_sdw.odt IMHO that needs to be kept on the scripting side. Every user would have his own renaming scheme for that... -- Cédric Bosdonnat LibreOffice hacker http://documentfoundation.org OOo Eclipse Integration developer http://cedric.bosdonnat.free.fr _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
