> I know people who still use StarOffice 5.2 so there are surely people out > there who still might use these formats. I am happy to look at actual use cases for these formats. Why do they still use StarOffice 5.2? (Is this more common than I think?, Are they using it on a OS platform that is still supported?) What format do you send them documents in? What's keeping them from upgrading to LibreOffice?
> If you can provide some numbers that show that nobody has used this feature > in a long time I think we can agree to remove it. All the data I can really provide is from Google filetype searches: Here is ODT: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=filetype%3Asxw#hl=en&q=-facebook+filetype:odt Note that there don't appear to be many false positives. Here is SXW: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=filetype%3Asxw#hl=en&q=-facebook+filetype:sxw Note the abundance of false positives. If you switch it to past year on either, for SXW you get two pages of results (all false positives?). Like the Word 95/6.0 file formats, I would expect more people use this accidentally then still use it. And yes, the results aren't loss of data; just loss of time and possibly sending someone a document they can't open. (Remember Office 2007/2010 can open ODF now) This is the same reason I want the Flat XML versions to still sound technical, so that average users don't accidentally pick it. Users will ignore options they don't understand. When I don't see a need for saving to the format anymore and I think there is a high chance that users will accidentally pick the format that's when I propose removing it. As for removing clutter, that's also important. We don't have the 80/20 rule in effect for file formats and I'm not proposing it. I would guess we closer to a 99.999/000.001 ratio before we start removing a file format. There is a real cost in users looking at options that will never be useful to them. Thanks, Bryan *Facebook appears to be spamming Google results... _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
