Re: [PUSHED] Re: Remove save to old Microsoft office formats

2012-12-14 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 18:21 -0500, Bryan Quigley wrote: > > Could you update the features page with this info > > I updated this page http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0 with: > Dropped support for legacy Word and Excel (version 6.0/95) files. > These files can still be opened, bu

Re: [PUSHED] Re: Remove save to old Microsoft office formats

2012-12-13 Thread Bryan Quigley
Hi all, > Was discussed in ESC call, so pushed to master and 4.0 now. Thanks! > Could you update the features page with this info I updated this page http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0 with: Dropped support for legacy Word and Excel (version 6.0/95) files. These files can still

[PUSHED] Re: Remove save to old Microsoft office formats

2012-12-13 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 18:05 -0500, Bryan Quigley wrote: > Hi all, > > This patch removes the ability to save to old office 6/95 formats. > I've also opened a bug on it here: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53471 > > It's a very trivial patch but: > This contribution to LibreOffice

Re: Remove save to old Microsoft office formats

2012-12-13 Thread Lubos Lunak
On Thursday 13 of December 2012, Caolán McNamara wrote: > On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 10:05 +, Michael Meeks wrote: > > I assume the root problem you want to fix is of users accidentally > > picking the wrong format in the filter / drop-down and getting a > > needlessly bad experience here ? > >

Re: Remove save to old Microsoft office formats

2012-12-13 Thread Caolán McNamara
On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 10:05 +, Michael Meeks wrote: > I assume the root problem you want to fix is of users accidentally > picking the wrong format in the filter / drop-down and getting a > needlessly bad experience here ? I seem to recall a bug (maybe fixed ?) where in the kde file dial

Re: Remove save to old Microsoft office formats

2012-12-13 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Bryan, On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 18:05 -0500, Bryan Quigley wrote: > This patch removes the ability to save to old office 6/95 formats. > I've also opened a bug on it here: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53471 Wow - that's bold :-) indeed there are loads of problems with fi

Remove save to old Microsoft office formats

2012-12-12 Thread Bryan Quigley
Hi all, This patch removes the ability to save to old office 6/95 formats. I've also opened a bug on it here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53471 It's a very trivial patch but: This contribution to LibreOffice may be licensed under the MPL/LGPLv3+ dual license. This patch was al