Hi Cor, I totally missed to answer your mail ... kudos to the little red exclamation mark (but, not within the status bar, of course *g*).
Am Dienstag, den 07.12.2010, 13:34 +0100 schrieb Cor Nouws: > Hi again, > > (after a short lunch, a second thought ;-) ) Well, as I said, I had some in the meantime ... > Christoph Noack wrote (06-12-10 23:54) > > > Example 1.1: Simple Dialog > > > > If a protected cell style shall be changed, a dialog is raised > > to explain that it is used on a protected sheet. Nothing can be > > changed (or even viewed). The user has to un-protect the > > sheet(s) first. > > Of course most important! and as well easiest, I guess It might be the easiest (local optimum), but we will stumble across such issues over and over. And they will require to re-think how we currently handle not so important messages, important messages, and also how to revert changes we apply automatically. Thus, we should consider a more "global optimum" IMHO. > > Example 2.1: Workflow Optimized Solution > >[...] > > What might be checked with users and within common workflows: > > Does it help if - if the protection has been disabled > > temporarily - that the protection may be re-activated again when > > a) saving the file, or b) asking the user when he attempts to > > close the document. > > In most (if not all) of the cases, protection of cells means that the > owner wants people to fill in data, and not to rework the sheet. > So I start wondering how often people that need to fill a form, should > be asked/allowed to change styles. > Of course, the initial feed back is very important, so that people > realise what is going on, and do not need to start a debug session ;-) I see this a bit different - for those who are really working on such forms, it would be a big help. The other "users" of these sheets (or whatever document) might simply benefit from a more reasonable explanation. To me, it is not that much about the styles, but also to (e.g.) fix a simple typo ... this can drive people nuts. For the users, it might be simple helpful to provide a request to work with the form ... Adobe Acrobat does a nice job, here. Cheers, Christoph _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
