Hardy OpenOffice 2.4 Save

[Shannon McMackin]

Richard Mancusi wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:18 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 04/28/2008 03:01 PM, Richard Mancusi wrote:
>>  > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:50 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>  >>
>>  >> On 04/28/2008 02:42 PM, Richard Mancusi wrote:
>>  >>  > Is there a setting in OO 2.4 to control the "greying" of the
>>  >>  > Save button.  In 2.2 the Save button was only active if changes
>>  >>  > to your document had been made - now it's always active.
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > If this is the expected behavior in 2.4, I sure hope they fix
>>  >>  > it in the next version.
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > tnx
>>  >>  > -rich
>>  >>  >
>>  >>
>>  >>  It's a bug. There has been some discussion on the OOo lists, and there
>>  >>  is a bug associated with it. I'll see if I can find the bug report, but
>>  >>  suffice it to say that it's getting some attention :-)
>>  >>
>>  >>  Gary
>>  >>
>>  >
>>  > Great news - you wouldn't believe the amount of user complaints I
>>  > am getting over this.  Don't worry about finding the bug report - I
>>  > trust you.  Good to know that they are working on it.
>>  >
>>  > Thank you very much
>>  > -rich
>>  >
>>
>>  Here you go... all the gory details:
>>
>>  http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5226
>>
> 
> That's some nasty reading!  So, some folks want to be just like MS
> when they grow up (perhaps down).  Others apparently can't find
> "Save As" when they just changed settings and not text.  You have
> more patients then me - I quit reading.  If it wasn't suggested, how
> about another flag?  There is (was?) one for printing triggering the
> Save icon.  How about settings triggering the Save icon?  Down side
> is the more flags, the messier it gets.  I suspect the 3.1 goal is out
> there a bit.  I will brace for another round of complaints.
> 
> Thanks again
> -rich
> 
Rich,

I don't get it.  Why is the state of the "Save as" button such a big 
deal as it seems to be?

I've noticed a few subtle differences with this new 2.4, but not enough 
to complain as much as you say people are...

Go figure...