[upstream] Misleading "Cancel" when displaying the document recovery window at startup.

Bug #336486 reported by Rob Frohne
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
OpenOffice
Confirmed
Unknown
openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

When openoffice has been killed without document changes saved, and then started up again, a document recovery window appears and you have the option to "Start Recovery" or "Cancel." Since you just started openoffice, when you read the "Cancel" option it is very likely you will think it means that you are going to cancel the opening of openoffice which you don't want to do. If the message said something like, "Don't recover." and in the text above that explains these, "Don't recover, if you would rather never recover the documents below." or something like that. You are likely a good word smith, and can improve on it, but the present "Cancel" is misleading.

This is even more annoying because if you read a document from the web that is stored in /tmp and then you reboot, that file doesn't exist, and so it remains on the list to recover, but fails every time. What you really need to do is press "Cancel," but that sounds so much like saying "I don't want to open openoffice that you just keep dealing with the recovery window. At least I did!

I'm using Ubuntu Intrepid.

Best regards,

Rob

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/brightq//bin:/usr/local/brightq//bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-12-generic i686

Revision history for this message
Rob Frohne (frohro) wrote :
Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Changed in openoffice.org:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Changed in openoffice:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in openoffice:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Changed in openoffice:
status: Invalid → Unknown
Changed in openoffice:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Chris Cheney (ccheney)
tags: added: intrepid
Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen) wrote : migrating packaging from OpenOffice.org to Libreoffice

[This is an automated message.]
There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.

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