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The Meaning of “Read Only”

Most of the time, OpenOffice.org just aggravates me. Sometimes, though, it can amuse as well. Does this screenshot need any comments? :-)

The document 'MFF ZS 05.ppt (read-only)' has been modified. Do you want to save your changes?

December 14, MMIX — Humor. 2 comments.
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(avatar) Pablo Rodríguez June 12, MMX
I guess this would be only wrong if and only if saving the modified file overwrites the read-only file. If you can save the modifications within a new file, this is fine. I'm not an OOo fan, but this is a feature not to lose work, not a bug.
(avatar) Vita June 12, MMX

The point is that I didn't actually make any modifications. With the file being read-only, I couldn't have made any! All I did was reading the file, with the “Edit File” toggle implicitly off. When I wanted to close it, OOo asked me about saving changes that couldn't have been made at all :-)

Anyway, I'm unable to reproduce this bug in OOo 3.2. Maybe it's been already fixed.

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