OOO not auto-saving by default

[Colin Charles]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 09:40 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> <kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> > And RH packagers: please turn it on...
> > 
> > Sean: you might want to report this as a bug in bugzilla
> 
> does upstream openoffice have it on by default? Whatever argument you
> could use to rationalize the distribution turning it on by default
> would also hold for upstream to enable it by default. So instead of

No, its off by default and has been for ages

> every distribution having to take special effort to turn it on by
> default, file this with upstream with openoffice.org and get
> auto-saved turned on by default upstream and save every packager
> downstream the trouble.

In fact, the users at openoffice.org/discuss at openoffice.org as well as
IssueZilla has heard much about this issue

It is a user defined task - especially in a networked environment,
turning on autosave when home directories are NFS mounted isn't the
wisest thing to do
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