[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 144521] FILESAVE: Stop storing empty cells

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144521

--- Comment #15 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
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Last rows of sheet "Rides"

(In reply to robert from comment #14)
> Have you actually read <http://www.ncdm.com/bloat/bloat.htm>, especially the
> penultimate line: 
> 
> Bloat is not a technical issue, but verily a way of thinking, a "state of
> mind". Its cure is a simple refusal to accept, and a well directed,
> resounding "clean up your act and clean up your code!"

Please keep the issue clean of unrelated subjective stuff.

> It's not just storing empty cells, or "If a user has created elements having
> different styles in the very last rows of the sheet, it's not the software's
> task to discard that data." The user hasn't created them, the user, in casu
> me, has deleted 1 million rows and it's Calc that fills them with "standard"
> styles. 

LOL. Have you tried to look at *your* file? Let me show it - on the attached
screenshot. Look at the heights of the rows 1048565 to 1048576 (last 12 rows)
vs the rows above? *This* is what *you* did (and you *definitely*) had set the
height manually, at least for the million+ rows 1048564 and above. How that
happened is what only you can tell.

> Or why do I get "asian" or "complex" styles? 

Because every style includes full definition that allows you to type *any*
character into the cell having this style; and for ODF, that means that to type
an Asian character, LibreOffice would need to use a different font. That you
didn't enable display of those settings doesn't mean that LibreOffice should
save incomplete styles, making *your* file behave differently in two your
friends both typing Chinese characters, simply because they would use some
different defaults because your file didn't explicitly specify what to use for
Asian text.

This is prefectly OK.

> Or fonts that are never used?

A style that is defined in your file is the *content* of the file, even if you
didn't apply it to anything.

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