[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 87685] include ODF opening options announcement by default when sending document by e-mail

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87685

--- Comment #6 from Edmund Laugasson <edmund.laugasson at gmail.com> ---
I would not say advertising but just informing. If you send a file then it
would be nice to say also what program to use and where to get. Being humble
would be good but until certain moment. At some point there would be needed to
say about your existance and let people know that there is also one more and
completely free office suite which also exist and can do the tasks people
expect the office suite will do. So, being shy would not be always beneficial
and gives to people also signal that it might be not worth of use etc.

Let this cloud based LibreOffice be - currently it is not yet available either.

The main question is that raise awareness of ODF fileformat and nothing more.
Also give the right tool to open/edit ODF. MS Office would be not the tool you
probably would suggest - so why not suggest the right program for that?

Even as the UK government has succeeded to enforce Microsoft to support ODF
(http://www.itproportal.com/2015/03/30/microsoft-will-adopt-open-document-standards-following-government-battle/)
- this will happen in MSO 2013 and MSO 365 but not earlier. Therefore it would
be useful to give people working software, which will open ODF properly. We
also do not know whether the ODF support will be deployed into MSO and when
people will update their MSO programs.

Yes I know that LibreOffice will not edit the opened PDF directly but save .odg
in Draw and then it would be possible to export into PDF. I just made shortcut
in description and usually will overwrite old PDF with new one. But still there
is possible to open PDF's using LibreOffice and import them even into editable
shape.

And by the way - I proposed to put it not default turned on and then everyone
can decide whether to turn it on or not. But at least the feature would be then
exist and possible to turn on if needed.

You may even also leave it empty and not write anything. Each native language
would have anyway its own message if at all. So - there would be much easier
just leave it empty and everyone can turn the feature on and add whatever
she/he would like to.

You may call it also signature like most e-mail programs offer. Then just
everyone can write whatever they want to see in the end of each e-mail. Would
it be possible? Just create the functionality to add signature to the e-mail
which will be sent from LibreOffice. Also this would be turned off by default
but if anyone would like to add anything as signature then it would be
possible. That's it.

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