[Libreoffice] Better wording for 'Update links' question

[Cor Nouws]

Octavio Alvarez wrote (22-12-10 23:24)
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:11:29 -0800, Kohei Yoshida <kyoshida at novell.com>
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 13:06 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
>>> Experts already know what "Update links?" means; non-experts will not
>>> understand enough to answer the question correctly even with improved
>>> wording.
>>
>> I disagree here. You tend to polarize the users as either experts or
>> non-experts. There are those in between who want to make an informed
>> decision and will understand the verbiage. The user who reported the
>> above bug is one such example.
>
> Is it possible to remove the dialog? I think I prefer not to have
> anything automatically updated and have a menu item to update it.

Doesn't the dialog offer the choice to update or not?

> Rationale:
> [1] if data is there and it's the same, it doesn't make sense to update.
> [2] if data is not there, it doesn't make sense to update.
> [3] if data is there and differs, the only way to see the old data is
> to hit "no".

And the contrary:
- user has some data, that is known to be updated,
- opens a file that uses the data and wants to update it immediately.
Isn't that how the dialog is meant to be used?

> Now, how would users be able to refresh links? Through a menu item.
>
> Of course, users should be notified that there is existing external
> resources. If LibO can notify that external resources have changed,
> it would be even better.

Best,
Cor

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