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  1. Bug #90378
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 90378

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 90378] Re: Should make downloaded files-read only

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:08:37AM -0000, Eric wrote:
> Since Openoffice does not allow you to change anything about a file when
> its read only, not even change the sort order, I have to open the file,
> save it (in /tmp), just to change the sort order. I am okay with the
> default functionality the way it is for the Linux newbies, but I need an
> option in both Firefox and Thunderbird that allows me to use the
> applications like I have for years.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to do this?
>

This is an openoffice issue - they should reconsider how they deal
with read-only files and should offer the user to breach any kind of
"read-only" mode easily.

 - Alexander