Comment 2 for bug 288185

This is not a "I wish it were otherwise" feature request: This is an accessibility and usability bug.

When a user makes a data format input/display choice, a choice supported by the software, they are making an accessibility choice. If the software gets it wrong, the software requires correction.

If I choose plain-text, I should get text as plain as in this form, as in vi, as on a piece of paper. No bells-and-whistles, no attempts to be helpful, no attempts to second-guess what I *really* meant. Either of the latter is simply paternalistic and contrary to be best principles of usability and accessibility.

On a side-note, should there not be a simple "click to forward upstream" option? Forcing a user make the same effort a second time is far too close to the "you got it wrong, n00b" response far too common in the floss world. The "also affects project" option does not appear to have the right result (which is to let the computer do as much of the work as possible).