Re: Backporting locking cells / worksheet protection

[Floris Kraak <floris snow nl>]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:50:16AM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> Floris Kraak wrote:
> 
> Well, once we get to the the first production release of the gnome2 
> branch we have hopefully completed the implementation of "locking cells" 
> and this will not be an issue. The stable 1.0.x branch on the other hand 
> is already a production release.
> 

Noted. Being careful is your job. However, producing a patch
for this particular piece of functionality is mine.

> 
> There are lots of differences between the stable and unstable branch as 
> far as analysis tools etc are concerned and backporting these changes 
> (and guaranteeing stability) is virtually impossible.
> 

Which is the other reason I didn't attempt it ;-)

> >
> >Finally; How about documentation? Can't we just document
> >this function as being not totally foolproof? I can imagine putting
> >a 'incomplete' label on the 'locked' property of a cell. This might
> >very well be a good idea regardless, because right now in the stable
> >branch this checkbox is utterly and completely useless.
> 
> 
> That would surely be a good idea, but imho users will normally use only 
> the manual after the application has failed them.
> 

Of course, but labelling the checkbox as 'incomplete' or 'partly
functional' covers that - it's not in the manual, it's right there in
front of them. If they don't even read the checkbox they're clicking
on.. well, then these users have a problem.

Regards,
Floris Kraak
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