From kde-bugs-dist  Fri Mar 12 07:24:16 2004
From: Christian Mueller <cmueller () gmx ! de>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 07:24:16 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: [Bug 77185] Open a file in read-only mode if it has already been
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------- Additional Comments From cmueller gmx de  2004-03-12 08:24 -------
A related issue that is probably common in mixed environments: 

The company I work for uses MS Windows *and* Linux.  
Office documents reside on a SMB share.  

As long as only MS Office / Windows is used users are notified 
if they're trying to edit a document someone else has opened.  

But if I do it from my Linux machine this does not work:
I browse the share using the smb:// protocol and click 
a document.  The file is downloaded, OpenOffice comes up, 
I make my changes, save it and exit.  
Then KDE asks me if I want to upload my version. 
This overwrites any concurrent changes made by colleagues. 

>From a user's point of view (and from the PHB's) this is critical 
because hours of work may be lost that way, without even noticing.
At least at first :-). 

(Yes, this is not koffice-specific, but that's what the original 
wish states, too.)