Bug#580698: bibus: Finalizing hangs Bibus

[Jan Beyer]

Hi Kingsley,

just another follow-up mail. ;-)
Did you have the chance to test bibus again?

Have a nice summer!

Best Regards,
Jan

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:01 -0700, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> Thank you for conscientiously following up, and
> for previously explaining that bibus requires
> documents to be saved under a new name when
> finalizing citations.
> 
> That was news to me.
> 
> I haven't had an opportunity to test it yet, as
> I'm waiting on a Czech co-author to get back to me
> before I have another go at editing the document.
> 
> Best regards,
> Kingsley
> 
> On 05/25/10 20:50, Jan Beyer wrote:
> > Hello Kingsley,
> > 
> > just wanted to ask again, whether your trouble with bibus still persists...
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Jan
> > 
> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Betreff: Fwd: Re Bug#580698: bibus: Finalizing hangs Bibus
> > Datum: Mon, 10 May 2010 21:09:28 +0200
> > Von: Jan Beyer <jan at beathovn.de>
> > An: 580698 at bugs.debian.org, "Kingsley G. Morse Jr." <change at nas.com>
> > 
> > Hello Kingsley,
> > 
> > Pierre, the upstream author of bibus, replied to my mail (see below).
> > In short:
> >  * The proposed solution does not seem to be a clean one.
> >  * Could you please cross-check, that you use bibus correctly, i.e.
> >    when you finalize, you save the resulting document under a *new*
> >    filename - neither the original one nor "private:stream". So, do not use
> >    the "Save"-button, but use "Save As..." instead.
> > 
> > Does the last comment "fix" your problem, or should we dig deeper?
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Jan
> > 
> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Betreff: 	Re Bug#580698: bibus: Finalizing hangs Bibus
> > Datum: 	Mon, 10 May 2010 12:39:39 +0200
> > Von: 	Pierre Martineau <pierre.martineau at valdorel.fnclcc.fr>
> > Antwort an: 	pierre.martineau at inserm.fr
> > An: 	jan at beathovn.de
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > This is unfortunately a bad fix.
> > The proposed fix will replace the open OOo document and you will thus
> > lose your unfinalized work.
> > 
> > 'private:stream' is working. The problem is usually a bad use.
> > The problem is that the document is named 'private:stream' and some
> > people try just to hit the "save" command. This will result in a crash.
> > Instead you must chose "Save as" and give a new name.
> > I never succeeded in finding a way to inactivate the save button
> > unfortunately.
> > 
> > The name 'private:stream' is due to a OOo mechanism to create a document
> > without saving it to the disk.
> > A possibility would be to save the doc in a temporary file, but again we
> > will get problems since many people will hit the save button and will
> > never find their document since it will be located in some temporary
> > directory.
> > 
> > I never found a good solution to this problem. I also never reproduced
> > the errors reported by others.
> > You can have a look at the following topic
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/bibus-biblio/forums/forum/380178/topic/3532542/index/page/2 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > You will see that after a lot of discussion, the user finally realized
> > that he was not using bibus correctly.
> > 
> > Pierre
> > 
> > 
>