Bug 83756

Summary: Allow soliloquies in comments
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: sonajaqufe
Component: LibreOfficeAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: enhancement CC: ilmari.lauhakangas, jbfaure
Priority: medium    
Version: 4.3.0.4 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Bug Blocks: 106179    

Description sonajaqufe 2014-09-11 09:45:54 UTC 
Hello!

Answering is only possible to a comment made by another (or anonymous) author. Both Google Docs and Microsoft Office allow this. Being able to add answers to own comments can be helpful, for example in the illustration and recoding of thought processes, chains of arguments etc.

In LibreOffice, simply editing a comment and adding the new info (optionally removing the old) is not always helpful. For example, the new time-stamp isn't added and additions are not visually distinct. Implementing the possibility of answering own comments would IMHO make the comment system more useful.

Thank you :-)
Comment 1 sonajaqufe 2014-09-11 09:55:06 UTC 
PS: Based on experience with v4.3.0.4 only, but since no mention of "comments" is made in https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.3 I assume this request is still valid.
Comment 2 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2014-09-14 16:40:03 UTC 
I agree. Having the possibility to answer his own comments, will allow to keep the date and time of your different answers. It is not currently possible because you can only modify your own comments.

Valid enhancement, set status to NEW.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2021-09-26 19:02:49 UTC 
Replying to your own comments works now, I don't have time to find out the commit that made it work. Apparently there were some changes in 2019 that enabled it and disabled it and later it got enabled again.