On 8/13/13 6:55 PM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > 2013/8/13 Fernando Cassia <fcas...@gmail.com> > >> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> But if >>> we change it it annoys potentially other users. The question is what >>> would be the correct and most often wanted default. >> >> What is the purpose of showing margins, and by extension, seeing text >> smaller, (less zoom level)?. Is there any data the user can put on >> Margins? change the margin colors? put pictures in margins?. In short: >> what use is there for margins taking a sizeable portion of the screen >> size? >> > > > I do not see those margin you talk about and for a good reason: I never use > maximized windows. I hate maximized windows. Other people love maximized > windows, of course, but many of us just hate them: how do you count how > many people is on each camp? > > Default values are an important discussion point and I started a couple of > threads about defaults in the past, but defaults are also an incredible > difficult question where almost all possible answers are at the same time > wrong and right for someone. > > I propose to start (again) a discussion about default values, but not now: > let's concentrate on 4.0.1.
please start a new thread for this topic. It's a feature/enhancement discussion and doesn't belong to the topic of this thread Thanks Juergen > > Regards > Ricardo > > > >> >> I'm not saying we should NOT show margings, after all, in "Optimal >> width", a portion of the margins is seen, but not 50-100 pixels of >> them, on every side. >> >> I'm not even saying the view with margins is wrong, maybe someone >> wants to look at the "bigger picture". But for TYPING text, "optimal >> width" is the best. So, again, why isn't that option the default?. >> >> Maybe the UX guys can comment?. And yes, I'd love to see a survey. And >> even better, some telemetry (like Firefox' ) about how many users, >> when typing or browsing text documents, end up viewing the document in >> "optimize width" mode). >> >> Thanks for taking the time to answer, btw. Appreciate it. >> Best regards, >> >> FC >> -- >> During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a >> revolutionary act >> - George Orwell >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
