i completely agree with you.
please Harold Fuchs-2, add your voice to the petition: we are already
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Tommy27 wrote:
keep signing the petition:
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/stoprenaissance/
Please consider moving the petition to a service that doesn't suck as
much. There are a lot of petition sites to choose from. Choosing an
un-serious site shows that the petition is as un-serious
Tommy27 wrote:
IMHO, Mathias Bauer's was a classic example of politician talk...
a lot of words just to confuse users...
he pretend we believe that Renaissance is not copyinf Ribbon...
that's simply ridicolous: any man with eyes on this planet sees that the
new GUI is clearly inspired to
Some OpenOffice developers announced, few time ago, a great (in their minds)
project: Trying to copy ugly, unusable Ribbon interface, made by Micro$oft
for Word and other Office products
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/prototyping_a_new_ui_july
Lars Nooden wrote:
Thanks, Mathias,
Mathias Bauer wrote:
What we are trying to achieve is a context sensitive user interface.
Which if done less than perfectly is a fancy way of saying 'confusing'
and 'complex' ;)
Well, perfection most probably won't be reached ever, but I agree that
Harold Fuchs wrote:
We can only comment on what we are shown. What I saw was terrible and I
said so. If what was shown does not represent the intentions then show
us what is intended. Philosophical arguments about UIs and context
sensitive menus are a waste of time and effort. The only
Mathias Bauer wrote:
I can even imagine a much simpler approach: just keep the old UI as an
option and use usage tracking to find out how many users switch to it.
Studies for the courts found in 1996 that even back then 60% kept the
default settings. By now it's close to 100%. I've tried
I have a new challenge which seems to have only occurred since upgrading to
OOo 3.1, but that might be a coincidence - I may have inadvertently altered
my template.
I have a Draw template for a DL envelope with my company details and return
address already on it. All I have to do to mail
Mathias Bauer nospamfor...@gmx.de wrote in message
news:4a9e23d4.30...@gmx.de...
Harold Fuchs wrote:
We can only comment on what we are shown. What I saw was terrible and I
said so. If what was shown does not represent the intentions then show
us what is intended. Philosophical arguments
Menus are a tool for browsing through the functionality of an
application and rearrangig the menu elements is counter productive. But
for other UI elements, especially those that consume more screen space,
it is a useful concept to reduce clutter.
The first thing that I do on a new OOo
Harold Fuchs wrote:
If you really want to enhance the UI, implement the facility where
***every*** possible option is available from the keyboard so that real
typists don't have to keep switching between it and the mouse.
+1
... There's an
ancient organisation in Japan responsible for
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Do you use professional usability labs? These are organisations that get
people in off the street to try to use a piece of software. Typically the
people don't have any training. They are observed interviewed to find what
comes easily and what doesn't. The results are
Philippe Faure wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has heard of how the importing of Wordperfect
and Quattro Pro files?
I haven't been able to find anything.
thanks
Philippe
I import WordPerfect files without a problem.
bill
@Mathias
My dislike for Ribbon is not just because is a MS product...
If i was just a MS hater i would use a Mac... while i prefer Windows to
MacOS.
Regarding the Ribbon i had chance to try it on Office 2007 and i can tell
that it really sucks... it's context sensitivity is a pain in the ass...
I am using Open Office 3.1.1
Java version is: 1.6.0_15
I am using a PC with Vista 32
In the Calc spreadsheet, I do not see any information indicating the
number of rows (lines)
in my spreadsheet.
In other spreadsheets this is usually at the bottom of the page; is
there some setting
that I have
On 09/01/2009 02:31 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
John Kaufmann wrote:
In a message dated 2009.08.26 06:01 -0500, Richard Travers wrote:
How do you turn a single-spaced Write document into double-spaced?
Why not simply Search and Replace (Cmd-F), put one space in Search and
two in Replace by,
Philippe Faure wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has heard of how the importing of
Wordperfect and Quattro Pro files?
I haven't been able to find anything.
thanks
Philippe
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How do I get rid of these constant pop ups asking me to upgrade Java everytime
I turn on my PC, about 3-5 times per day.
I don`t know who Open Office is and I don`t want to know. I went through the
website and there is not 1 link (or I couldn`t find it)
simply explaining how I can get them
Dear
Sir
I
work since years with Open Office, and
other things constructed from SUN, like Open Solaris, Java, MySQL
.and other.
But
in Open office, there are some negatives like:
1. No Arabic Language Grammar and Orthography in English version.
2. I want you put the
*Dear Sir
*
*I work since years with Open Office, and other things constructed from
SUN, like Open Solaris, Java, MySQL .and other.*
*But in Open office, there are some negatives like:*
1.
*No Arabic Language Grammar and Orthography in English version.*
2.
*I want you put
Dear
Sir
I
work since years with Open Office, and
other things constructed from SUN, like Open Solaris, Java, MySQL
.and other.
But
in Open office, there are some negatives like:
No
Arabic Language Grammar and Orthography in English version.
I
want you put the
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 18:28, Mathias Bauer wrote:
Additionally, let's discuss if the old toolbars should be used as an
alternative UI. Possibly people prefer a mediocre UI just because they are
used to it - that's a valid decision and IMHO shouldn't be ignored.
Given a choice between the
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 22:59, Merouane Louma wrote:
in Open office, there are some negatives like:
1. No Arabic Language Grammar and Orthography in English version.
The Arabic language grammar checker for OOo is best not used. (For
starters, it is biased towards the type of errors
2009/9/2 Merouane Louma merouanelo...@gmail.com:
*Dear Sir
*
*I work since years with Open Office, and other things constructed from
SUN, like Open Solaris, Java, MySQL .and other.*
*But in Open office, there are some negatives like:*
1.
*No Arabic Language Grammar and
Please stop being an idiot. There's no need to write the same
”question” or message over and over again. Just wait for people to
reply. If nobody do, well, then I guess nobody has anything to say.
Johnny Rosenberg
2009/9/2 Merouane Louma loumamerou...@hotmail.com:
Dear
Sir
I
work since
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
Please stop being an idiot. There's no need to write the same
”question” or message over and over again. Just wait for people to
reply. If nobody do, well, then I guess nobody has anything to say.
Johnny Rosenberg
2009/9/2 Merouane Louma loumamerou...@hotmail.com:
This is the second time i've sent this, but i don't see it appearing
in the Digest. i'm going to format it as Plan Text and see what happens.
i hope this is the correct forum for this...
i'm still trying to get this to work...
i've created two tables: Dates and Visits. This is a
Fred Frazelle wrote:
This is the second time i've sent this, but i don't see it
appearing in the Digest. i'm going to format it as Plan Text and see
what happens.
i hope this is the correct forum for this...
i'm still trying to get this to work...
i've created two tables: Dates
On 08/31/2009 05:25 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
Hi,
I want to install openoffice from source code on a linux machine. I
run 'configure'. But I got the following machine.
configure: error: cups/cups.h could not be found. libcupsys2-dev or
cups???-devel missing?
I did a search. But I don't find a
Jonathan Kaye wrote:
NoOp wrote:
On 08/06/2009 07:21 AM, M Henri Day wrote:
I think most of us can agree that the OOo GUI is getting a bit long in
the tooth, but I'm not sure that everybody wants a needed update to tread
the primorose path taken by Microsoft Office. List members
Harold Fuchs wrote:
2009/9/3 Drew Jensen usersl...@paintedfrogceramics.com
Harold Fuchs wrote:
You might be better off asking in the Base section within the OOo forum.
It's at http://www.oooforum.org. You need to subscribe (free) before
you can post questions or answers. Like this mail list
2009/9/3 Drew Jensen usersl...@paintedfrogceramics.com
Harold Fuchs wrote:
You might be better off asking in the Base section within the OOo forum.
It's at http://www.oooforum.org. You need to subscribe (free) before
you can post questions or answers. Like this mail list it's run by
Martin Hoy wrote:
How do I get rid of these constant pop ups asking me to upgrade Java everytime I turn on my PC, about 3-5 times per day.
I don`t know who Open Office is and I don`t want to know. I went through the
website and there is not 1 link (or I couldn`t find it)
simply explaining
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
Please stop being an idiot. There's no need to write the same
”question” or message over and over again. Just wait for people to
reply. If nobody do, well, then I guess nobody has anything to say.
Johnny Rosenberg
2009/9/2 Merouane Louma
Harold Fuchs wrote:
You might be better off asking in the Base section within the OOo
forum. It's at http://www.oooforum.org. You need to subscribe (free)
before you can post questions or answers. Like this mail list it's run
by volunteers but tends to be more specialised.
Just a FYI -
Fred Frazelle wrote:
This is the second time i've sent this, but i don't see it appearing
in the Digest. i'm going to format it as Plan Text and see what happens.
i hope this is the correct forum for this...
i'm still trying to get this to work...
i've created two tables: Dates
On 09/02/2009 04:46 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
Martin Hoy wrote:
...
How do I get rid of these constant requests to update Java? It only
asks do it later or do it now. Wahat about do you want us to
go away for ever. Answer is Yes, Please.
We are nothing to do with Java. We are users of
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Mathias Bauer nospamfor...@gmx.de wrote in message
news:4a9e23d4.30...@gmx.de...
Harold Fuchs wrote:
We can only comment on what we are shown. What I saw was terrible and I
said so. If what was shown does not represent the intentions then show
us what is intended.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:32 PM, NoOpgl...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
On 08/31/2009 05:25 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
Hi,
I want to install openoffice from source code on a linux machine. I
run 'configure'. But I got the following machine.
configure: error: cups/cups.h could not be found. libcupsys2-dev or
Since up grading to OOo 3.1 (running under Windows XP) Copy and Paste is not
working properly, in some instances.
When I copy the contents of a 'name and address' cell in a Calc worksheet,
into text box in a Draw document:
1. the first line copies across as font size 12pt
2. the second
well said.
the double GUI (standard and Renaissance/Ribbon) would be the best solution
and would put the word end to this controversy.
however this has been asked many times in many forums and newsgroups but
many developers seemed not to like very much that idea.
i don't know if the can't or
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