On 09-May-15 06:43, Rebecca Eaton wrote:
Hi there! I've been using your spreadsheet and word processor for at least 15
years (unless you're not that old... as long as I can remember, anyway). I'm
sorry to say that the usability of both has gone down quite a bit in the past
few years, and I suspect that it's because you're trying to copy Microsoft.
What exactly has gone down? Please give facts not emotions.
Microsoft sucks so much, there are no polite words for them. Why not try to
make things better than Microsoft?
It's already better (in some ways) than Microsoft Office.
If you just took these programs from ten years ago, and spruced them up a bit,
that would pretty much do the trick.
What exactly need to be spruced up? Please give facts? not emotions.
Some examples:
Your word processor seems to have been redesigned for a smart phone.
OpenOffice is not available for smart phones, but rather for smart people.
Smart phones are for people who don't need to do huge amounts of research,
cutting and pasting, formatting, etc. You need to get some people to design
things like word processors and spreadsheets who actually use them on a pretty
much daily basis, because people who do all their typing on a phone can't
imagine the things that we used to be able to do.
Again OpenOffice is not available for smart phones, so your statement
doesn't make sense.
The default should be that the things that I type stay exactly the way I typed
them.
Do you mean when you type ABC it appears as XYZ? If not explain in more
detail what is not working.
In the early 2000's, it was annoying that it took one button to change this to
the default. Now it's actually impossible.
What exactly is impossible?
I' often have to actually change what I want to write in the document, because
I can't stop the damn program from changing it. I click on all kinds of boxes
that say they will stop it, but they don't.
Could you be more precise on which boxes you click and what you expect
the program to do.
If you want to make the default be like a smartphone, could I please have one, easy to
find button to click on, that says "leave my goram typing the way I smegging well
typed it." Please, I'm begging.
Sorry to say, but you're not begging you only complaining.
I know A LOT of people agree with me about this, and I don't know why nobody's
listening.
We all are listening here, but maybe the people you know haven't asked
for help.
When I used to right-click on something, the box would open in a location
appropriate to the box. Now it opens relative to the cursor.
What do you mean with clicking on something? Please give facts.
This means that if what I've clicked on isn't at the top of the page, I can't
paste, because the bottom of the box is below this stupid-ass see-through
monstrosity of a taskbar at the bottom of the screen (where I've lost actual
windows before, because I accidentally dragged them to the bottom of the
screen, and it let me drag it down, but then wouldn't let me click on the
document once it was under the taskbar). So have to scroll down, and click
again.
So you accidentally drag a window down below the task bar and blame
OpenOffice, that's not fair.
There are quite a few operations that I used to do with one or two clicks, that
now take me four or five.
What operations are you talking about? Examples please.
I would really like to have back the ability to right-click in the document and get the
option for "paste special." I do this approximately a million times a day, and
I curse you every time. Not you personally, more programmers in general.
Guess what programmers think about users.
When I click on something, the document keeps jumping around to put that line
more in the middle of the page. I put that line right where I wanted it, so I
can see all the lines I'm working on, and I don't want it to move.
Than you need to tell the program not to move lines. Maybe you need to
learn how to use Styles
The cursor doesn't disappear anymore when I'm typing, even though I've checked
all the appropriate boxes. This is so annoying. I start typing, and then I
can't see what I'm working on.
I didn't know there was a box that allow the cursor to disappear. Could
you explain where I can find that box?
Seriously, this Windows 8 is so incredibly bad, it feels like the designers are
just pooping on consumers.
Could you inform us which smart phone has Windows 8 as operating system?
That's not the word I'm really thinking... It's obscene that they still
control the market, when their product gets worse and worse every year. There
are so many functions that it doesn't do at all, and these m-f-ing pop-up
things mean that I have to spend a lot of time carefully positioning the mouse
so they won't all pop up, and make my freaking windows disappear, or make it
impossible to click on what I need to click on. Now is the perfect time to
take them down. I wish now that I'd kept up with my programming, because I
think that I could easily write something better than Windows.
If you ready with rewriting Windows let us know, but by the way did you
know that OpenOffice is also available on other Operating Systems.
I have to think that this is related to the fact that IT companies used to pay
$70 an hour for geniuses, and now they're paying $20 an hour for recent
graduates who don't really use computers to do anything except gaming and
chatting. No offense meant if you're
one of these graduates, but you really want some people involved who spend a
lot of time using the programs they design, for smarty-pants stuff.
I think you people need to get together, and buy a few geniuses, and write
something that fricking well works for people who aren't teenagers. I know
it's hard, when education is no longer a priority, and some government
officials are actively fighting against it. But you could even just take the
best features from Windows 3.1 through Windows 98, and add the stuff that we
need today, and it would be much, much better, without really needing to
innovate. I know this isn't in Apache's mandate, but maybe you know someone
who could make this happen. I'm so sick of this suckage. I'm begging you,
please stop going downhill right behind Microsoft. They've given up on hiring
good people, or listening to them, I dunno. It's too depressing, for someone
who grew up on a Commodore 64, and saw computers get better and better every
year for such a long time.
I grew up in the same time and agree with you that computers got
better over time, so if the computers got better why
are you so upset?
Sorry I'm so excited about this, but I hope you understand. I spend A LOT of
time with these things. Thanks for listening. I know that if you can make
this happen, it will help you get the edge over Microsoft. Good luck.
We are not in war with Microsoft.
Rebecca
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