2015-05-08 22:43 GMT+02:00 Rebecca Eaton <mousepol...@ymail.com>: > 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. Microsoft sucks so much, there are no polite words for > them. Why not try to make things better than Microsoft? If you just took > these programs from ten years ago, and spruced them up a bit, that would > pretty much do the trick. > > Some examples: > Your word processor seems to have been redesigned for a smart phone. > 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. > > The default should be that the things that I type stay exactly the way I > typed them. In the early 2000's, it was annoying that it took one button to > change this to the default. Now it's actually 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. 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. I know A LOT of people agree with me about this, and > I don't know why nobody's listening. > > 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. 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. > > There are quite a few operations that I used to do with one or two clicks, > that now take me four or five. 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > > Seriously, this Windows 8 is so incredibly bad, it feels like the > designers are just pooping on consumers. 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. 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. > > 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. > > > Rebecca > > Much of what you described seems to be related to your operating system rather than Apache OpenOffice. You are free to install another operating system if you don't like the one you have. I also complained at lot about that a long time ago, but finally I did something about it and installed another operating system. Never looked back since then. Unfortunately the one I installed also got worse over the years, so now I am planning to install yet another one, I'm not quite sure which yet though. I think Arch would be fine for me, at least I would give it a try.
I tried some of the things that you described, but I don't really get it. For instance, when I right click on a spreadsheet, paste special is there, you said it was not. Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
