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Accepting issue.
Folks, I haven't read the discussion yet, so I need time for that.
There were various reasons we saw the need to change the name of the Stylist.
But can say a few things off the top of my head.
The funny thing is, the window of the tool never was titled "Stylist", as the
window title changed according to whichever type of style had been selected
(Paragraph Styles, Character Styles, etc) so for many users the only way they
would have identified this tool as the "Stylist" would have been the tooltip
over the icon. That was one of the reasons we changed the non-standard behavior
of the window to now retain a stable title that could clearly identify the
window and be used in documentation.
BTW, the OOoauthors documentation for OOo 2.0 is already written and refers to
"Styles and Formatting window" (e.g see
http://oooauthors.org/groups/authors/userguide2/commonfeatures/draft_pub/Styles_GS_V2.sxw/download)
, likewise the online Help provided by Sun has already been written with "Styles
and Formatting" and translated into the 10+ languages that Sun pays for.
We by no means wanted to upset present users of OOo and StarOffice, but we
discovered that most users (perhaps, less saavy users than those who are fully
immersed in the OOo project and especially the marketing thereof) did not know
what the Stylist did and if they ever did finally understand it, it had taken
sometimes months for them to reach that point.
As you all agree, the styles functionality is better than in Microsoft Office
and should continue to be marketed as such. There is no reason why the community
has to stop calling it the "Stylist" in colloquial speech. The entry "Stylist"
will still be in the online Help so users can find it easily.
More later...
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