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Status|CLOSED |UNCONFIRMED
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Resolution|INVALID |
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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Feb 28 16:54:21 +0000
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Sorry to seem obtuse. I understand your point but I believe this design
decision was originally faulty because:
1) Office computers very often do not have speakers. This is so for the 100
computers in my office. However sound is not explicitly muted, so no visual
bells. Therefore sound feedback may not be working (same for my linux laptop,
sound turned down so bash autocompletion doesn't annoy me).
2) The whole point of an autosave function is to save intermittently for
safety, but to do so unobtrusively. Interfering with text input is not cool
because the user is not always looking at the status bar or working with volume
turned on. This means the user will wierdly not see keypresses made, which is
counterintuitive - enough that I have noticed it several times. You need to
listen to your usability testers.
3) "Current doc is being saved so it can't be edited" is really a strange point
to make. OOo makes the decision to flush the keyboard buffer after autosave,
does it not? If so reversing that decision would solve the problem.
I hope you will reconsider. As more business people use the software this point
will come up again and again. I don't think this happens in MS Word at least.
I am unconvinced that enough effort has been made to ask real world users
whether this is a problem or not. I believe it is and have just finished typing
10,000 words with it happening only once in this document.
If you really don't want to fix it, how about at least making the screen flash
or something in addition to your beeping or whatever the auditory feedback is
during saving which I have never, ever heard due to (1) above. I can
*guarantee* you that people who are just using OOo as a tool for work, who work
in an office without speakers on their computers or with speakers turned off
(very common I believe) would call it a bug for their keypresses to be
willfully ignored silently, especially if they can easily be pasted at the
cursor when autosave is done at least using 1980s technology.
Not trying to seem annoying but to give you the reasons for my post. Thanks for
your efforts!
Matt Rosin
Tokyo, Japan
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