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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 5 15:46:55 +0000 2007 ------- Thank you for the reply, and the additional info about Ctrl+drag. The subdivision problem really is quite bad, I can't imagine how any engineer *that has ever used a graphic drawing program before* would implement dividing a measurement unit by offering a box to enter "how many dots to add between endpoint?" -To me it is clearly a case of a programmer who doesn't actually use Draw apps making the control. I don't understand why this hasn't been fixed, all it would take is using exactly what is already there, but adding "n-1" dots when the user enters "n" subdivisions. The result, however, is someone like me who eagerly considered using the application, but immediately ran into an issue like this: -Definitely wrong, and easily fixable- Only to find that the issue was reported three years ago and never fixed. This just sends a message to me that sorely needed fixes to really bad user interface implementations in OpenOffice apparently don't get fixed, and that is enough to send me running and screaming towards a better commercial application. It's really sad that there is not a simple and effective diagramming application for Windows, Omnigraffle is simply an amazing program on Macintosh, with no as-simple and as-powerful equivalent on Windows. OpenOffice Draw was recommended as a possible alternative, but after seeing this giant flaw, I'm turning to Illustrator for my Windows diagramming needs instead. Compared to OpenOffice it is big, overkill, and expensive; but to Adobe's credit, it is engineered by people who really do understand computer drawing, and any flaws like this one in OpenOffice were corrected long ago. I don't know what one has to do, to get this issue fixed in OpenOffice. If three years of knowing about it has resulted in nothing, I hesitate to wonder how long it takes to fix really serious bugs? Personally, I can't take this product seriously if programmers don't take reports of flaws like this seriously. I hope I don't sound too negative, but I had high hopes for OpenOffice, and I think I learned "the hard way" that it's just not the contender it is purported to be. Perhaps a company selling commercial software has a greater interest in improving their products than a company that makes no money on a product by distributing it as free, opensource software. Still, if it's opensource, you'd figure somebody would have corrected this by now. I think I agree with you, maybe there really is nobody using the draw module. My guess is the write module is the most-used OpenOffice component, as an alternative to Word. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
