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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Sun Sep 13 02:26:36 +0000 2009 ------- (Anirudh Chohan, 12/09/2009) Issue 35525 CONCLUSIONS: 1) WHY I THINK THIS ENHANCEMENT SHOULD BE PRESENT: • Many softwares listed in the test have all three functionalities; a few have only two. However, the last four softwares—JCREATOR, VISUAL STUDIO, MS WORD, AND MS EXCEL, NOT TO MENTION MS POWERPOINT—include this functionality. This indicates that these softwares, of which JCreator and Visual Studio are used for development and MS Word and MS Excel are used by professionals in the workplace, implement the “CHE” functionality. • Most professionals can then be considered as being familiar with “CHE”. Such professionals may not realise at first what to do with Impress. Eventually they may figure out this problem. However, after this experience their confidence in the product from the point of view of familiarity will go down: they will be wary of readily using features that they used due to familiarity with Microsoft, as they are less confident now that the product is as similar in functionality; this could lead them to experiment more and spend precious time trying to discover shortcut keys and combinations in order to see whether the rules that applied to Microsoft products apply in the case of Impress. SINCE MANY COMPANIES USE OFFICE TOOLS SUPPLIED MY MICROSOFT, WE CAN EXPECT PROFESSIONALS TO BE FAMILIAR WITH THOSE PRODUCTS. IN MY VIEW THIS REQUEST FOR ENHANCEMENT COULD BE VIEWED AS A USABILITY BUG. • If we don’t take this usability issue and similar ones that people come across, we may come up with a product that is useful but which is viewed by users as an oddball as far as usability is concerned and that could be a barrier to its popularity among professionals. 2) Finally, the originator of Issue35525 said that in a textbox the cursor should go to the home of the textbox. I found that this worked in Impress and it did so in a manner similar to MS PowerPoint. The cursor moved to the beginning of the text in a text box when “Ctrl+Home” was pressed and to its end when “Ctrl+End” was pressed. CONFIGURATION: Version : OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 OOO310m19(Build:9420) OS : Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Version 6.0 (Build 6001: Service Pack 1) Platform : PC STEPS FOLLOWED TO TEST: 1. Open the. ppt or .odp file in Impress. 2. Press “Ctrl+Home” and “Ctrl+End”; “Home” and “End”; and “shift+end” and “shift+home”. 3. Note whether the “slides” window goes up or down depending on whether, for example, the “ctrl+home” is pressed or “ctrl+end” is pressed. Try this for all pairs of combinations given and note the results each time. The use of “Home” key alone or in combination with “shift” or “Ctrl” is supposed to take one to the top of the “slides” window and to the first slide; the case is the opposite for “End” and its combinations with “shift” and “Ctrl”. 4. Press “Ctrl+Home” after having brought focus to a text box area of a slide and check whether the cursor moves to the home of the textbox area when the “Ctrl+Home” combination is pressed. To get a better idea of how widely the combinations listed in step 2 are used, I tested them on various softwares listed below. For the sake of ease I use the following list of abbreviations: CHE: “Ctrl” used with “home” and “End” takes one to the first or last slide SHE: “Shift” used with “home” and “End” takes one to the first or last slide HE: “Home” and “End” takes one to the first or last slide The softwares, or the operating system section” My computer”, below are listed with the appropriate abbreviations that indicate that the particular functionality denoted by the abbreviation works: POWER POINT 2007: HE, SHE, CHE GOOGLE CHROME 2.0.172.43: HE,SHE, CHE WinDjView 1.0.3: HE, SHE, CHE MICROSOFT HTML HELP EXECUTABLE: 1. Text window :HE, SHE, CHE 2. “Contents” window: HE, SHE My Computer (browse folders till you get a folder where the scrolling bar is present): HE, CHE MOZILLA FIREFOX 3.5.2: HE, CHE JCREATOR VERSION 4.50.010: CHE MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 2008: CHE MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD 2007: CHE MICROSOFT EXCEL: CHE --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
