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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Thu Apr 22 22:14:20 +0000 2010 ------- >From reading this comments I seem to find that SOME of developers of OpenOffice are arrogant or ignorant. Note that I'm sure MOST developers on this project are not arrogant at all and are superb at what they do. So please don't get offended if you are one of the good guys or gals. I want to get this point across though: software engineers don't necessarily make good designers!!!! Some do sure... but a lot can't design! The reason being if someone is ULTRA technical then they design for ultra technical people... this is a fail! This is DEFINITELY a bug, not a software bug agreed, but it IS a design bug. For those that can't see this are just bad designers. Sorry if that's hard to swallow but that's a fact. I have noticed lot's of bug reports for OpenOffice where the whole 'Not a bug' comes in to play. The designers (not the engineers) need to start being a bit more honest about usability. Good design is easy, well at least for me. All user interfaces from microwaves, to cars, to MP3 players to mobile phones should be intuitive top most people for most functionality WITHOUT having to read the manual. If I have to read a manual to use a DVD fail it means the designers have failed... most DVD players ARE intuitive but some are badly designed (Yes I said badly DESIGNED). It worries me that people are so retarded at basic design skills. Of course my advice will be ignored and people will keep being bad at what they do lol. Software engineers should stick to writing code NOT designing software (unless they happen to be skilled and TRAINED in design - YES you need to be trained to design... to think otherwise is extremely arrogant or ignorant!) No offence guys! If everyone knew their limits of expertise we'd be living in a much better world. I DO have expertise on good design and it's a fact that this issue is a design flaw. It is NOT up for debate in my book, it's a blatant fact. Here's the test. Ask 20 random users of OpenOffice (from a cross-section of different types of user) and ask them to reproduce this bug. Most people will find it rather bizarre... this IS a design flaw. The phrase 'unusual behaviour' EQUALS 'bad design'. End of. I am starting to get really annoyed at poor design in this world... it's not that hard come on! --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
