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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Mon Jan 3 10:02:35 +0000 2011 ------- -> toddandmargo Yeah. This issue is older than the hills. Although not an early poster, this coming Saturday will be my 4-year anniversary posting to this issue #. Back in my almost 4-year-old post I wrote that I didn't think it was a bug per se, but a poor design decision. Someone chose to _not_ show the visible version of the space characters at the end of lines, or to allow the cursor to be shown anywhere but smack up against the last printable character on the line. A possible related issue is the decision to show the background of selected text as a simple rectangle, rather than show the outline of the selected characters (as the Big Boys do: MS Word and Word Perfect). Yet another related issue is the behavior of centered text when you add spaces to either end of that text, which is related to the behavior mclay observed. It's all deeply intertwingled. I do not know the skill level of individuals on the team, but could it be that the person assigned this bug feels overwhelmed by the complex interdependencies? Or maybe this issue touches so many bits of code that fixing it is a moving target, and the person assigned to this feels overwhelmed for that reason. Microsoft... I was under the impression they all worked for Sun Microsystems. I mean, Microsoft has a "real" word processor and therefore an ex-MS programmer should know how to design a word processor without having to reinvent the whole UI. The OO team seems like they just made up a pile of "stuff" and threw it into the UI. I'm an ex chip designer, and spoiled by the hardware paradigm I'm crap as a programmer (although I've had a touch of ANSI C in my day). I can't help but wonder if an outsider tried to turn in code with a fix for this bug, would the team accept it? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
