Hi Pedro, Pedro Rosmaninho wrote on 10-06-15 13:41: > I guess it is controversial because there's a hostility of some LO users to > allow direct formatting of the document instead of resorting to Styles. > Therefore, some people consider that direct formatting should be hidden? > > However, many users do prefer to use direct formatting and competing Office > suites provide easy access to direct formatting. I don't know why > developers consider this to be a wrong approach?
From a trainer and migration consultant perspective, I see the mess and grief and productivity loss, along with interoperability issues caused by direct formatting. > Making the access to direct formatting more difficult would just draw > people away from LO to closed source office suites. So the challenge - where the issues are about - is to make working with Styles more natural, visible. If that comes with the price of a _little_ worse availability of direct formatting functions, I think that would be worth it. But maybe that isn't even needed, looking at the great focus of UX to make the best of LibreOffice. Regards, Cor -- Cor Nouws GPD key ID: 0xB13480A6 - 591A 30A7 36A0 CE3C 3D28 A038 E49D 7365 B134 80A6 - vrijwilliger http://nl.libreoffice.org - volunteer http://www.libreoffice.org - The Document Foundation Membership Committee Member -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
