Dear Sir or Madam:
Some weeks ago, I have installed the developmental version of OpenOffice
3.0 on my computer. Today I wanted to report some fault or shortcomings, I
have found during the last days. However, I have found it difficult, to
find the right address for this on your webpages, which are confusing in
this and other respects.
With regard to that version, I have to say, that I have, so far, not
experienced major problems with it, but found among others the following
shortcomings:
General:
• The colour palette is a major problem:
(1) It is a little small and lacks certain common colours, e.g. there is
no real orange and the only «pale green» is actually a pale cyan.
(2) I have so far not been able to locate the file, which means, that I
had to create the additional colours anew each time I used a different
computer or had installed the program completely anew. There should be a
file called «palette» or the like at a ‹logical› place, and it should be
possible to add not only colours to this pallette, but to create own,
alternative palettes, which can be used simultaneously.
(3) There should be a standard, automatic procedure for naming added
colours, which names them after their composition, e.g. «R: 000 + G: 255
+ B: 127» were the number are taken automatically from the values set for
the three basic colours. These automatic names should be editable, if
wanted, of course.
Base:
• There should be an «Import» function e.g. for importing spreadsheets as
tables. Albeit this is already possible through copy & paste, it is
difficult to find the way to do this.
• When importing spreadsheets from Calc with number which are displayed in
unusual ways, e.g. with a space as thousands separator, these numbers are
not recognized as numbers, that is, are replaced by zeroes if one sets the
field type as numeric instead of text (varchart).
Calc:
• It would be gould, if an easier, clearer, programming-like way for
creating own functions would be implemented, accompanied by a sufficient
manual.
• One should e.g. be able to define calendars and similar lists in an
rather easy, clear way.
• In the 2.x versions, there were, I think, problems, when opening or
importing or copying & pasting e.g. files with numbers with a dot as
decimal separator, when in the program this separator was set to be a
comma, or the like. I do not know, whether these problems still persist ...
Writer:
• In the 2.x versions, I had problems with links in websites. They often
did not work for unknown reasons.
• One should be able to replace fonts in the whole documents by a
respective dialog, where one can choose the font to be replaced (e.g. one
which is not installed) and the font by which it should replaced.
• There seems to be a problem to reset a text to a style feature from
which it has been ‹exempted›: E.g., if I a text has the style "default",
but has been set in a font different from that one, and shal then be reset
fully to "default", this is not possible directly (but maybe via a
different style).
. . .
Regards,
Stefan H. Reissmann
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