Hello my name is Frederick Wessling
Please allow me to start by
saying how much I enjoy openoffice and use it almost everyday. It is the
only office suite I use at home and on the road.
A thought
just occured to me a few minutes ago and I thought I'd bring it to your
attention.
What is one of the biggest highlights of Mozilla-based
browser (other than security and Cross platform availability)? The
ability to do tabbed browsing. Would it be at all possible to have a tab
for documents in OpenOffice?
I don't know much about how the interals
of OO work but, atleast from what it appears the base of the office suite
is universal to all front-ends thus presumably making it possible to have
tabs that could span document types e.g
Tab1 containing a text
document that is a report
Tab2 containing a spreadsheet that you're
pulling the data for the report from
Tab3 containing a presentation
document that you're making regarding said report in Tab1
Also this
would help reduce the amount of open windows I would have to go through
when
using ALT+TAB. True I could use CTRL+TAB to switch between
desktop BUT unfortunetly not all OS GUI's have such abilities. Even if
tabs can't span document types if you're working on several documents of
the same type it would still be a great improvment IMHO.
Also I
would suggest to make it familure key-combination ALT+PgUP / PgDWN
But that key binding might be used by another process say the GUI for
some other reason.
Thus I also suggest if possible allow the user to
change the Key-combination but have it default to ALT+:PgUP/PgDWN. Also
it's fits with the OpenSource Free as in Freedom (of the user to control
what's going on in their computer). Also the tabbed viewing feature could
be disable if a user doesn't want it for whatever reason. The tabs don't
have to be overly large just large enough to list their file names.
One more thing occured to me and has occured to alot of other
people I have talked to. We would like to see some CLI interperter for
ODT formats at least the text files. Because I have some blind friends
who cannot use OpenOffice due to accessibility and would just like to be
able to render the odt text files in the console. Much like antiword
renders .doc files
Also great job on the imporvments in the PDF
output wonderful.
Thank you for your time.
Frederick Wessling
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