Ralph wrote: > While I personally would prefer the previous behaviour by a
+1 > OpenOffice has about 500 preferences last time I counted them very roughly. > *Anything* that reduces preferences is a good thing. Gomma Gamma. Choice is a good thing. It allows people to customize their settings, to suit there needs. I will grant that most people leave the default settings, but some of us have come to love/appreciate some of the non-default settings. > The current preferences dialog is just not comprehensible for The solution to that is better UI design, not deleting features. > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=31190 That specific feature is an example of one of OOo's strengths. That people don't understand it, as an example of how bad the built in Help files, and some of the supporting documentation is. > > Why is this? Because users might get confused. > But that is a very good reason! OpenOffice should meet the user's expectation, My expectation is that the title bar reflects the title of the document. Right now I have five files with the identical name --- they are in different directories --- but the titles are different. If I had to go just by file names, I'd be lost. >Most users never set or use the document title, So usability is sacrificed in favor of the masses that have never learned how to use their tools correctly. What will be next, abolishing stylist, since it confuses most people new to OOo? [They have already gutted the name, so why not gut the feature at the same time? ] > So don't use extensions! Double click on a file with no extension in Windows, and see what happens. > work they have done so far. 2.0 will be a great release. Depends upon what you use OOo for. If you write in Hebrew, or Arabic, it looks like the best version to use will be OOo 1.1.2, for the foreseeable future. If you use a Complex Text language other than Mongolian, then OOo 2.0 is looking like the best version to use. xan jonathon -- Monolingualism is a curable disease. Carlos Fuentes --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
