Daniel Carrera wrote:

> Chad Smith wrote:
> 
>> Everyone program I've every used (and I 
>> have over 15 word processors or office suites that I play with and test) 
>> starts the cursor at the top of the document whenever you open it.  
>> That's normal.  That's standard.  That's what people expect.
> 
> That should be a setting :-)
> Because having the document start where you left off can be inmensely 
> useful. Especially for avid writers like me.

And it still *is* a setting. Obviously there's a bug if it doesn't work.

> Gnome has an interesting way to approach this. Each application has a 
> preferences window, but it's always very simple, very minimal. Only the 
> 10% of the entries that 90% of the people want.
> 
>  "But what about the other 90% of the options?"
> 
> The other 90% is still available, but it's well hidden behind a tool 
> called "GConf". This tool has a massive list of every option imaginable. 
> So the options can still be set, but they don't take away from usability.

OOo setttings could be used in the same way. There are already a lot of
settings you can't change in the "Options" dialog, and I agree that it
might be preferable to remove even more from this dialog, but not from
the configuration files itself. You can use a decent XML editor to
change the files directly (or even a text editor could be used). That
should be enough for experienced users, shouldn't it?

Best regards,
Mathias

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Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead
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