Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

> A-hem. WordPerfect has had the *option* to set a "QuickMark"
> (unnamed bookmark) on save, and (another) option to go to the
> QuickMark on open. Now, I'm not entering the "standard" and
> "everyone does this" discussion because it'd make a long rant,
> but the point is that as long as it is an option, it's an
> excellent thing because it means power users have what they
> want, and "other" users have their "standard" behavior.

Well, OOo does at least the first part (the screen position and view
data is stored along with the document), but it fails in the second
(differently to OOo1.1 where you had the choice). I agree that choice
would be better here.

>From reading the specification I can't understand why the option was
removed. The "Peter&Mary" scenario would be served well with just
changing the default to not restore the view data. Peter could get the
document opened where he left it, but Mary (with the default setting)
would open the documents on the first page always. The same is possible
with OOo1.1 but needs some manual action of Mary - where's the pain?

So the "problem" of different settings for Calc and the others remains.
Unfortunately the specification doesn't explain why Calc should restore
the view, but the others shouldn't. But anyway, if anybody wanted
different behavior for Writer and Calc the default could be made module
dependant.

But please be patient: hard working people sometimes fail, so even if it
will turn out that this was a bad move, don't be too harsh. ;-)
The shortcut is at least a handy workaround.

Maybe we could make it a "hidden" option, because a quick look into the
code showed that the configuration setting is still not removed from it.

> Otherwise, what you get is a *crippled* product. Like the
> powerbar issue (and yes, Mathias, I like the way you describe
> how it could be RE-implemented in some future version).

Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. :-)

Best regards,
Mathias

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Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead
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