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.
No, if you read the document I originally alluded to, it is very clear that this setting will be removed. There is even a picture of what the new settings screen will look like when it is done. They just haven't bothered to fix the whole thing. Just removed the functionalitity withour providing a shortcut as is also said needs to be done in the file I mentioned.
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?
I think this is a fantastic idea!
-- Peter Kupfer OOo user since 'OO4 http://peschtra.tripod.com/open_office/ooo_front.htm
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