Monday, January 24, 2005 Chad Smith wrote:
Two things here - I understand OOo is a unique program and isn't striving to be like everybody else. I also understand that any hint of OOo being a "MS Office clone" is a capital offense. However when every program on earth does something the same way - there is likely a good reason. I'm not saying it should be accepted blindly, but it is at least something to look into. 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. If I opened a document and it jumped to the 3rd word in the 4th sentence of the 2nd paragraph on page 157 of chapter 6 - I'd be a little concerned. I'd think it was a bug - like it didn't shut down properly or something.
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.
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).
Moreover, the motivation is the Mary & Peter story that I discussed in my first post. And 1.1.x solves the Mary & Peter story, while 2.0 just makes it worse.
This is so maddening and I can't even form words to express the total lack of logic that I am seeing. I just want to start typing expletives because my brain can't follow the train of thought that caused the solution to an alleged to problem to not only not solve the problem *but make it worse!*
-- Peter Kupfer OOo user since 'OO4 http://peschtra.tripod.com/open_office/ooo_front.htm
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