Hi,
Peter Kupfer wrote:
Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
For native files: * If there is a document title- use it. Otherwise, use the filename.
For imported files: * Default to displaying the filename.
Inconsistency like this is bad. What should happen, when such a document is saved to native format? Will the confusing title appear when the document is reopened? Or else should OOo silently drop the imported title - something the user may have entered on purpose? Last resort would be to save this as a per-document option with native documents, but IMO this variance in behavior (without a noticeable clue as to what's going on) will still confuse users badly.
This is assuming of course that the people complaining here set the title on native documents, not on the word stuff.
That seems difficult. People could just delete the title when they open a document with a title. It requires approximately 4 mouse clicks.
.. if you know where and how to do it. But people that are confused by the unexpected window title usually don't know what is causing this. So if showing the title in the window caption were made an option, I'd make it an expert option that defaults to off. Introducing such options should only be done, when it is close to no effort - or if someone outside the core developers does the work.
Just recently my Mom complained about this: She creates a document. Then, after she edited it at work - using Word - the window caption changed unexpectedly the next time she opens it in OOo. Now this 'title' is (iirc) derived from the first paragraph of the document, so it may at least make sense. But then she often starts a new document by saving a copy of an existing one (which may have some elements or styles she wants to reuse). She edits this new document and saves to a reasonable file name. But the window caption for the new document still shows the old 'title' which is now completely unrelated to the document contents. She had experienced this several times. She had found a clumsy workaround with File-New and copy-pasting the entire content across, but was not happy with this. So she was really grateful when I directed her to the File-Properties dialog and now she knows your ~4 mouse clicks. But she wouldn't have found this on her own. And such 'naive' users are the norm, rather than the exception for a mass product like OOo.
Ciao, Joerg
-- Joerg Barfurth Sun Microsystems - Desktop - Hamburg >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> using std::disclaimer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenOffice.org Configuration http://util.openoffice.org
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