On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 01:05 -0600, Peter Kupfer wrote: > Chad Smith wrote: > > Someone in this thread said that OOo has more than 500 - that's > > Five-Hundred > > You are just making up numbers and you have no idea how many like what > feature. Should we just keep the features you find useful because that > must be what the majority like and remove the rest?
He is not making up numbers. I brought this number into the discussion, and I did not invent it either. I made a rough count once, in OOo 1.1.3 IIRC. Just count them yourself if you need a more exact number. A few (not more than 10 IIRC) of these preferences have been eliminated in version 2.0, but the number should still be roughly the same. AFAIK there have even been new preferences introduced. Have a look at the right side of the screenshots at http://www.pangea.at/~ralph/prefs.html I counted 52 *pages* of preferences in "Tools->Options" alone. Each of these pages has several individual preferences. And that is only "Tools->Options". There are also preferences in "Tools-> Configure" and "Tools->XML Filter Settings" amongst others. Spreadsheet prefs are twice in that screenies of 1.1.3, but I did not want to spend hours pho^H^H^Hgimping them. If I have time, I will put a page up of all the preferences in their full glory, and be it only to scare small children ;) And: It is not about "what the majority likes" (even though this is not the worst principle, whole nations are based on this principle, even if some of them have problems counting the votes ;), but about making OpenOffice a better program for its intended audience, and about getting "market share". We'll never get more people using OO if we keep aleniating certain (non-technical -- don't blame them, they are good at other things) types of users, who are just overwhelmed by this sheer complexity. > There has to be a process, not just a mad hack and slash approach to this. Yes, of course. And I hope for 3.0 or 2.1 or whatever this will be done in a coordinated, *designed* way. Current prefs dialog has seemingly grown in an "organical" fashion, it seems, and it need some weeding out IMHO. /ralph --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
