Joerg Barfurth wrote: >> Casually, I was readig issue 39486 before reading this.
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=39486
There you have another example of existing functionality that is wasted due to deeply wrong and biased usability scenario.
The strange usability scenarios may have played a minor role in the things that happened with that specification. But in the first place this is something where there was a real usability problem. If I get a document from someone else (e.g. by mail) it should not open at a seemingly random place in the middle. This may utterly confuse less experienced users.
Then, that person should have unchecked the options box. I don't know why SO many people, not just you, don't get this. If someone wants there doc to open at the top you had the option. If I want to continue editing a 40 page doc in the middle, I had the option.
So changing something here was indeed necessary.
Maybe better help, maybe changing how the option was labeled, maybe making it so the default option was to open at top. Now editors and people working on big projects have been left out in the cold.
But the initial ideas to solve this with 'smart' automatisms were (luckily) recognized as flawed in time, so a simpler solution was sought. This is all well so far. But then under time pressure the remaining feature was further 'reduced' in a way that some functionality was lost entirely.
"Some"? All functionality was lost. Now it only opens at the top.
This was the place where noone noticed that doing only the final remaining step alone made no sense. But again starting that work was necessary. Only the execution was lacking.
Yes, the final execution was lacking. I just don't understand how whoever decided this would write a spec, say we will remove this feature, but we will add a shortcut to to make it work for those that need it and then just abandon the shortcut and now the issue is labeled OOo Later. Will it happen in a future 2.0.x or are are talking 3.0?
Joel, my wrath is not really directed at you. You are just the first person brave enough to talk to use about these things, and I would like to know the story behind this and understand why these changes are made.
Thanks a lot for your time.
-- Peter Kupfer OOo user since 'OO4 http://peschtra.tripod.com/open_office/ooo_front.htm
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