Enrique wrote:

> Dear Mathias, the point is not how much work have been involved in 
> getting this again, but the effort wasted in a silly usability test, 
> time wasted in making up the decision and writing a specs document to 
> remove that functionality from the quickstarter. If NO designer were had 
> thinked about touching a single line of code here, what a saving of 
> developer time!

Agreed. I pointed out several times that I for myself never was fond of
removing the quickstarter menu. But please don't spoil it for me: I'm
just happy to have it back finally. :-)

> 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.

I also don't like this decision, IMHO I already pointed that out here on
the list. But please don't construct a general problem out of it. Some
things you doin't like are surely a matter of taste.

> And there are some more expamples. I agree that many real improvements 
> too of course!!. But why to drop out good and working functions? This is 
> what I do not understand. I hope that the designers could realize that 
> there's something that has gone very wrong in the process of designing 
> specs for 2.0.

I don't think that there is something wrong "in the process of designing
specs". IMHO there are some errors made in some of the specs. Consider
the *huge* amount we made for OOo2.0 - it's not surprising that some of
them are not, well, satisfying. We learned from that for the future: we
will create less specifications and let more people review them.

Please remember: only people that don't do anything don't make errors.

Best regards,
Mathias

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