At 07:11 AM 28/6/2005, you wrote:
Chris Quirke (new address) wrote:
:: Interested in OOO as free replacement for MS Office for my clients.
It's great to be able to fiddle with unit types (inches vs. cm vs. miles) within each application. But it sucks that one HAS To do this, and that OOO is too dumb to read what the OS-wide default units are.
Just doing a quick, I think you are doing more work than it is worth. Each component has the setting in the same place. *Tools > Options > Text Document > General* *Tools > Options > Spreadsheet > General* *Tools > Options > Presentation > General* *Tools > Options > Draw > General*
Let's have a look... starting OOO word processor, Tools, Options... - text document, General x 1 - text document, View x 2 - HTML document, View x 3 - spreadsheet, General x 1 - spreadsheet, View x 0 - presentation, General x 1 - presentation, View x 0 - drawing, General x 1 - drawing, View x 0 - formula, OK - chart, OK - data, OK
This can be advantageous. Very rarely do I ever want Writer to be in anything but inches, but I may be doing some drawing that requires metric units, now I can have different things in different apps.
Yes, I figured that from the large units that drawing and presentations offer, e.g. building scale CAD, etc. Still, it would make sense to seed the initial units as per OS settings, then override on a per-app basis, or better still, within templates (e.g. the "budget presentation" template may be in cm, the "sales" template in pixels, and the "site survey" in km)
I didn't know Windows had settings in it. Perhaps it would be neat if OOo could read those. Perhaps you could file an issue and request an enhancement.
I'm sure there's an API to ask. They're applied in two ways; seeded from a locale (in my case, "USA") but overridden in the details (in my case, dd-mm-yyyy and d mmmm yyyy instead of mm-dd-yyyy etc.) MS Office isn't that elegant on this either, or wasn't - there, too, do the "same things" look different (depending on the app) and for a while, Word was pulling paper size from the current printer while the other apps in the suite were not, and had to be set by hand.
The best way to have problems such as this evaluated is to file an issue. Issued are used to both report defects in the software and to propose that new features be added. For instructions on how to file an issue please see: <http://openoffice.peschtra.com/tips/ooott_web_iz_file_issue.html>
Thanks - I've just been there and did the survey, but I really don't want to grind through a lot of stuff just to send in one issue. I'm stretched over too many elists, web forums and newsgroups as it is, alas! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
