Kat Buitron wrote:
I have never consistently used Open office. But please, for the love of
God, don't just make a word processor, email program and database
program. Please make something the people will use.
My current pet peeve:
Scheduling shared conference rooms in outlook is a pain.
If an email/calendar program let someone set up a list of available
conference rooms, that would get booked when a location was selected
(from a drop down menu) then my company's scheduling nightmare would be
over. Because if it worked correctly, when one rescheduled a meeting,
the conference room would also reschedule. As it is in outlook the only
way to do this (natively) is to set up the conference as a person, and
have someone log in and accept all the meeting requests/ rescheduling
requests.
Other Ideas:
Tasks should be more robust. One should be able to select a mail message
and drag it into a task and then the mail message should have the option
to be deleted from the inbox and moved into a navigation bar within the
task window. Meetings should also be linkable to tasks. Tasks should
have multiple sub tasks that automatically update the Main task's
completion level when they are checked off. This way, instead of
creating millions of folders in outlook to keep all our mail together,
and going back and digging through our calendar for meetings etc. We
could open up the task, click on what we needed. If it were a meeting,
it would have the minutes attached to it (rather than having to email
them out to everyone), with a list of all the people that actually
managed to attend, and a list of reasons why people could not attend.
Colors should also be along the whole background of the line, not just
some stupid little square, and the display text should be adjustable
also. People should have the option of adding icons to the summary lines
of emails, tasks, and calendar entries. This will allow more visual
organization that also does NOT rely on color (for those of us that are
colorblind).
What you are asking for is so specific that I suspect that the only way
you will ever get it is to hire a developer to write custom software to
do this. I suspect that the software would not have to be written from
"the-ground-up", but could be done using a database, even the one
contained in the OpenOffice.org suite of applications, that way it could
take advantage of other elements of OOo. Many developers have written
custom software taking advantage of OOo as a starting point because it
is open source and therefore much more practical for this purpose than
any proprietary software.
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