William Case wrote: > But there obviously is some frustration; something non-intuitive to some > new users.
If it was easy to define what is the non-intuitive part of OOo's envelope functionality and how to solve that I would be glad to do it. But my experience with envelopes is that basically using this function is not hard to understand, but the problems start when you have to print it. If you are lucky and your printer does what OOo thinks it should do envelopes are an easy task. > I could suggest some changes that would clarify but they would just be > one more unsupported opinion. I would suggest, for those who have taken > on the responsibility for the Envelope printing wizard/dialogue that > they survey the existing complaints and perhaps survey those people who > have had problems and find out exactly where the problems lay -- > technical or comprehension. What frustrates me is that each time I helped someone with envelopes and asked him how we could change the function to make it easier, nobody was able to give me a hint. So I don't have high hopes that this will be different in case of those people who complained in issues, mails and forum postings over the years. Nevertheless I started to collect the relevant issues some time ago but was disrupted by some more urgent tasks. As I also don't participate in Web forums I would be very pleased if someone else could create a list of complaints and problems (what was found irritating, how often, how many votes and duplicates, which improvement suggestions etc.) so that we could try to consolidate that into a single issue. I tend to believe that the problem isn't the UI but the printing. > I might add that I would think OOo's objective should not be to copy > Microsoft Word but to be better than any other Office Suite that now > exists. That is, if there is a problem, lets fix it; not compare it. This would be my approach also though experience tells us that in case you don't have a superior idea it's better not to be too different from Word. Repelling former Word users without attracting others by superior (not only different) design is a bad strategy. Or in a single sentence: try to be better if you can, but don't try to be different "just because". Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
