On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Maxwell Hoffmann <mhoffman at adobe.com> wrote: > FrameMaker is a very powerful, feature-rich product that addresses the needs > of very diverse users in many different vertical markets. As a result, it is > impossible to please all of us, regarding UI, and other issues.
It's impossible to displease anyone by fixing bugs, or by improving your QA. There are a lot of serious UI bugs that were introduced in FM9 that from what I've heard still haven't been fixed in FM11. You may remember you asked me to send you a list of those bugs last year. Here's another copy. 1. Document window size and position are not saved. 2. Docked panels often appear behind the document window, and I have to resize, minimize, or close the document window to use them. Since window size and position are not saved, I have to resize them dozens of times a day. 3. Sometimes I have the opposite problem: the side of a window is completely blocked by the character or paragraph tag catalog, so I have to minimize, close, or move the panel before I can resize the window. 4. When I open a panel, sometimes it appears behind another panel that's already open, and I have to move one or the other before I can use it. 5. The first time I press Ctrl-f, I can just type the search string, but after that the focus within the Find/Change seems to be random, so I can't. 6. After a book has been open for a while, it no longer responds to menu commands. I can double-click files to open them or use the right-click menu, but if I try to select a menu command such as Edit > Update Book or File > Save As PDF the book window minimizes and is no longer active. The only workaround I've found is to close and reopen the book window, which I end up doing dozens of times a day. 7. A separate FrameMaker button appears on the taskbar for each file that's open. 8. The FrameMaker console window appears behind the application window. Bringing it to the front is sometimes difficult. 9. When I first start FrameMaker, Ctrl-F6 switches between open windows. After a while, it stops working. (I can use alt-key menu navigation.) 10. Alt-key menu letters are not displayed for all menu commands (e.g. Documents on the Window menu). 11. If I Alt-Tab to FrameMaker from another application, pressing Alt-Tab again takes me to another FrameMaker document window (if more than one document is open) instead of back to the other application. I eventually gave up on rearranging FM10's windows and pods, which means I don't encounter most of those any more, but I'm probably 10-15% slower as a result.
