On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:01:22 -0700 (PDT), Ann Barcomb <[email protected]> wrote:
> OO copies this same hateful behaviour, as I noticed when I tried to enter > data such as 3.2.1 - does that even look like a date? And why doesn't it > revert back to what I typed when I switch the cell to text? OO is IMHO even worse, in that they say they follow the locale pretty strict, but they only follow $LANG and ignore $LC_* Set $LANG to en_US.utf8 and LC_PAPER to A4, LC_TIME to something that shows your dates as "DD-MM-YYYY" and time to "HH:MM:SS", it will still convert 1-2-2009 to Jan 2, 2009. HATEFUL!!!!! > I hate OO. The only thing I do with it more frequently than watch it crash > is kill -9 it. My qualms with MS are not just the closed nature of the > software, it's also the horrible interfaces. Why did you have to copy that, > OO, why? Why couldn't you decouple the functionality (especially the > importing of Word and Excel files) and make a sane interface as well for > people who aren't switching from Windows, and are only using your horrible > software because they have to work with someone else who is using Word/ > Excel? OO improves, but up until today my more complicated graphs never came out as expected in OO > Also, why do you have to crash every 2nd time I try to export to PDF? > What makes this particular operation so challenging? > > If I've been using a particular amount of blank space after paragraphs > and a certain amount before paragraphs, and I've set my spacing to 1.5 > lines, why do you think that I want to revert to the default setting > simply because I've inserted a heading? > > Why have you made it so complicated to change one page--just one page, > not all of them--to landscape format that I had to write myself a > set of instructions to refer to? > > Furthermore, why can't the various parts of your suite work well with > each other? When I want to copy a spreadsheet to a text document, I > might want the option of having it transformed into a table. I don't > actually want it converted into an image which is then squeezed on the > page. If I export it as PDF it looks okay, but then I can't import > it into the text document without first converting it into a fuzzy > graphic. That's because OO can export PDF but can't import it. > > I hate that I can't review diffs from my repository in a decent way, > because the data isn't stored in a human-readable format. > > If everyone I have to work with would go away, I could use LaTeX and > be happy. > > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Mads Ruben Rennemo wrote: > > > MICROSOFT EXCEL. > > > > You edit my data. > > Did you consider that maybe, MAYBE, "8-16" wasn't a date and that you > > shouldn't convert it to August 16th? Or perhaps, not edit the DATA so > > that I could choose to reformat the cell to "text" and get back to > > 8-16 instead of 42853? Where the HELL did 42853 come from anyways? > > Also, when I save you as a CSV, I expect a line break inside a cell to > > be removed or converted. I don't expect to see two 8-column lines in > > my 16-column CSV file. > > > > HATE. > > > > > > -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, SuSE 10.1, 10.3, and 11.0, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
