https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152553
--- Comment #12 from [email protected] --- Right, and the point of Options is that they should likely go somewhere else. The spell check is for spell check. Muddying it up with other things is not helpful, and is not what is normally done IMHO. When I want spell check, that's all I want to do. I believe that other users are like me in expecting to click on other menu items or use shortcut keys or an icon on a bar to do other things. For instance, if I want to check the grammar, I select something else at the outset. The options are settings which obviously should go somewhere else. It is unlikely that I would ever change them while checking the spelling. I would likely have the best choice of dictionary loaded at the outset and have no need to change it. Further, I would not engage grammar tools and other somewhat associated items either. What I have found is that the programmers of Writer have been reinventing the wheel and have no experience in other programs which went before. Learning from the more mature programs is important here, and we are able to learn why things are the way they are. I remember when the WordPerfect rep came to my store years ago and demonstrated the new version at that time. He mentioned that they used the services and input from secretaries at the nearby multinational corporation to help design how things should work. Asking how the pros needed things to work served us all very well, and created a legendary product. There was a reason that secretaries, lawyers and English professors used that product. We learned, for instance, that the best way to create a document was to type as fast as one could as the thoughts flowed. After that, the spell check was selected. Then some basic formatting was carried out. And finally, the grammar check was done with a focus upon the intended audience. These are separate steps, and fast typists do not want to waste keystrokes at all. They literally hate it, because it gets in the way of the thought processes. Anything, anything at all, that interrupts that flow is very bad, and the word processor must be as unobtrusive as possible. Writer just gets in the way too much. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
