https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91192
--- Comment #6 from Nick Levinson <[email protected]> --- Yes, it is. Geeks can use a command line interface (CLI) and may not need a gooey (GUI). Nongeeks are people who want to get something done and expect the computer to just do it. They often don't know the difference between RAM and a hard drive and don't want to know. The process in comments 3/5 would be explained to a nongeek something like this: After you type the URL, you select it manually (we're talking about URLs that fail to be fully selected when done automatically), copy (ctrl-c) the selection, type ctrl-k, type ctrl-v, and press the Enter key. And most nongeeks are intimidated by unfamiliar control commands, so what you'd usually have to say is something like this: After you type the URL, you select it manually (ignoring how it was selected when done automatically), copy the selection, open the Insert menu, select the Hyperlink command ("what's that?" "it's what you click on to go to a website"), paste, and press the Enter key. And they'd have to remember that for every URL they type that didn't fully link, a failure they'd have to recognize each time, and you missed one when you were looking for it. It would be a lot friendlier to users if the automatic linking of a string followed the rules about what characters can be in a URL. That would normally be any except the space, the opening angle bracket, and the closing angle bracket. (Domains have more limited rules but URLs don't, and if a subdomain violates the domain label rules a name server might allow it anyway, so LibreOffice should allow it, too.) Then users can go about being productive without getting stuck on the constructs in a module. Thanks for the Status setting. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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