https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41316
Elmar <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|medium |high CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #4 from Elmar <[email protected]> 2012-05-21 23:54:21 PDT --- I agree with the other notes. Most of us users do not have the time to tinker with styles and in fact, most users find Styles incomprehensible (I wonder what percentage of MSOffice users actually use styles, in spite of their power to save time and improve document manageability). It is just too confusing to them - not to speak of setting up list styles, even I as a person who will take the time - a whole day sometimes - to set up a template for myself - find it is a trial and error / hit and miss task. I cannot figure out what the logic is behind it. There is some inheritance, clearly, but it seems to be ditched for whatever reason. Also, once one has set a style, it is hard to revert to the default without deleting the style and starting over. It would be better if there were a reset button that reset everything to the parent style, so that one can then modify with that as the consistent basis. (In fact, to be intuitive, the RESET should apply to the attributes that are in view on the TAB, not to the whole style.) When "structured development" was first put forward by Yourdon, De Marco and others, they emphasised the principles of -- low binding -- high cohesion This laid the groundwork for object orientation. Every object is atomic, and receives changes by way of data passed to it in a controlled fashion. The sloppiness of MS until fairly recently and the adoption of a "good enough" paradigm was not useful and influenced far too many developers. Fact is there is no free lunch. Quick and dirty IS always dirty and seldom quick. IBM's findings of the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of software is still true today: that there is an exponential increase in the cost of fixing a defect depending on when it is discovered and repaired. Both in time and cost. And Open Source is as costly to create and use even if it has no price. In fact, given the improvements in development tools, the difference between in-development cost and in-use cost is probably far more pronounced. One of the most important attributes of the Quality Criteria: Stability and Useability is internal Integrity, which includes Consistency and Reliability (that the software works every time as you would expect it to.) But that does not change the fact that we owe you developers a huge debt of gratitude for the work you do. Thank you. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
