Op 25-9-2011 8:05, Alexandro Colorado schreef:
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Tor Lillqvist<t...@iki.fi> wrote:
So, Tor, what is your point of view on UI changes?
I am all in favour of changing the UI, but I am fully aware that I am
not an expert in UI issues, and don't claim to know how it should be
changed. (Also, I am a programmer, not an office software user; I
actually use LibreOffice (or OOo) for real work quite seldom.) I don't
think generalizations and "well-known truths" are trustworthy.
Especially, one should be careful of falling into the trap of
claiming some UI is "intuitive". It is fairly natural that if one has
used Phillips head screws for a decade, Torx head screws feel
unintuitive. Or that if one has used GIMP for a decade, Photoshop
feels unintuitive.
I would rather go to improve the usability factors that are different from
changing the UI. Usability means doing things faster and with less clicks.
There are many users that have put long lasting bugs and usability issues.
For example Writer behaves different than Draw on some things that make no
sense. For example, image handling in writer are limited from basic Draw
functionality like rotate a bitmap image. Writer can link frames as a
ongoing text while draw can't do the same.
Programatically it would make more sense these services work together just
like Writer and Calc used the same service for their tables.
--tml
+ 1
Add fixing long standing bugs and implementing long standing feature
requests. There are a few that IMHO are rather important.
* I already mentioned the keep cursor position after a Replace all and a
better interface for manual breaks.
* There's a bug in the conversion filter to and from Word: the mechanism
of changing page styles in the page style definition (like in First
page, where a different style is set for the next page) and page style
changes linked to a paragraph style, like Heading 1. At present the only
page style change that properly converts is the manual page break. All
other page style breaks get lost in conversion. I can attach a Writer
and Word file with that effect if desired. It's a major pain for people
who have to send files in doc format to business relations.
Peter aka floris v
