2012/5/3 Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]>: > On 03/05/2012 Rob Weir wrote: >> >> One thing we don't have any more is that registration dialog from >> OpenOffice.org. Does anyone recall what that used to do? > > > If I recall correctly, in different periods it was used for a user survey > (and this would be a meaningful suggestion for the future maybe), for > registering accounts at Sun and for registering accounts at Oracle. > > You can get an idea of the survey at > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:Phase_1:OOoUser_Survey > > Regards, > Andrea.
It was also used to register the user "with him/herself": The registration process helped the user to fill the fields under Tools → Options → OpenOffice.org → User data. Now, for most new users that info will remain empty. While not a problem by itself, this means for example that documents will always open on the first page and not on the last edited point, because the user data do not match the document author. Regards Ricardo
