Hi, Thanks for taking the time to send in your comments. I'm sure the User Experience (UX) will take these into consideration as we make plans for what will likely be Apache OpenOffice 4.0.
FYI - IBM has contributed code from Symphony with a fresh UI and plans are to integrate that into OpenOffice. Regards, Dave On Jun 6, 2012, at 6:53 AM, funny fanny wrote: > > Hello! > I'm from Denmark, so my English might not be so good. > > I'm 14 years old, and are going to work on a project for school. I think the > design in Open Office Impress, is REALLY confusing! You have to click twice > to drag something and move around. In the beginning, I didn't know how to put > a text box in my project. Now that I have struggling with a diagram for 1 > hour, it is still not as I wanted. I wanted to have it percentages, but > couldn't find it, and had to improvise. The small icons for the different > stuff, is small and it is not clear enough to show what it is. Example. I > have NO IDEA what this was, before I hold my mouse over it and read. > http://i49.tinypic.com/2nlzthw.png > I am not much of, to compare Open Office with Microsoft Office, but the icons > in MO is really big, and it have a text under. It is also more modern, and > probably is mostly used in the younger students. In OO, you have to click > around to make it as you wanted. Even really simple things, you have to click > around. I would like to see a icon, with a text box and a 'insert picture' > shown at the top or in the bottom, instead of it is hiding behind my project, > so I have to look for it. The normally and useful tools don't appear very > clear. It is hidden like hide and seek, and instead of using time on your > project, you are wasting time to find what you need ex. making a text box. > I am not only hear to complain about the layout in Open Office Impress, but I > will thank you, for a free writing program, that is good enough t make it > happen. But! There is still many things that could be better. Open Office is > quite boring, and I think in many opions it would be nice, if it kinda > 'explode' up in my face. When I open OO, is plain boring. All grey, small > icons etc. > I mean, we are in 2012, things are getting more modern and futuristic. > Sometimes it would be good with a little bit different. > > In the nearest future, I hope to see a more modern writing program, that is > easy to use. Is kinda in 'the dark side' right now. Try turning in to 'the > bright side'. > > Thank you for your time, and I hope you take me seriously and actually maybe > will spend time to reply? Or at least try to look at it, and think about what > I just wrote > > > xoxo > 14 year old student, from Denmark. >
