John Boyle wrote:
To all users: I am curious as to why OpenOffice needs a new Gui? Can
someone please explain that to me, as I find it is the easiest program
to work with from opening to closing it when finished! Why on earth
change the part of the program that makes it work the best? That is
Lars Nooden wrote:
John Boyle wrote:
To all users: I am curious as to why OpenOffice needs a new Gui? Can
someone please explain that to me, as I find it is the easiest program
to work with from opening to closing it when finished! Why on earth
change the part of the program that makes it work
Drew Jensen wrote:
Well - OpenOffice.org as you may know has been running a user survey for
the last couple of yours, at least.
During that time not hundreds and not thousands but tens of thousands of
users have responded.
In that data there are significant numbers of people that do
Lars Nooden wrote:
Drew Jensen wrote:
Well - OpenOffice.org as you may know has been running a user survey for
the last couple of yours, at least.
During that time not hundreds and not thousands but tens of thousands of
users have responded.
In that data there are significant numbers of
Drew Jensen wrote:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:IsoMetrics_Results
Thanks. That one pages does show that change is needed. Even without
study people can say that, even mono/msfters trying to hobble or cripple
the project.
However, the results do not give any
Drew Jensen wrote:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:IsoMetrics_Results
The most dissatisfaction is with Impress. Some of that may be inherent
to presentation graphics, which are soundly disliked and an infamous
time sink. Making a presentation used to take a few hours, now
2009/9/3 Drew Jensen usersl...@paintedfrogceramics.com
Lars Nooden wrote:
John Boyle wrote:
To all users: I am curious as to why OpenOffice needs a new Gui? Can
someone please explain that to me, as I find it is the easiest program
to work with from opening to closing it when finished!
Lars Nooden wrote:
Drew Jensen wrote:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:IsoMetrics_Results
The most dissatisfaction is with Impress. Some of that may be inherent
to presentation graphics, which are soundly disliked and an infamous
time sink. Making a presentation used to
Microsoft got it right (yes, really)
Sorry - I just need a minute to get up off the floor...
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Harold Fuchs wrote:
I think there are several problems here:
1. The prototype was poorly done and, apparently, premature. This is a
shame and, unfortunately has coloured peoples' judgment - including mine. I
don't have any feelings about ribbons. To be honest I'm not even sure what
the term
armatures
LOL - ok spell checkers can't always help one, can they.
They aren't amateurs either..
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John Boyle wrote:
IN GOD WE TRUST!
All others pay cash. ;-)
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Drew Jensen wrote:
armatures
LOL - ok spell checkers can't always help one, can they.
They aren't amateurs either..
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On 2009/09/03 4:35 AM Lars Nooden wrote:
If we have to keep Impress, then it would be useful to turn to the best
quality on the market for examples:
http://www.apple.com/iwork/keynote/
I play aroungd with Impress occasionally, but when I have real work to
do I use Keynote. Now if
Jonathan Kaye wrote:
NoOp wrote:
On 08/06/2009 07:21 AM, M Henri Day wrote:
I think most of us can agree that the OOo GUI is getting a bit long in
the tooth, but I'm not sure that everybody wants a needed update to tread
the primorose path taken by Microsoft Office. List members
NoOp wrote:
On 08/06/2009 07:21 AM, M Henri Day wrote:
I think most of us can agree that the OOo GUI is getting a bit long in
the tooth, but I'm not sure that everybody wants a needed update to tread
the primorose path taken by Microsoft Office. List members can judge for
themselvs on the
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:28, M Henri Day wrote:
We seem to be agreed as regards the «ribbon» - I did like that bit about
That ribbon fails Section 508. That automatically renders OOo
unsuitable for the corporate environment.
(And yes, blind people do use Impress. They also use Draw.)
but
jonathon wrote:
That ribbon fails Section 508. That automatically renders OOo
unsuitable for the corporate environment.
guess it is a good thing that it is only a prototype and not an actual
first cut at a UI then..
Unless of course you mean that ALL ribbons ( or perhaps MS ribbons
2009/8/8 jonathon jonathon.bl...@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:28, M Henri Day wrote:
We seem to be agreed as regards the «ribbon» - I did like that bit about
That ribbon fails Section 508. That automatically renders OOo
unsuitable for the corporate environment.
(And yes, blind
Mark C. Miller mr.mcmil...@gmail.com wrote in message
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On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:02:04 -0400, Twayne wrote:
M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com wrote in message
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I think most of us can agree that the OOo
On 07/08/09 01:01, Harold Fuchs wrote:
snip /
Errm. What prototype? Do you mean I can download and run a version of
OOo with this new GUI and *not* have it interfere with my existing 3.1.0
(m11) version? I find a link New: OOo-DEV 3.1.1 Developer Snapshot
(build OOO310_m17) available but, as
2009/8/7 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com
On 07/08/09 01:01, Harold Fuchs wrote:
snip /
Errm. What prototype? Do you mean I can download and run a version of
OOo with this new GUI and *not* have it interfere with my existing 3.1.0
(m11) version? I find a link New: OOo-DEV 3.1.1
2009/8/7 Harold Fuchs hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com:
2009/8/7 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com
On 07/08/09 01:01, Harold Fuchs wrote:
snip /
Errm. What prototype? Do you mean I can download and run a version of
OOo with this new GUI and *not* have it interfere with my existing 3.1.0
2009/8/7 Guy Voets nimant...@gmail.com
2009/8/7 Harold Fuchs hwfa.openoff...@googlemail.com:
2009/8/7 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com
snip
PS - I didn't like it much to be honest. The layout uses a relatively
*huge* amount of screen real estate. With the rise of netbooks and
M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com wrote in message
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I think most of us can agree that the OOo GUI is getting a bit long
in the tooth, but I'm not sure that everybody wants a needed update
to tread the primorose path taken by Microsoft
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:02:04 -0400, Twayne wrote:
M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com wrote in message
news:2fbc9b20908060721g5260f8cag778e298794987...@mail.gmail.com
I think most of us can agree that the OOo GUI is getting a bit long in
the tooth, but I'm not sure that everybody wants a needed
On 08/06/2009 07:21 AM, M Henri Day wrote:
I think most of us can agree that the OOo GUI is getting a bit long in the
tooth, but I'm not sure that everybody wants a needed update to tread the
primorose path taken by Microsoft Office. List members can judge for
themselvs on the following site
2009/8/6 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net
On 08/06/2009 07:21 AM, M Henri Day wrote:
I think most of us can agree that the OOo GUI is getting a bit long in
the
tooth, but I'm not sure that everybody wants a needed update to tread the
primorose path taken by Microsoft Office. List members can
M Henri Day wrote:
At the risk of sounding like I'm getting long in the tooth myself (I am), I
agree with NoOp and, it would seem, a lot of other users that the ribbon
road is not the path that OOo should take (I can use MS Office 2007 and in
fact find it an improvement over 2003, so my opinion
whateva
Sand. C
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:10:02 -0400
From: usersl...@paintedfrogceramics.com
To: users@openoffice.org
Subject: Re: [users] Re: New GUI for OOo ?
M Henri Day wrote:
At the risk of sounding like I'm getting long in the tooth myself (I am), I
agree with NoOp
On 06/08/09 16:10, Drew Jensen wrote:
M Henri Day wrote:
At the risk of sounding like I'm getting long in the tooth myself (I
am), I
agree with NoOp and, it would seem, a lot of other users that the ribbon
road is not the path that OOo should take (I can use MS Office 2007
and in
fact find it
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Take the time to enter your comments there - that will go directly to
the individuals on the UX team working on this.
Are you saying that if I enter comments on the blog page (which I
have done) that those *won't* go directly to the individuals on the
UX team working on
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