On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 17:18 -0700, NoOp wrote: > On 05/18/2011 02:17 AM, plino wrote: > >> > >> > >> > In the Ubuntu version of LibreOffice, some of the taller dialogs have > >> > been rearranged so the "bottom half" is to the side, so they fit better > >> > into a widescreen display such as found on many netbooks and laptops. > >> > (PDF Options is an example.) AFAIK, the standard version of LibO > >> > (downloaded from the website) does not use this side-by-side layout. > >> > >> Great to know - thanks for sharing ! > >> (I usually work with all kind of betas and test stuff, hardly with > >> default installed versions.) > >> > >> Would be good to have that in the vanilla LibreOffice too, IMO > > Agree. > > >> > >> > > That is really interesting. It shows that Ubuntu has people concerned and > > working on usability. > > Actually I think the Ubuntu mods are more due to the Unity interface > than anything. I suspect that GNOME 3 will also have the same issues.
For the PDF Export dialog at least, it was that way (long horizontally, not vertically) in OOo3.2 on Ubuntu 10.10 and possibly earlier. Of course that could have been planning ahead for the new interface. BTW, I'm using the classic interface in Ubuntu 11-04, not the new interface. --Jean > > > > > Since that is a modification of the open source code (and since Canonical IS > > a LO Supporter) shouldn't these modifications be contributed back to the > > source repository (or whatever the name is) in the spirit of Open Source > > Software (maybe it is and it's not incorporated?) > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
