Hi :) There always seems to be a shed-load more devs working on Writer than any other module. I think Calc and Draw are in around 2nd place although i don't track these things.
There is much better software out there than Impress/Powerpoint for doing the sorts of things they should be good at. It might be worth hunting for a specialist program. I'm not sure but the issues you mention probably have already been posted as bug-reports but if you have the time it would be great if you could make sure; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugReport If that doesn't help you find them then please do post your own. On a side-issue i think most people here recognise that you are a strong supporter of LO, TDF and the wider OpenSource community and appreciate that your 'critic' is merely meant to help us find&fix issues. Good luck and regards from Tom :) On 16 May 2014 15:16, CVAlkan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi: > > Someone asked me offline (or is that back channel?) to provide examples of > what I meant by my comments regarding Impress. I think the implication was > that these were unfair rants. So here are examples that come to mind: > > 1) I said Impress is a "Work in Progress": this wasn't a slur, merely an > observation. One example is that the export to pdf doesn't support anything > but the slides themselves. I don't even know whether the developers ever > intended to "complete" this capability for Notes, Handouts and such. I just > went to utilize a feature that I assumed would be there, and found that it > didn't exist (or at least I can't find any way to make such a choice). I > utilized a third-party "printer driver" which worked just fine, although it > would be nice to have all of the capabilities of LO's own PDF exporter. > > 2) I said that Impress has "interface inconsistencies": again, just an > observation. One example is that if one copies an object on one slide, and > then pastes it into a different slide, and then uses one of the arrow keys > to move the object's position (the pasted object is clearly selected - > handles showing, etc.), the screen display will jump to an earlier or later > slide rather than moving the object within the slide. If one holds the > arrow > down (when, for instance, the object needs to be moved a good distance), > you > might end up at the first or last slide of the presentation depending on > your reaction time to the unexpected screen chaos. This is, of course, > quite > simply explained by the fact that pasting an object doesn't seem to give > that object (and the slide display) focus, but rather leaves it on the > thumbnails on the left side. I don't believe that is the normally expected > behavior, and it certainly isn't how Writer, for instance, reacts (although > I understand that pages are not "independent" as they are in Impress). > Again, this normally isn't tough to deal with - you just have to remember > to > click on the display before attempting to move the pasted object. If you're > pasting a selection of multiple objects, however, you end up needing to > re-select them before moving - and this can be quite tricky if they've > landed on top of other objects. > > So, if my comments appeared snooty to anyone else who was too polite to > call > me on them publicly, I apologize if the tone seemed offensive. I believe, > however, that the remarks were factual - I certainly can't imagine anyone > making the argument that Impress is at the maturity level of Writer. And I > don't think that should come as a big surprise given the relative > importance > (and user interest) of the two. It just 'is what it is' as they say. > > Have a great day ... > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Deleting-a-Table-in-Impress-tp4108931p4109054.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
