On 11/18/2008 08:50 AM, jonathon wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:21, James Knott wrote: > >> What's to disable? If you don't want that function, use a >> different icon. > > Some people, like me, keep OOo open, but without any documents open. > For those people, the switchboard is a nuisance, because it requires > that one open, then close a document, to get rid of the switchboard. > > For example, this morning, the first thing I used OOo, was to create > a quick spreadsheet. Then it was for some historical data to be > analyzed. Then I opened up my business plan, to see where I should be > today. Then I edit some user documentation I'm writing. > > Had the first email I read this morning been different, the sequence > of documents I opened would have been different.
Sorry, but I have no clue what you are describing above. > > NoOp wrote: > >> This is what people kept complaining about -- no desktop icon etc., >> and now that they have it they can't figure out how to create links >> to swriter, scalc, etc? Amazing... > > The power users do _not_ have a way to turn off what they perceive > (correctly) as junk --- stuff that not only does not contribute to > their productivity, but actually damages it. > >> still don't understand the issue; the same menu items as 2.x are >> still available (File/Edit/View/Tools/Window/Help) > > One has to go three three more steps with OOo 3.0, than with 2.0, to > get to the same place. For non-power users, the new setup might be > helpful. For power users, it hurts their productivity. Nor the above. You don't have to do anything different than 2.x - nothing. If you choose not to click an application/icon on the switchboard you can use the toolbar or the dropdown menues. I'll attach a sreenshot & hope that it goes through just to make sure we are talking about the same thing.
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