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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 7 09:06:01 -0700 2006 ------- I completely agree with the comments above and would like to give some specific feedback about the current implementation in the hope that any re-design will include improvements in these areas: 1) The user is invited to lose work. 2) The edit feature is very confusing. 3) It is possible to override standard entries unintentionally. Concerning item 1: Select some text. (That you have to know ahead of time to do this is another problem.) Activate the AutoText dialog, type in a name and shortcut. Now what to do? There is no obvious way to "save" anything. If the user clicks "Close" (an obvious button and not normally a destructive action), then the entire effort is silently canceled and lost. Worse, if the user happened to try and define something like "DT" that's already defined, the lost definition will now appear to work, but will give an entirely different and unexpected result (see http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=43164). Concerning item 2: Clicking on AutoText > Edit cause the dialog to disappear and the user is thrown into a completely new document window with no explanation or guidance. This is a very unusual pattern of interaction and very disorienting. I realize that, by nature, editing an autotext entry may require the complete Writer application, but at least some explanation is required. Some kind of window embedded in the dialog would be nice, with an option to expand it to the full window. At the very least, you could insert some boilerplate instructions in the new document along with the autotext, then ignore that when the edited entry is stored. Concerning item 3: An organization may have set up standard autotext entries that are needed. If a user defines an autotext that happens to use the same shortcut, the standard entry will no longer work. There should at least be some indication that a shortcut is in use or not, so that an override is a conscious, intentional decision. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
