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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 1 19:18:41 +0000 2007 ------- I would like to convey to you some ideas and feelings as an OOo non-IT specialized user, and after trying the Developer Snapshot Build SRC680_m223 and reading the first version of the hyperlinks spec document (http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/hyperlinks/Behavior_of_Hyperlinks_in_OOo_Documents.odt) 1. Ease of use and security when editing documents. 1.1. When I edit a document, I am concentrated in the subject I am writing on, and I do not want to be disturbed by the variegated behaviour of the program: if I want to go somewhere within OOo or out of it, I want to do that with the least effort and without having to think what kind of link I am facing to in order to determine how I have to adapt myself to the program (instead of the other way) through CTRLs, clicks and +s; otherwise, I would be distracted from my main task as a user. It should not matter the kind of link I click; I only want to be assured that if I click a link, I will go where the link tells me, no matter if it is a footnote, a reference, a TOC, a weblink, and so on. I think, in other words, that the best would be: what you click is what you get (WYCWYG; or what you get is what you click, WYGWYC; doesn't matter). 1.2. The browsers have just contributed with this (to use pjanik's expression) paradigm. I do not see why we should deprive ourselves of this advantage. Would it not be OK if people thought that OOo is as easy to use as a browser? Browsing and just clicking is precisely what I need to be able to concentrate on my task as user (behalve of course in case I am a typist), without being disturbed as I mentioned above. In other words, to be concentrated on editing the content of my document, I need to be able to browse. 2. The behaviour of hyperlinks in the different modules of MS Office. MS Office is, in this case, not a good reference at all. It is, on the contrary, simply a good example of what it is to be avoided. It looks like MS Office has not been able to completely strip itself of the legacy of the old Word Perfect: CTRL+some key, ALT+some key, CTRL+click, and so on, now even aggravated with the fact that the result changes according to the MS module! I think that these pairs (CTRL+.., etc.) are OK only as alternative shortcuts. 3. Informative tag above the hyperlinks When I was introduced a hyperlink in my document, the tag appeared only after I had clicked four or five times on the hyperlink. I was disconcerted, until I realised I was in the presence of a hyperlink; so concentrated I was on the editing of my document, that I had not thought I had to use CTRL+click instead of simply and automatically pressing my forefinger. The tag came as in slow motion when I was already beginning to simply use the Windows explorer to go directly to the referred file. But if the tag had appeared quickly, I think I would have found it a hindrance. I would briefly conclude: give me WYGWYC (or WYCWYG), no WYGWYCTR-click. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
