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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 9 12:46:11 +0000 2007 ------- fmc – I am personally not worried about what it looks like in justified alignment, since if I’m that concerned about layout I generally use InDesign which has much more comprehensive text formatting capabilities. However, I was obviously talking in a specific context – that of text entry, which I doubt many perform in justified mode since the constant text movement is very disconcerting. Ragged right is the norm, and that is how the default template starts you off. When I do choose justification I expect to see spaces disappear at the end of a line – this is behaviour I have specifically requested after all, and if I don’t like it I can go back to ragged right and add the justification when I’ve finished. What I do not expect is for this behaviour to spill over into the normal case, where it is plainly inappropriate. ‘Do you really think we are ignoring this because we don't want to fix this?’ It’s been a very long time, it would be one logical conclusion. ‘Did it ever came to your mind that there might be more important bugs to fix / features to implement?’ That thought had occurred to me, of course, but personally I’d much prefer that the core worked well than that yet more new features I’ll never use were added. ‘It's all a question of resources and priorities.’ Hard to disagree with that. But I fear that it’s a fundamental problem of open source software that usability gets low priority. This bug for instance has been raised innumerable times. At a guess I would say every single user of Writer has been irritated by it at some time. But it will never get priority because there’s a workround (just back up a few spaces to find out what you’ve written) and because most of the ‘5% of the functionality’ users like me who would like to see it fixed will never find their way to the bugfix voting system. I’ve obviously upset you with my emotive remark. Please forgive me – one howl of protest every couple of years against something that irritates me every single day is surely not too excessive? I thought I'd been very restrained :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
