Peter Kupfer wrote:
Joerg Barfurth wrote:
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Maybe better help, maybe changing how the option was labeled, maybe making it so the default option was to open at top. Now editors and people working on big projects have been left out in the cold.
Yes. The simplest idea to solve the original problem would have been to change the default to open at top. This way people writing large documents - who can be expected to be more proficient with their text processor - can change it for their needs and newbies aren't surprised.
But unfortunately someone initially had the idea to make this a 'smart' feature so someone else's document opens at the top, but yours reopens at your last edit position. Attempting to really specify this behavior revealed that this kind of automatism is a bad idea. But the specification was started and so this took on a life of its own to specify and then implement something :-(
Thanks for the info. I am glad I am not the only person who thinks there was a simpler solution.
"Some"? All functionality was lost. Now it only opens at the top.
It still opens, doesn't it? So not all functionality is lost.
Fair enough. :)
Will it happen in a future 2.0.x or are are talking 3.0?
Apparently that is not decided yet. Maybe you need to lobby some more or get people to vote for the issue to convince the responsible people that this really should be fixed in 2.0.1.
Lord knows I am trying. :)
Joel, my wrath is not really directed at you. You are just the first person brave enough to talk to use about these things, and I would like to know the story behind this and understand why these changes are made.
My name is not Joel, but I think it is better if people understand how and why these things happen. The developers are overloaded and that may cause occasional mistakes.
Very, very sorry about the name thing. I was typing too fast and being careless. :(
Ciao, Joerg
(Now off to vacation)
Enjoy your vacation.
-- Peter Kupfer OOo user since 'OO4 http://peschtra.tripod.com/open_office/ooo_front.htm
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