James & Michael It seems that you have both beaten me to it in filing issues on this. I had intended to file an issue, but being in the UK, it had got to midnight and I needed a good night's sleep for a heavy day of house moving today.
I have seen both your issues and feel I must go with James (46397) for a number of reasons. The main one is that Matt Needles words are not quite right for the context. If you did 'do Windows' and had seen the dialog, you would have known that, Michael. For instance, there is nowhere for the user to 'choose NO'. Many years of designing dialogs like this have taught me that you must be precise in such matters. I can email you a document with a picture of the dialog in it, if you want me to. Also I feel the case needs to be put more strongly for this change in both issues, so I will be adding my comments to James' issue. I don't think that my words are precious in any way, and I am always ready to consider a change. So, Michael, what is it that you think is wrong with my words, and how would you change them? Finally, can I ask Daniel Carrera if he can support the 46397 issue in the same way he was going to support mine? I.e. get it confirmed. Thanks all Tony Pursell On 31 Mar 2005 at 8:21, James Walker wrote: > Michael A Chase wrote: > > >On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:01:26 -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > > > > > > >>I will vote for it too. I will also 'cofirm' the issue, so that it > >>goes to the developers directly. And I'll track it. But having me > >>tracking it doesn't really mean much. It just means you have a > >>friend trying to help. > >> > >> > > > >I prefer the wording proposed by Matt Needles in August 2004. I've > >filed an issue by borrowing the wording I put into 4414 last August. > >I don't do Windows, so I haven't seen the dialog myself. > > > >Issue 46347: Clearer Explaination Needed in the File Associations > >Dialog ===== The most frequent complaint seen on the users' lists is > >"Help! Your program has taken over my computer!" Either the > >description needs to be made more clear, or making OOo the default > >for MSO file types should be defered until runtime. > > > >Suggested wording from Matt Needles in August 2004: "OpenOffice.org > >can open MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Another program is > >currently assigned this task on your system. Do you want > >OpenOffice.org to be the default program to open these files when you > >open them from Windows Explorer? If you choose NO, you may still > >open these files from within OpenOffice.org." ===== > > > >I encourage anyone who is interested to add comments and vote early > >and often. > > > > > > > I did not see this when I checked for it again, so there is a second > issue # for this now, 46397. can someone (who knows how to, since I > don't fix it so that there is not 2 issues for the same thing.) sorry. > should have kept reading before filing. > > > James Walker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
