Peter- These are good and sincere objections. Perhaps we'd benefit if someone would assist you in submitting them in an RFE?
-Sam On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 15:19 +0200, Peter Reaper wrote: > Some things that still "bug" me about OpenOffice: > > 1. The page ZOOM toolbar button needs to be a dropdown selection, > instead of the more cumbersome separate dialog window. > > 2. The document page should be CENTERED on the screen instead of on the > left edge, which is visually "unbalanced". > > 3. It is too cumbersome to add toolbar buttons that are not in the > standard set. The user should be able to just select a category on the > left (which BTW should mirror the MENU items) and then on the right have > a list of ALL functions in that category which he can drag to the toolbar. > > 4. Need shortcut: CTRL+SHIFT+V = paste without formatting. > > 5. Context menus in tables should offer many (all) table-specific > operations. This could be fine-tuned to adjust to how the table is > selected (cell, row,...) > > 6. Double click should select a sentence; tripple click should select a > paragraph. (it might already do this) > > 7. Context menus need to be much more powerful (more items) and CONTEXTUAL. > > 8. Draw doesn't offer a sensible default line color/width and form fill > color; and worse, it doesn't remember what I had previously selected > (goes back to idiotic defaults). > > 9. Writer's UI needs to be MUCH more like WordPerfect's UI (context > menus, paste-without-formatting, tables handling, tabs handling, > indenting paragraph AFTER some text (F7), ...) > > 10. The installer should NOT install the pre-loader by default. That is > just invasive, rude, and shows that the programmer couldn't properly > optimize the program. What if EVERY program did that? Our PC's would > come to a crawl from the load. > > There's more, but you can see that all this hype about OOo being nearly > as good as Word or even WordPerfect is just that: hype and wishful thinking. > > OOo 2.0 beta is a HUGE improvement over OOo 1.1.x :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
