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.
There is a method for this - you simply right-click on the zoom info in the status bar and get a list of the zooms from which to choose. > 2. The document page should be CENTERED on the screen instead of on the > left edge, which is visually "unbalanced". This is not an issue for most people who are use to Left-to-Right text, but could be a good option for Right-to-Left text users. I suggest you put in a Request for Enhancement (RFE) and see how the votes go. > 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. Ummm... This is how it is done? There is a list of categories which contain the icons and you "drag" them over to the menubar set on the right. How are you trying to do this? > 4. Need shortcut: CTRL+SHIFT+V = paste without formatting. This can be done in the new version for 2.0. > 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,...) They do. Which ones are you missing? > 6. Double click should select a sentence; tripple click should select a > paragraph. (it might already do this) I think it is close. I believe double click will select the word and a triple click the paragraph. > 7. Context menus need to be much more powerful (more items) and CONTEXTUAL. Examples? > 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). Have you define these in your default template? > 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), ...) Most of these you have mentioned previously right? The others you mentioned can all be done using styles. > 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. Well actually, a lot of them do. MS Windows does a lot of preloading in its startup to allow MS Office to start more quickly when used. > 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 :-) And seems to cover most of the areas that were a problem for you. Are there still areas that are an issue? Are you looking at making OOo and exact replica of WordPerfect? Regards Jonathon -- OOo Tips (RSS) - http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/tips.rss OOo Knowledgebase - http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/ Cybersite Consulting - http://www.cybersite.com.au/ Training4Linux - http://www.training4linux.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
