The patch sets just a different default value, they are still there. Everyone who needs them can still show them via View->Ruler. Just for clarification.
Samuel 2012/11/1 Jean-Francois Nifenecker <jean-francois.nifenec...@laposte.net> > Le 01/11/2012 11:32, Michael Meeks a écrit : > > Hi guys, >> >> Thoughts on this ? I guess there are issues around seeing / >> creating >> tabs etc. >> >> ATB, >> >> Michael. >> >> -------- Forwarded Message -------- >> Subject: [PATCH] Hide the rulers in Writer by default for a cleaner look >> I have submitted a patch for review: >> >> https://gerrit.libreoffice.**org/956<https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/956> >> ... >> Hide the rulers in Writer by default for a cleaner look >> >> This is consistent with Impress. Might need to be discussed with ux-advise >> >> > Certainly *not* > > Rulers -- that I don't use to set tab stops or something -- help having a > global view of the document. > > Hiding rulers, hiding the document margins, hiding the non-printable chars > are all children of the same kind: hide "things" to user, things that *are* > indeed useful for an intelligent use of the tools. > > Opposite to what software creators say to ignorants: computing is *not* > easy. Computing is *not* intuitive at all. Computing has to be learnt and > taught. In this regard, text automation *must* be learnt. I strongly beg > the powers-that-be in LibO to understand that hiding things will *not* help > users, it will make them more difficult to use the software. > > We, as a free-software, have a responsibility: make the people understand > that, whatever tool they elect, they have to understand it then to learn > its use. > > So I repeat my answer: the rulers must certainly *not* be hidden, neither > in Writer nor in Impress. > -- > Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux > ______________________________**_________________ > Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list > Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.**freedesktop.org<Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/**mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-**ux-advise<http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise> >
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