On 19/11/12 10:32, Daniel Mania wrote: > Hei hei! > > Why do we "need to keep being compatible" with Microsoft Office at all? > 1) Users who switch from Microsoft Office do that for a reason and they > should expect some differences! > 2) Document compatibility is a great idea, but until Microsoft Office > import works well enough, there is no point in cluttering up LibreOffice > with "legacy options". Anything more complicated than "Hello world" gets > messed up after importing it from MSO into LibreOffice.
the whole point of the new borders that were added in LO 3.4 was to improve the Microsoft Office import/export fidelity. > How about cleaning up the LibreOffice interface, before introducing > additional elements? There are still smaller inconsistencies like the > table border button, which is only a pull down menu without a separate > pull down menu arrow and an "apply current setting" button next to each > other. Or the two different types of rectangle and circle shapes in Calc > and Writer ... Even though many of the other irregularities have been > cleaned up already. are you seriously trying to say that you think that the current border UI that allows setting the width independently of the line style with a simple text input widget, where many line widths do not actually make sense for quite a number of line styles (e.g. try setting line widths < 1pt for double border styles and see how they look) is "clean" or intuitive for the user and we shouldn't think about improving that ? _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-ux-advise mailing list Libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-ux-advise