Dear LibreOffice Developers,
I am using LibreOffice for many years, and formerly I used FreeOffice.
Honestly spoken, I am using this software more likely than M$ Office as
I do so for other software, too, e.g. better an old version of
Embarcadero's (= Borland's) GodeGear than M$ Visual C++. In mz opinion,
it's better to bite any other bullit rather than M$ products, if
available ...
BUT:
The LibreOffice user community has to live with some (I guess it's a lof
of) BUGS which you don't consider being such because the program does
not terminate abnormally:
- When the user (note: the USER in general, not just me) wants to change
the size of an image embedded in the text, it is quite normal (and I
guess in most of all occurances) he wants to keep the aspect ratio of
that when scaling. However, each time doing so, one must tick the
related checkbox in the dialog box for the first time in the program
session. This is totally annoying, particularily when you forget that.
- When a frame is inserted in another frame, it is not possible to place
the inner frame at the bottom of the outer frame although this is
offerred. This problem is known to me in the last release of version 5
(which I am using at home) and continues to exist at least up to the
latest release of version 7 (which a am using in my job).
- Positioning of images or of frames in general is really poor.
- Dealing with formatting of parapraphs is unclear and will sometimes
lead to strange and unexplainable results due to thousands of formats
available which are combined, preceded and successed by each other.
Instead of providing solutions for that, you are constantly working on
USELESS gimmicks and doing other waste of time, such as
- large document preview icons distributed on the whole screen when no
document is loaded,
- new icons for the speedbuttons and menus coming with every new main
release,
- support for the so-called ribbon menu, the most inefficient and
NON-ergonomical user interface ever seen by now, which is a shuffled
aggregation of non-related or hidden menuitems with icons of different
sizes. Bullshit!
Never advise or recommend me to use the current release to try out
whether BUGS like those of above perhaps have been disappeared by
themselves ...
I hope, you start thinking about this.
--
Thomas Schubert
- Germany -
