Where are you going to be on Software Freedom Day
(www.softwarefreedomday.org) Saturday 10 September 2005 ?
Are you part of a team ?
http://majen.net/sfdworldwide/
http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/Team_Pages
Even if you cannot attend an event in your area, perhaps
I too am not a fan of overly automated tools and have often stated that
OOo should learn from MSO's mistakes, not emulate them.
To back up Lyle's opinion, I worked a help desk for some years and every
time a new package came out that we supported, we were flooded for months
with questions
I support that too, automation of the bars suck.. really what part of I am a
user, not a brain damaged patient does this people don't get.
I found this overly annoying and not something I would expect from a FLOSS
mentality. I want my apps stupid and simple.
On 8/16/05, Lars D. Noodén [EMAIL
I disagree, I think automation can be a good thing. I am sure that I
am not alone in this belief, it's just many that feel the same as I do
would not comment on this thread, because they wouldn't be reading it.
I like the automations in OpenOffice.org - especially the
autocomplete. This is very
Chad Smith wrote:
I disagree, I think automation can be a good thing.
I agree with Chad here. There is a place for automation. And to some
degree it's a matter of preference. I've seen people who hate
autocomplete. Chad likes it, and so do I. Now, on another program I use
(Anjuta - an IDE)
I guess the keyword here is the option to turn it off. I use autocomplete
too, but the point here is that it gives me the option to use it or not.
However the pop-ups AFAIK I can't turn them offat ll nor can I have any
control to pop up on a way that is not intrussive.
On 8/16/05, Daniel
Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:
As a way to open files sent to me in MS-Word format and also when
suggesting the program to people who want something as close to what
they're used to as possible, I think the newest version of OpenOffice is
on track, but for my own uses, I'm finding the pre-2.0
Hello,
I am working with your Open Office 2.0 Beta. I tried 1.9.122 and an older
version.
I have a Freehand design, that I exported as an eps file. I can insert this in
a document with Microsoft Word, but with Open Office I cannot do the same.
So bad! :(
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 00:22 +, Jonathon Blake wrote:
I hate autocomplete. I'm guessing that before I turned it off, I was
running a minimum of a hundred incorrect words, for every correct
word.
If you're going to use autocomplete successfully, you have to train it.
--
Bruce Byfield
Bruce wrote:
If you're going to use autocomplete successfully, you have to train it.
The only way to train it, is to turn it off.
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For a couple of examples where autocomplete wants to use the
Jonathon Blake wrote:
Bruce wrote:
If you're going to use autocomplete successfully, you have to train it.
The only way to train it, is to turn it off.
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For a couple of examples
Alejandro Jiménez wrote:
Hello,
I am working with your Open Office 2.0 Beta. I tried 1.9.122 and an older
version.
I have a Freehand design, that I exported as an eps file. I can insert this in a document with Microsoft Word, but with Open Office I cannot do the same.
So bad! :(
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