On 25/01/2005, at 15:26, John W. Kennedy wrote:
The /filename/ belongs in the title bar. The present kewl feature
accomplishes nothing but to drive the user slowly mad when working on
two documents with the same title.
So lets display both :-)
Example:
-
My Document Title (filename.odt)
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 20:11 +0200, Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
So lets display both :-)
Example:
-
My Document Title (filename.odt)
/me not sure how seriously should her suggestion be taken...
Well, there are only that many permutations, I think we are through
them by now.
Ralph Aichinger wrote:
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 20:11 +0200, Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
So lets display both :-)
Example:
-
My Document Title (filename.odt)
/me not sure how seriously should her suggestion be taken...
Well, there are only that many permutations, I think we are
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 15:09 -0600, Peter Kupfer wrote:
What is beginning to baffle me, is why we even have file titles. They
serve no purpose other than as a field, and we already have a field tool.
I have not researched this, but I've got my theory. I think you will
not like it though:
1.
Ralph Aichinger wrote:
On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 15:09 -0600, Peter Kupfer wrote:
What is beginning to baffle me, is why we even have file titles. They
serve no purpose other than as a field, and we already have a field tool.
I have not researched this, but I've got my theory. I think you will
not
Ralph Aichinger wrote:
1. We've got titles because MS Word has them
2. MS Word has titles because once upon a time, when competing
products to Windows had long filenames with spaces, and without
ugly extensions, Microsoft wanted to have a stop-gap solution
to help users who were confused
Rich wrote:
Mathias Bauer wrote:
Rich wrote:
...
I'm afraid it's not so easy (as Niklas Nebel already pointed out). For
whatever reason the author of the specification thinks that Calc should
restore the cell selection by default while the other applications
should always start at the first
Peter Kupfer wrote:
Mathias --
Hope off list is okay. :)
Please read my sig. :-)
Is there a tutorial or at least some sort of guide line to do this
somewhere in the OOo site or somewhere else. I would consider
elaborating on whatever exists or making one. I just don't know where to
I too am a little distressed at the possibility that the devs are going
to intentionally remove options.
I agree that too many options can be very confusing.
However, choice is just as important, and intentionally *limiting*
choice, when there is a way to do *both* (simplify the UI, but still
Joerg Barfurth wrote:
Rich wrote:
...
But if you want to transfer only a selected subset of your
customizations, then you need to know which files to copy (and some
files need not be copied at all, as they are transient caches or so).
In this case you need a taxonomy of the files or directories
Mathias Bauer wrote:
OOo setttings could be used in the same way. There are already a lot of
settings you can't change in the Options dialog, and I agree that it
might be preferable to remove even more from this dialog, but not from
the configuration files itself. You can use a decent XML editor
I'm long winded I know, but I do have some ideas/feedback and I'd like
to know what others think.
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:18:22 -0500, John W. Kennedy
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Peter Kupfer wrote:
I have about 30 files called test.sxw, but each is in a different folder
with a different title.
Chad Smith wrote:
...
This, IMO, was accepted without a whole lot of thought put into it. :(
I've seen you and maybe one other person who claim to miss this
feature. I don't think it is widely desired. I mean, how hard is it
to remember you were on page 15 or even page 147?
i don't think that
Matt Needles wrote:
Chad Smith wrote:
sniP
There wasn't a Word Count there was a buried feature called
Statistics in the Properties option of the file menu. This panel
had, among other things, a total word count. The new Word Count will
be able to do much more than just count *all* the words
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matt Needles wrote:
Ever look at Acrobat reader? File-Document Properties? It's in the
right place-- has to do with the document/file currently opened.
Matt Needles
-Chad Smith
PS. Acrobat Reader also has a Document menu, BTW, but the Document
Properties is on File-
Hi!
25--2005 08:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chad Smith) wrote to
discuss@openoffice.org:
It helps get the job done for editing big docs.
CS Again, I just remember where I was. If I can't tell by reading
CS something in the general area where I have edited and where I haven't -
CS putting a cursor at
Chad Smith wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Chad Smith wrote:
Two things here - I understand OOo is a unique program and isn't
striving to be like everybody else. I also understand that any hint
of OOo being a MS Office clone is a capital offense. However when
every program on earth does
Chad Smith wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kami wrote:
I think titlebar must show the doc's title (is available) or filename
(if not).
And I think the current behavior is assinine.
The /filename/ belongs in the title bar. The present kewl feature
accomplishes nothing but to drive the user
On 24/01/2005, at 05:25, Jonathon Blake wrote:
Depends upon what you use OOo for.
If you write in Hebrew, or Arabic, it looks like the best version to
use will be OOo 1.1.2, for the foreseeable future.
I have pulled together the user community here (Israel), and we got
some of the major
Monday, January 24, 2005 Chad Smith wrote:
Two things here - I understand OOo is a unique program and isn't
striving to be like everybody else. I also understand that any hint of
OOo being a MS Office clone is a capital offense. However when every
program on earth does something the same
On 24/01/2005, at 15:07, Rich wrote:
umm. that's the current behaviour :)
and the problem is word, inserting meaningless titles automatically
(and people never really checked what is in the title), so that titles
usually where 2 or the title of previous secret agreement ;) )
so, this _should_
Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
On 24/01/2005, at 08:06, Daniel Carrera wrote:
If
everyone expects to see File Exit, it would be *bad* to remove the
Exit entry from the File menu and put it under a new Program menu,
even
if logically, a Program menu would make more sense.
You are talking
On 24/01/2005, at 16:09, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Amazing... So Apple programs have a Program menu with an Exit
entry?
That's fantastic.
The Program menu also holds the preferences and the about. Much
more logical place if you ask me... (on Windows I am never shore if an
app will have it's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shoshannah Forbes wrote:
On 24/01/2005, at 08:06, Daniel Carrera wrote:
If
everyone expects to see File Exit, it would be *bad* to remove the
Exit entry from the File menu and put it under a new Program menu,
even
if logically, a Program menu would make more
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Chad Smith wrote:
In most programs (and I don't just mean MS Office, I mean virtually any
application with a File menu) the word Properties has nothing to do
with count words. It's where you set up options for the overall
program.
I would expect that *that* Properties
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