Having grown very used to Excel defaults I find Calc very annoying to
use. Now that contributing to LibreOffice looks sane I'm curious how
receptive people would be to some patches for the following Calc
conventions...
SEMI-COLON INSTEAD OF COMMA AS FUNCTION ARGUMENT SEPARATOR
Current Calc behavi
At 8:21pm -0500 Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Patrick Bakker wrote:
SEMI-COLON INSTEAD OF COMMA AS FUNCTION ARGUMENT SEPARATOR
Current Calc behaviour:
=subtotal(9;a1:a5)
Desired behaviour:
=subtotal(9,a1:a5)
I believe OpenOffice has supported both semicolon and comma since at
least 3.0. Take a look at
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote:
> At 8:21pm -0500 Thu, 11 Nov 2010, Patrick Bakker wrote:
>>
>> SEMI-COLON INSTEAD OF COMMA AS FUNCTION ARGUMENT SEPARATOR
>>
>> Current Calc behaviour:
>> =subtotal(9;a1:a5)
>>
>> Desired behaviour:
>> =subtotal(9,a1:a5)
>
> I believe OpenOffic
Hi Patrick,
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 23:30 -0800, Patrick Bakker wrote:
> >> SEMI-COLON INSTEAD OF COMMA AS FUNCTION ARGUMENT SEPARATOR
Kohei (or was it Jody) fixed this many moons ago; I believe the default
is set to improve usability here in LibreOffice; I too fell over this as
my first st
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:32:04 +, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > > - Shift+Del permanently removes the file right then.
>
> Which makes me wonder; should shift-del give you this 'delete contents'
> option in that mode (or is the menu sufficient).
Yes, that is how I would expect it. del doing th
At 5:32am -0500 Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Michael Meeks wrote:
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 23:30 -0800, Patrick Bakker wrote:
SEMI-COLON INSTEAD OF COMMA AS FUNCTION ARGUMENT SEPARATOR
Kohei (or was it Jody) fixed this many moons ago; I believe the
default is set to improve usability here in LibreOffice; I
At 5:32am -0500 Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Michael Meeks wrote:
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 23:30 -0800, Patrick Bakker wrote:
DELETE CELL "HELPER"
The delete cell "helper" dialog box pops up anytime I try to delete
a cell or cell selection. It gives me options to delete some
And this is deadly annoying too
At 5:32am -0500 Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Michael Meeks wrote:
Might be a good easy-hack; how we tell the user in an unobtrusive
way that this has happened, I don't know - some good UI ideas there
appreciated; the 'status bar' is not such a great plan I suspect for
this. "alpha transparent, hovering noti
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 10:32 +, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 23:30 -0800, Patrick Bakker wrote:
> > >> SEMI-COLON INSTEAD OF COMMA AS FUNCTION ARGUMENT SEPARATOR
>
> Kohei (or was it Jody) fixed this many moons ago; I believe the default
> is set to improv
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 07:22 -0500, Kevin Hunter wrote:
> Do you know roughly when? I could have sworn it was 3.0, but perhaps
> that was because of out-of-band patches from the *nix distros I was
> using at the time.
I would say 2.4 or 3.0, and it was only in Go-OO, which most Linux
distros pa
Am 12.11.2010 11:32, schrieb Michael Meeks:
Kohei (or was it Jody) fixed this many moons ago; I believe the default
is set to improve usability here in LibreOffice; I too fell over this as
my first step using calc (as an en_US user). Of course - our patch
'fixes' this only for locales wh
Hi Kevin,
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 07:55 -0500, Kevin Hunter wrote:
> This leads to a perhaps bigger thought process of generally all our
> shortcuts and actions. Is there a list somewhere? Or are these
> piecemeal throughout the code? I do see Tools->Customize, which begins
> to address the k
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 15:08 +0100, Rolf Gloor wrote:
> Am 12.11.2010 11:32, schrieb Michael Meeks:
>
> > Kohei (or was it Jody) fixed this many moons ago; I believe the default
> > is set to improve usability here in LibreOffice; I too fell over this as
> > my first step using calc (as an en_U
Patrick Bakker wrote (12-11-10 02:21)
DELETE CELL "HELPER"
The delete cell "helper" dialog box pops up anytime I try to delete a
cell or cell selection. It gives me options to delete some combination
of text / numbers / date& time / formulas / notes / formats /
objects. Occassionally this is u
Michael Meeks wrote (12-11-10 11:32)
COPY& PASTE TO A CELL WITH AN EXISTING VALUE
I wonder if switching the polarity of the check-box - so it is checked
might help people 'see' it, and thus un-check it to get rid of it (some
Mozilla dialogs do that I guess ?).
Best suggestion I have
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 02:06 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote:
> Default OOo:
> Backspace = delete without options
> Dell = delete with options
>
> Default LibreOffice: the other way round.
>
> Maybe this setting is included in the 'Compatibility options' ?
Sure is. :-) Allow me to refer to this blog
Kohei Yoshida wrote (13-11-10 04:14)
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 02:06 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote:
Default OOo:
Backspace = delete without options
Dell = delete with options
Default LibreOffice: the other way round.
Maybe this setting is included in the 'Compatibility options' ?
Sure is. :-) Al
At 7:57am -0500 Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Kevin Hunter wrote:
At 5:32am -0500 Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Michael Meeks wrote:
I wonder if switching the polarity of the check-box - so it is checked
might help people 'see' it, and thus un-check it to get rid of it
(some Mozilla dialogs do that I guess ?).
Switch
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 17:21 -0800, Patrick Bakker wrote:
> COPY & PASTE TO A CELL WITH AN EXISTING VALUE
>
> The first time I copy and pasted a cell formula into another cell
> which already had something in it a dialog came up asking something
> like "This cell already has a value. Are you sure y
At 9:47am -0500 Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 17:21 -0800, Patrick Bakker wrote:
COPY& PASTE TO A CELL WITH AN EXISTING VALUE
The first time I copy and pasted a cell formula into another cell
which already had something in it a dialog came up asking something
lik
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 09:47 -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> 2) change the polarity of the current dialog so that the user
> *unchecks*
> the check box to dismiss future popups of the dialog, or
Hi folks,
Have been reading along quietly. +1 for that solution.
Best wishes,
Drew
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Hello Santiago,
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 16:04 -0300, Santiago Bosio wrote:
> El 15/11/10 11:47, Kohei Yoshida escribió:
> > So, just to summarize this thread, we have three possible options for
> > this:
> >
> > 1) no changes,
> > 2) change the polarity of the current dialog so that the user *unche
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 09:47 -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> If so, I'd say let's make this change on the
> master branch.
Ok, done on master. Testing appreciated.
Kohei
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On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 16:06 -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 09:47 -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> > If so, I'd say let's make this change on the
> > master branch.
>
> Ok, done on master. Testing appreciated.
One implementation note. I've implemented this by making changes to
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