Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Should formatting apply to word at cursor position or only characters typed after formatting was invoked

2012-12-09 Thread Daniel Mania
Great to see that this will change in the future! Many biologists and chemists will be happy about this :-) I also wouldn't mind having it as an option, although that might clutter up the options dialog. But there is still the possibility to have an Advanced options tab for experienced users

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Should formatting apply to word at cursor position or only characters typed after formatting was invoked

2012-12-07 Thread Daniel Mania
Hei everyone! A while ago I filed a bug report and I had to realize that I am looking at a design choice here. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46517 Basically, when the cursor resides in a word (after first or in front of the last character of the word), all formats apply to the

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] simplifying the border width settings

2012-11-20 Thread Daniel Mania
Michael are you seriously trying to say that you think that the current border UI ... is clean or intuitive for the user and we shouldn't think about improving that ? No sorry, that should be changed. And I agree that it is a good idea to make things look similar to MSO, _if_ it has to be

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] simplifying the border width settings

2012-11-19 Thread Daniel Mania
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

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Advice required on auto text resize (Impress)

2012-10-08 Thread Daniel Mania
Hei hei! I agree with Mirek and think Autofit should be removed or optional (with the default being off). And I don't think we have to take exporting presentations to PPTX into consideration. The export to Microsoft Office is so bad (yes I know, it's Microsoft's fault!) that text size is the

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] page borders (bug 52327)

2012-09-05 Thread Daniel Mania
Hei hei! For the first time since I work with LibreOffice, I tried to make Calc print what I want, instead of what Calc wants ... and the result is not very encouraging. I have a document with 4 columns and 20 rows, that are smaller than my paper format A4. I'd like Calc to scale those cells

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Any thoughts on fdo#44941?

2012-09-04 Thread Daniel Mania
On 3.9.2012 17:43, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote: Hi Daniel, On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 10:55 +0200, Daniel Mania wrote: A double click sounds like an OK idea to me, if the header/footer is only created after text has been written to the header/footer (similar to newly created textboxes that disappear when no text

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Any thoughts on fdo#44941?

2012-09-03 Thread Daniel Mania
Hei hei! A double click sounds like an OK idea to me, if the header/footer is only created after text has been written to the header/footer (similar to newly created textboxes that disappear when no text was entered and cursor focus is put somewhere outside the textbox). At least it is

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Change LibreOffice's behavior of how formatting is applied

2012-08-07 Thread Daniel Mania
:58, Mirek M. wrote: On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Daniel Mania daniel.ma...@umb.no mailto:daniel.ma...@umb.no wrote: Hei hei! Some time ago I filed a bug report (ID 46517) about LibreOffice's subscript/superscript behavior. This report got closed and I would like to discuss

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Change LibreOffice's behavior of how formatting is applied

2012-08-06 Thread Daniel Mania
Hei hei! Some time ago I filed a bug report (ID 46517) about LibreOffice's subscript/superscript behavior. This report got closed and I would like to discuss it here instead and also expand it to formatting in general. Currently, if the user activates any formatting (e.g. Text bold), the

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] paste special in LibO calc

2012-07-27 Thread Daniel Mania
Hei! Kees 538 wrote (01-03-12 11:14) When you use paste special in calc all options (accept value) are enabled. You have to disable all options you don't need and enable the value option (if you need this one) ... In version 3.6 we got a very nice Paste Only. It can paste Text, Number and

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] A sheet by default

2012-05-21 Thread Daniel Mania
I don't see a big problem with three initial sheets, but I agree that starting with only one is the better option here. It is especially confusing when users don't rename the default sheets so that there is no indication at all that they contain data. Or could we have an indicator (colored bar

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Full customization of LibreOffice

2012-05-06 Thread Daniel Mania
Here is another suggestion ... this time less difficult to implement. One thing that has been bothering me for some time now is that LibreOffice is not giving me enough freedom to customize everything I want to. Users can create their own document templates, but we cannot create templates for

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Full customization of LibreOffice

2012-05-06 Thread Daniel Mania
OK, once again I underestimated the effort needed ... I would be happy to start a whiteboard together with someone who actually has some programming skills, if the list agrees. DM From:

Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Unified behaviour of all LibreOffice applications

2012-05-02 Thread Daniel Mania
...@lists.freedesktop.org [libreoffice-ux-advise-bounces+daniel.mania=umb...@lists.freedesktop.org] on behalf of Cedric Bosdonnat [cbosdon...@suse.com] Sent: 02 May 2012 10:19 To: Daniel Mania Cc: LibreOffice-UX Subject: Re: [Libreoffice-ux-advise] Unified behaviour of all LibreOffice applications On Mon, 2012

[Libreoffice-ux-advise] Unified behaviour of all LibreOffice applications

2012-04-30 Thread Daniel Mania
Hello everyone! I have been reading some discussions on this mailing list and I would like to make a proposal that is probably extremely difficult to set into action: The behaviour of all LibreOffice applications should be similar. This actually was a bug report some time ago, but