It's amazingly strange to me how words/phrases can be used with no relation to their original meanings; oxymorons I guess are here to stay.
Would someone please explain to me how some of these 'user friendly' ideas came to be so called; when, in fact, they merely complicated & confused, ex. in vehicles, the automatic window rather than manually rolling the window; with these automatic windows, it is impossible to roll down the window unless the engine is running - which is quite frustrating and can be seriously dangerous. ex. in computers, each time a new programming language appears, the simplicity disappears further. ex. in 'phones, with the change to push buttons - which then became smaller & smaller - it's nearly impossible to dial the number without clicking on more than one button; (when the pad of one finger touches one key, the nail touches another) ex. in televisions, with the change to remotes - these keyboards also became smaller & smaller - the on-off button disappeared from the set along with the other buttons; which makes it impossible to walk to the set to do anything - must pick up the remote to do whatever; and here too - it's nearly impossible to punch one button without clicking on more than one button; (when the pad of one finger touches one key, the nail touches another) etc. etc. etc. ... ... ... From: Nino Novak <nn.l...@kflog.org> Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:03 AM Subject: [libreoffice-users] User Friendly Documentation [was: Re: LibreOffice's documentation (pdf and online)] To: users@global.libreoffice.org On 24.06.2015 at 22:15, toki wrote: > What would "user friendly" look like to you? very nice question :) To me, "user friendly" would match following criteria: + complete + up to date + online + with option to download and use locally + context sensitive + multi language + user commentable + with option to hide comments + with "helpful/not helpful" rating enabled + with option to show top rated comments first and, for community/contribution interested users: + collaborativly created (like a wiki) (which is different from comment function!) + nice2have: views/downloads counter The best example AFAIK is php documentation [1] but it's written by techies for techies (aka freak2freak), whilest LibO has (hopefully) a lot of non-freak users. [1] http://php.net/docs.php -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted