In a message dated 2009.11.24 04:31 -0500, Uwe Fischer wrote:
... In the Table toolbar, the Background Color applies not to the
table or cell itself, but to paragraph/text within a table or cell.
Via the Table main menu or context menu, however, the Background
Color applies to all of the table or cell. (The difference is
easily seen if you increase the border margins.) This seems to me
erroneous on multiple levels: There are other ways to apply a
paragraph/text background color (including via the Formatting
toolbar), without also using the Table toolbar for that function.
Should not the Table toolbar provide shortcuts to Table functions?
This is not the only case where a toolbar function is different
from the "equivalent" function via the menu; I just chose it
because it is easily visible. It seems to me that a certain lack
of consistency in nomenclature and methods raises the OO learning
curve unnecessarily, and that toolbar functions being different
from menu functions, as a class, fall into that category. ...
.... If you want to get into some valid discussions about UI, you
would want to join one or more of the UX (user experience) mailing
lists. The UX project web page is at http://ux.openoffice.org/ The
lists [email protected] and [email protected] are quite
active. Those lists have a much higher probability of being read by
the people in charge of actively initiating such changes.
Uwe,
Initially the problem is to know whether what seems a UI issue is one's
own failure to grasp the functional reasoning. However, at this point I
guess these /are/ user interface issues, aren't they? Anyway, now that I
am subscribed, I will just follow the lists for a while and see how
discussions unfold.
Thanks again for the guidance,
John
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