Re: [tdf-discuss] Survey|Opinion - LibreOffice Install and Update

On 13/10/10 01:34, Paul A Norman wrote:
> > I appreciate you doing this, and at the risk of hi-jacking this thread, perhaps we can also request 
> > that LibO developers put some thought into resolving the long list of counter-intuitive and 
> > unnecessarily complex ways of going about things that currently plague OOo from text wrapping in 
> > Impress to watermarks in Writer to the intransigence of bullets to be indented, etc.  These kinds 
> > of small incremental modifications would, I think, help make LibO more successful.
> >      
> This would probably warrant a whole forum level of its own, and would
> provide a valuable resource for developers. Ironing out a list of such
> things from the very beginning woud definetly put the development
> process into getting LiBO right uo "there", well ahead.
>
>
> OOO has in a sense grown incrementally - with the consequence of some
> things being added on top of things or grafted in, and is this new
> venture going to provide the oppertunity to identify what those things
> may be, and set things straight before more layers are added on top?
>    

As a non-programmer, [1] I haven't a clue as to how to influence what 
happens in a piece of software that I rely on to handle the demands of 
my postgraduate studies course work as well as for my family's personal 
use.  I +do+ know what works for me as a user however, and my partner is 
quite vocal in her dissatisfaction/ frustration with a given user 
operation or UI design issues, so between the two of us there are a 
number of niggles - not bugs, or at least, not that I can categorically 
define as such - that make OOo/ LibO feel clunky and awkward at times, & 
as a generally very user I would like to contribute in some small way.

A top-level forum for users to provide feature/ amendment requests & 
feedback to developers might be a pretty good thing to make LibO driven 
by a user base as the (certainly in my case!) grateful beneficiary of 
robust (i.e. stable, resource efficient & secure) code that stays out of 
the way of the user, does what the user wants it to do in a way that is 
either intuitive or self-evident to the user, and offers a clean and 
meaningful UI.

Not really asking for a lot then, am I?  :-)

Cheers

AG

[1] Altho' I've dabbled & while I find it fascinating by what can be 
accomplished with basic electronic on/ off switches, I stumble at object 
oriented programming & classes, etc., and have difficulty expressing 
concepts in code (Python, Scheme, bash, C, netLOGO - the common 
denominator is me!

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