Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice UI should be tweaked, not reinvented

2010/11/4 Craig A. Eddy <tyche@cox.net>

> Robert, I'm sorry, but I must
> disagree with you.I'm not a developer, I'm a user.I will admit that
> I started with Microsoft Word (More years ago than I'm comfortable
> admitting), but switched to OO.o as soon as it came out.It's only
> just recently that I've begun to understand how to use (and create)
> styles because of the complexity and lack of intuitiveness involved.That,
> coupled with the gadawful heading and text styles left me with
> having to adjust the Microsoft way - manually.I would much rather be
> able to set up a style and have a document stick to it than to have to
> go through manually and adjust everything just because I made a
> change.But, not being a "trained" power-user, the best I can do is
> stumble along learning by accident.And, just in the way of introduction, I
> have been many things in my
> life.In one job, alone (that I held for 15 1/2 years), I was a
> self-taught AutoCAD operator, a self-taught webmaster and website
> designer, a brochure and flier creator, and the jack-leg systems
> administrator that answered such questions as "how do I do this with
> this program" (a program with which I was unfamiliar and didn't have
> installed on my machine), or "how come my machine keeps slowing
> down/crashing" (people just won't learn about viruses).I am looking forward
> to LibreOffice as the new freedom from Microsoft
> thinking.Craig A. EddyOn 11/04/2010 11:19 AM, Robert Derman wrote:Sebastian
> Spaeth wrote:On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:55:19 +0100, Johannes
> Bausch wrote:things concerning tables. We absolutely
> HAVE to make the user use thestylesheet stuff, and it must be so easy that
> they start to use it onone-paged documents.Removing the font chooser, and
> font-size selector would save lots ofspace that could be replaced with a
> simple style chooser :)Here I have to disagree, non power users are much
> more likely to use
> the font chooser and size selector than they are to have anything at
> all to do with styles.

On styles: http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2010/11/08/citrus-styles/

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