Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Suppression of Blank Lines in Addresses in Labels and Envelopes from Data Base

Alan Reeve wrote:
> On 09/02/2011 12:05, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > On 2011-02-09 6:12 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> > > As to your bug correction request, you would be better off filing a bug
> > > report at freedesktop.org, which is where TDF has decided that all such
> > > reports should be filed, or even better still with Oracle.
> > And/or the Openoffice bug tracker (shudder)...
> Thank you for your suggestion.  I requested OOo to improve this about 
> 18 months ago and guess what....
>
> Alan
As I have come to understand it, this is one of the most important 
reasons for the OOo/LO fork.  Corporate management is who decides which 
bugs get exterminated, and which are ignored with corporate supported 
OOo.  With LO, it becomes more of a case of if a volunteer 
developer/programmer gets annoyed by a bug, or enough users complain 
about it, it gets fixed. 


I myself only use Writer, if I get time I might use Base to make a 
database of my DVD movie collection, but I am not likely to use any of 
the other modules.  As a very heavy user of Writer, I make extensive use 
of word completion, but I have known for years that this feature could 
be much better with a few small changes like, a few choices in its 
control menu, like have a PERMANENT dictionary where gather words could 
be turned off, and the program would use a permanent dictionary, or a 
change where strings containing all caps, punctuation marks other than ' 
apostrophe (in English) or numerals would never be added to the 
completion dictionary.  I have seen several improvements to this feature 
over the years, but never really important ones. 


One really BIG improvement that needs to be made is so that upgrades 
consist of patches rather than complete replacement of the program.  
This would be a HUGE improvement for all those people who do not have 
access to high-speed internet connections.  It is because of the extreme 
inconvenience of such upgrading methods that I choose to only upgrade 
for MAJOR upgrades like when LO 4.0 comes out.  I just don't think it is 
worth all the trouble for incremental upgrades like from 3.2 to 3.3.

Note:  I know that the use of all caps is considered bad form, but I 
find that many email systems can't properly handle boldface.

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