[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 33173] Tabbed UI (Writer): Division/section-per-tab (similar to Lotus WordPro)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33173

--- Comment #46 from roland at logikalsolutions.com ---
(In reply to Todd from comment #44)
> (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #43)
> > No question that we have to improve the Navigator, a proposal is here [1].
> > But despite all the shortcommings the basic way of dealing with content is
> > working well. From the WYSIWYG point of view I doubt that putting content in
> > tabbed sections is working well for the majority of users. And there are
> > also many requests to have tabs for multiple documents in one app that would
> > clash with your proposal.
> > 
> 
> Hi Heiko,
> 
> I use both.  There is no comparison between the annoyance of the Navigator
> and effectiveness division tabs.  This is why you now have an army of folks
> requestion them.  I am not suggesting that you drop the navigator, but add
> the extra usability feature of Division Tabs.  And of course, add the tabs
> into the Navigator as well.
> 
> I am a consultant to small business.  I have installed installed LibreOffice
> on probably a hundred client's computers.  I only have one company that uses
> LibreOffice and another that half uses it.  Everyone else has removed it in
> favour of you-know-who, which I also sell.  Part of the reason is that they
> don't want to learn anything new, which you can do nothing about.  The other
> part is of the reason is that so many of the features are difficult and
> obscure to use.  Please take your users input and try to make LibreOffice
> better.
> 
> If you keep digging your feet in, your will continue to loose users.  I
> don't loose them, I just sell the you-know-who from the evil empire.
> 

I would like to point out that Lotus SmartSuite didn't fail in the marketplace.
IBM and Microsoft were having a tiff over the Windows code in OS/2. Microsoft
pulled all of their developers from the IBM location (somewhere down near
Florida if I remember correctly) and IBM did not have the staff or
institutional knowledge to maintain OS/2. The SmartSuite team was located there
as well. It ran on both OS/2 and Windows. It lost a lot of members and
knowledge as well. The remaining staff got rolled into the Notes team/group and
SmartSuite was sunset.

IBM has a looooong history of sunsetting PC products which are industry leaders
because upper management only wants to focus on mainframes and services.

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