[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Fwd: [PATCH] Hide the rulers in Writer by default for a cleaner look]

[Jean-Francois Nifenecker]

Le 01/11/2012 11:32, Michael Meeks a écrit :
> Hi guys,
>
> 	Thoughts on this ? I guess there are issues around seeing / creating
> tabs etc.
>
> 	ATB,
>
> 		Michael.
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: [PATCH] Hide the rulers in Writer by default for a cleaner look
> I have submitted a patch for review:
>
>      https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/956
> ...
> Hide the rulers in Writer by default for a cleaner look
>
> This is consistent with Impress. Might need to be discussed with ux-advise
>

Certainly *not*

Rulers -- that I don't use to set tab stops or something -- help having 
a global view of the document.

Hiding rulers, hiding the document margins, hiding the non-printable 
chars are all children of the same kind: hide "things" to user, things 
that *are* indeed useful for an intelligent use of the tools.

Opposite to what software creators say to ignorants: computing is *not* 
easy. Computing is *not* intuitive at all. Computing has to be learnt 
and taught. In this regard, text automation *must* be learnt. I strongly 
beg the powers-that-be in LibO to understand that hiding things will 
*not* help users, it will make them more difficult to use the software.

We, as a free-software, have a responsibility: make the people 
understand that, whatever tool they elect, they have to understand it 
then to learn its use.

So I repeat my answer: the rulers must certainly *not* be hidden, 
neither in Writer nor in Impress.
-- 
Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux