[Libreoffice] LO status bar annoyances

[Friedrich Strohmaier]

Hi Wol, *,

Wols Lists schrieb:

> On 10/12/10 21:18, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:

[.. who misses useless UI features ..]

>> Again: see above. ("You told me to click the exclamation mark -
>> where should I click now?").

> Unfortunately, this then plays havoc with the next bunch of users -
> who have at least partially learnt how to use the interface. One
> thing the normal user (one step above the "blindly follow the cheat
> sheet" monkey) values, is a *consistent* interface.

Totally agreed! Even the "BFTCS" monkey won't bother. A reasonably share
of them become so for reason of missing that. ;o))

> And I know there's no such thing as "intuitive", but I still compare
> Word and WordPerfect ... I moved to WordPerfect from my previous word
> processors from choice, I didn't have to learn WordPerfect, it was
> just "obvious".

I can confirm. Even never meeting WordPerfect, but I sadly miss the UI
from Lotus Smartsuite. Infobox, Approach - my first method sorting
textfiles was generating Approach database tables exporting them
afterwords!

> I *still* (despite using it for many years) don't
> know how to use Word properly.

Even worse: I don't with OpenOffice.org - bad world. :o))

And therefore I settled my horse fighting the battle of the brave to get
back, what I left some 8 Years ago: a consistent and even more
*intuitive* Interface!

OpenOffice.org itself tougth me: Accidently decisions by software
developers stumbling over and fixing their favorite UI annoyances does
not bear this.

There have to be a plan to bring all the knowledge about that to a
point, where this will grow from. This list definitly isn't that point.


Gruß/regards
-- 
Friedrich
Libreoffice-Box http://libreofficebox.org/
LibreOffice and more on CD/DVD images
(german version already started)