[Libreoffice] Calc usability improvements

Kevin Hunter hunteke at earlham.edu
Mon Nov 15 06:59:32 PST 2010


At 9:47am -0500 Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 17:21 -0800, Patrick Bakker wrote:
>> COPY&  PASTE TO A CELL WITH AN EXISTING VALUE
>>
>> The first time I copy and pasted a cell formula into another cell
>> which already had something in it a dialog came up asking something
>> like "This cell already has a value. Are you sure you want to do copy
>> a new value in?" EXTREMELY annoying.
>
> So, just to summarize this thread, we have three possible options for
> this:
>
> 1) no changes,
> 2) change the polarity of the current dialog so that the user *unchecks*
> the check box to dismiss future popups of the dialog, or
> 3) remove this entirely.
>
> And based on how I read all the inputs on this thread, 2) is the
> preferred solution by the vast majority of people.
>
> Is this a fair assessment?  If so, I'd say let's make this change on the
> master branch.

Heh, I think the only dissenter was me, and I already pointed out that I 
don't know what I was smoking last week.  :-)

So yes, I believe you've made an accurate assessment.

Cheers,

Kevin


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