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<div>Dear <span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Paul</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">, </span><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">12 дек. 2019 г. 17:30 пользователь paul hofseth <paul@hofseth.co> написал:<br type="attribution">
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<p dir="ltr">Sirs, <br>
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please do not waste scarce coding resources on thoroughly trivial <br>
matters like colours and signage, but rather on making the programs more <br>
practical to use - such as for instance having the choice of typeface <br>
as a sdeparate item, not hidden inside the multiple format choices. <br>
Risking ostracism fro monotounous suggestions, I repeat my wish for <br>
sequential views of single pages with as little jumbling as possible of <br>
text and illsustrations when proofreading long documents <br>
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<div dir="auto">Please <span style="font-family: sans-serif;">do not waste scarce coding resources on thoroughly trivial </span></div>
<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">matters like telling others what to do, but rather on making the programs more </span><br style="font-family: sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">practical to use!</span>
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<div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">Why do I write this rather harsh statement? Not in the hope that you would start doing what I wrote, but to show you one important aspect that you seem to overlook. What would you do if you actually be denied of a way
to contribute by expressing your opinions and wishes, and demanded to do something entirely different for the project? For most, such requirement would not mean they started contributing differently; that would mean they stopped contributing at all. Most people
here contribute for one of two reasons: either being paid for the work by their employers/customers, or doing things they *can* for own enjoyment. Not everyone here likes or is able to do what you'd want them to do to fix your pet bug; and your expectation
that if you deny someone of doing what *you* consider "trivial" would free the resources for a different task, are just plain wrong: instead of improving the areas you are interested in, we would simply loose those who love and able to contribute in areas
*others* are interested in, nothing else.</font></div>
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<div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">By the way, I actually deem the importance of *your* contriburion (expressing your opinion about LibreOffice and its future, feeling for it, and proposing something) wery high. So please don't take the initial statement
seriously, but just as a way to illustrate my point.</font></div>
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<div dir="auto">Best regards,</div>
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<div dir="auto">Mike Kaganski</div>
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