On 13/10/10 01:34, Paul A Norman wrote:
I appreciate you doing this, and at the risk of hi-jacking this thread, perhaps
we can also request that LibO developers put some thought into resolving the
long list of counter-intuitive and unnecessarily complex ways of going about
things that currently plague OOo from text wrapping in Impress to watermarks in
Writer to the intransigence of bullets to be indented, etc. These kinds of
small incremental modifications would, I think, help make LibO more successful.
This would probably warrant a whole forum level of its own, and would
provide a valuable resource for developers. Ironing out a list of such
things from the very beginning woud definetly put the development
process into getting LiBO right uo "there", well ahead.
OOO has in a sense grown incrementally - with the consequence of some
things being added on top of things or grafted in, and is this new
venture going to provide the oppertunity to identify what those things
may be, and set things straight before more layers are added on top?
As a non-programmer, [1] I haven't a clue as to how to influence what
happens in a piece of software that I rely on to handle the demands of
my postgraduate studies course work as well as for my family's personal
use. I +do+ know what works for me as a user however, and my partner is
quite vocal in her dissatisfaction/ frustration with a given user
operation or UI design issues, so between the two of us there are a
number of niggles - not bugs, or at least, not that I can categorically
define as such - that make OOo/ LibO feel clunky and awkward at times, &
as a generally very user I would like to contribute in some small way.
A top-level forum for users to provide feature/ amendment requests &
feedback to developers might be a pretty good thing to make LibO driven
by a user base as the (certainly in my case!) grateful beneficiary of
robust (i.e. stable, resource efficient & secure) code that stays out of
the way of the user, does what the user wants it to do in a way that is
either intuitive or self-evident to the user, and offers a clean and
meaningful UI.
Not really asking for a lot then, am I? :-)
Cheers
AG
[1] Altho' I've dabbled & while I find it fascinating by what can be
accomplished with basic electronic on/ off switches, I stumble at object
oriented programming & classes, etc., and have difficulty expressing
concepts in code (Python, Scheme, bash, C, netLOGO - the common
denominator is me!
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