Hi Steve, My responses are given in-line with your original message.
-------- Original Message -------- From: S F <[email protected]> To: Apache OpenOffice Users <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 21:52:59 -0800 > 1) It is quite hard to just 'drop an email to' open office. I don't really > want to sign up, log it, make an account etc. No you don't have to "sign up" to email this list. As you have done here, just write your email and send it to the list. Because you are not subscribed your message went through the moderation process, this delayed receipt of your message by a few minutes. So it's not exactly "hard" to contact Apache OpenOffice. > So there is a huge disincentive to provide feedback to open office about > stuff that people think should be changed. > > Assuming open office is trying to satisfy as many people as possible, then if > we don't like it, open office should change it. Who are "we"? All of us, you and I included, are just users of the software and a few of us users volunteer to contribute to the project in one way or another. As the old saying goes, "You can please some of the people some of the time, but you cannot please all of the people all of the time." You may want the software to work one way, which might be totally opposite to the way I want it to the way I want it to work. So who wins? In so far as it possible, the software offers many configuration options that allow us to configure things to suit our own requirements. You suggest that it should be possible to just post here and get something changed to your preference. If that were the way things worked, how would your fellow users be able to guess or accurately assess what was in your mind? Which of your fellow users on this list would pick up your issue and be willing to do the work of entering the bug/rfe report that you were unwilling to do yourself? There are thousands of reports in the bug reporting system consisting of: * New reports awaiting confirmation or rejection. * Unconfirmed reports awaiting more information from the reporter. * Confirmed reports being worked on by a volunteer. * Confirmed reports awaiting a volunteer to work on them. Plus numerous requests for new/additional features and feature changes. The "real world" situation is that we have thousands of reporters and only a relatively small number of volunteer contributors. > Here's the thing: > It is very frustrating to simply type part of a line, then go to the next > line, and type part of a line without open office writer double spacing. So: > > Want this: > > Blah blah blah > Blah blah blah. > > Get this: > > Blah blah blah > > Blah blah blah. > > I can single space partial lines by carriage return without causing double > space on every app except open office writer; it automatically seems to > double space. I don't really care why it does this, or how to get around > it. Just change it, please! > > It is very very frustrating, making it impossible to create a > professional-looking piece of writing. > > Thanks, > Steve Here is prime example of a bug report that would definitely be a rejected, because I and millions of other users would vehemently oppose the change you are asking for. What you describe as double line spacing is in fact paragraph spacing. If you want a new line (soft line break) within a sentence, not a new paragraph (hard break), hold down the shift key while tapping the enter key. Dave
