Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?

Hi :)
+1 
wrt to the tabs

Also 
+1 
wrt the bad first stab at side-toolbar

Hopefully these things will change in some future release.  Hopefully as Extensions that could be 
used in LO ;)
Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>; users@openoffice.apache.org; 
> users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Sunday, 4 August 2013, 23:28
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?
>
>
> To me, the AOO sidebar properties panel adds nothing. As you said, it only 
> duplicates the top toolbar. More importantly (for me at least), the styles 
> panel is buried *beneath* the properties panel. With LO, this is where I 
> dock the styles panel. So, now, with AOO, I have to do an extra click to 
> gain access to the styles panel. I've tried several times to find a way to 
> put the styles panel on top (as I have absolutely no need for the properties 
> panel), and I have yet to find a way that works. I may be missing something 
> that the AOO folks can explain to me.
>
> I understand that the properties panel was taken from the Symphony user 
> interface. But, much, much, more desirable would have been Symphony's tabbed 
> document interface. So many programs have it, and it is soooooo useful that 
> I don't understand why neither LO nor AOO have adopted it (yet).
>
> Virgil
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Tom Davies
> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 3:35 PM
> To: Virgil Arrington ; users@openoffice.apache.org ; 
> users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?
>
> Hi :)
> Just out of curiosity has anyone tried the Apache OpenOffice 4.0 yet?
>
> I really liked the sound of the toolbar down the side so i just gave it a 
> quick go.  I was a tad disappointed to find that toolbar was in addition to 
> the ones we both already have at the top and mostly was just a duplication 
> of many of those buttons.  However 1st time try-outs of new things seldom go 
> completely smoothly!  lol
>
> I would really like to see both LO and AOO go this route and faster.  At the 
> moment all programs seem intent on making the screen more and more like a 
> letter-box slit with more and more wasted space at the sides and more and 
> more crammed in at the top&bottom.
>
> It's becoming tougher and tougher to see a whole document all at the same 
> time.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> > ________________________________
> > From: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> > To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>; users@openoffice.apache.org; 
> > users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 1:29
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?
> >
> >
> > Thanks, Tom. I always disable quickstarter as a matter of course.
> >
> > Virgil
> >
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Tom Davies
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 7:13 PM
> > To: Virgil Arrington ; users@openoffice.apache.org ;
> > users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?
> >
> > Hi :)
> > I think it's the same conflicts as between any 2 versions of LibreOffice or
> > any 2 versions of AOO or OOo.  Basically avoid having both open at the same
> > time.  That might mean turning off the Quickstarter of both of them.
> >
> > This link might help
> > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel#Windows
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> > > To: users@openoffice.apache.org; users@global.libreoffice.org
> > > Sent: Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 20:38
> > > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?
> > >
> > >
> > > Are there any known conflicts with having LO 4.0.4 and AOO 4.0 installed 
> > > on
> > > the same computer? In my never-ending, obsessive (and admittedly futile)
> > > search for computing perfection, I want to try both programs to see which
> > > better meets my techno-needs.
> > >
> > > Virgil
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