Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing Libreoffice in Ubuntu

+1 to Virgil's comments.
Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA

On 10/11/2015 02:24 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> On 10/11/2015 02:37 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > +1 to both points.
> >
> > The UI issue is cropping up more often but many people, get over their
> > initial dislike and prefer the return to sanity because it makes it 
> > easier
> > to find things and easier to learn new stuff.
>
> UI changes frustrate me to no end. I tend to commit to learning a 
> given piece of software so that its commands become second nature. 
> Back in the days of DOS, I was a PC-Write wizard, having learned the 
> old Wordstar Ctrl-key combinations and PC-Write's function key 
> combinations. Certainly, the multi-tasking GUI's of Windows and Linux 
> simply do more things, but I've never found any program with which I 
> could match my productivity with PC-Write (in terms of just getting 
> things done).
>
> One frustration I've noticed recently is with LO's "Sidebar." In the 
> past, I had my paragraph styles locked in a Sidebar. Now, the Styles 
> box shares the Sidebar with the Properties, Gallery, and Navigator 
> boxes, and when I open a new file, it defaults to the Properties box 
> (a la AOO), when I *want* the Styles box. So, with every document, I 
> now have to click on the Styles icon in the Sidebar. I've looked 
> everywhere to find a way to make "Styles" the default Sidebar box, but 
> with no luck. To, me this was a totally unnecessary UI "improvement."
>
> If I could echo Andreas with a message to the developers. Please stop 
> making changes just to make changes. Every UI change forces the user 
> to change the way s/he uses the program, and those changes affect our 
> personal performance and productivity, at least until we learn the new 
> system. Yes, once the new UI is learned, it, too, becomes second 
> nature, but I've rarely found a new UI to improve performance so much 
> as to justify its replacement of the older way of working.
>
> Virgil

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Blessings, Joe
Joshua 24:15 .... "as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."


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