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Hi Kohei, Michael, all!

Am Donnerstag, den 10.11.2011, 15:44 -0500 schrieb Kohei Yoshida:
On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 12:20 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
On Thu, 2011-11-10 at 12:51 +0100, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
Isnt this something for ux-advise?

Sure.

Sure ;-)

    Agreed. IMHO by the time we have worked hard to make the question
comprehensible to people answering "Yes" "No" - hopefully we realise
that Yes/No answers are fundamentally broken anyway and IMHO ~all of
them should be killed ;-)

    Could we not fix the text and also the button texts at the same
time ? ;-)

While we are at it, please bear in mind

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30456

Apparently some users want the contents of the hidden cells to be
removed when merging them *and* not choosing the contents to be joined
together.

Absolutely true ... there are lots of tiny use cases that cannot be
resolved completely (e.g. AutoCorrect magic) and sometimes need user
involvement. On the other hand, such pre-action-questions are efficiency
killers. What can be done, is to use sensible defaults and let the user
decide afterwards if something was wrong. (There is a nice theory about
the level of automation that applies here...)

About four years ago, I've made up a wiki page to address this problem
([1] it is an enhanced version of the Action Refinements available in
Microsoft Office). Each time such a question like "merge should do ...",
I do mention this proposal, but people usually respond with "such a tiny
issue, let's solve that quickly with <insert_suboptimal_solution_here>".

Michael, all, is it finally time to address all these tiny issues
properly by planning such a LibreOffice enhancement? (hint, hint, *g*)

Cheers,
Christoph

[1]
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=User_Experience/DirectManipulationSnippets&oldid=69731


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