Le 01/11/2012 11:32, Michael Meeks a écrit :
Hi guys,
Thoughts on this ? I guess there are issues around seeing / creating
tabs etc.
ATB,
Michael.
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Subject: [PATCH] Hide the rulers in Writer by default for a cleaner look
I have submitted a patch for review:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/956
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Hide the rulers in Writer by default for a cleaner look
This is consistent with Impress. Might need to be discussed with ux-advise
Certainly *not*Rulers -- that I don't use to set tab stops or something -- help having a global view of the document.
Hiding rulers, hiding the document margins, hiding the non-printable chars are all children of the same kind: hide "things" to user, things that *are* indeed useful for an intelligent use of the tools.
Opposite to what software creators say to ignorants: computing is *not* easy. Computing is *not* intuitive at all. Computing has to be learnt and taught. In this regard, text automation *must* be learnt. I strongly beg the powers-that-be in LibO to understand that hiding things will *not* help users, it will make them more difficult to use the software.
We, as a free-software, have a responsibility: make the people understand that, whatever tool they elect, they have to understand it then to learn its use.
So I repeat my answer: the rulers must certainly *not* be hidden, neither in Writer nor in Impress.
-- Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux