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On 19/11/12 10:32, Daniel Mania wrote:
Hei hei!

Why do we "need to keep being compatible" with Microsoft Office at all? 
1) Users who switch from Microsoft Office do that for a reason and they 
should expect some differences!
2) Document compatibility is a great idea, but until Microsoft Office 
import works well enough, there is no point in cluttering up LibreOffice 
with "legacy options". Anything more complicated than "Hello world" gets 
messed up after importing it from MSO into LibreOffice.

the whole point of the new borders that were added in LO 3.4 was to
improve the Microsoft Office import/export fidelity.

How about cleaning up the LibreOffice interface, before introducing 
additional elements? There are still smaller inconsistencies like the 
table border button, which is only a pull down menu without a separate 
pull down menu arrow and an "apply current setting" button next to each 
other. Or the two different types of rectangle and circle shapes in Calc 
and Writer ... Even though many of the other irregularities have been 
cleaned up already.

are you seriously trying to say that you think that the current border
UI that allows setting the width independently of the line style with a
simple text input widget, where many line widths do not actually make
sense for quite a number of line styles (e.g. try setting line widths <
1pt for double border styles and see how they look) is "clean" or
intuitive for the user and we shouldn't think about improving that ?



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