On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 20:02:58 +0100 Tomasz Małecki <tmtmale...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Sirs, > > I'm writing to you with regards to what concerns me the most while using > Open Office of your design. > > I truely i deeply acknowledge the fact that your software is free to use > and stems from a great idea of making the world a better place, at least in > the field of text editing. However, there is something I need to take vote > against... > > I hate using Microsoft Office due to its misconcepted ideas of what is best > for most people. Their software behaves as if it knew better what a user > wants, and averting its own actions is not only time-consuming but annoying > to the point of abuse. > > Once I hoped to find a better text editor, and it happened - I liked the > Apache Open Office at first sight. With time the changes you introduced > happened to worry me more and more - you decided to follow the steps of the > aforementioned company, which makes your software incrementally > unergonomic/user unfriendly. > > > My message is 'let people decide what to key in, what to do, what to make a > text look like, and not think for them as if you knew better'. Allow them > to choose, not to fight your own ideas. Unchecking certain options is not > easy not only due to the jargon but also because one has to spend hours on > finding what has just happened to the text and how to disable it > permanently. > > Sometimes more is less, and less is more. > If the automatic (but configurable) formatting features of OpenOffice are disabled, then there is no point in using it. If you find them obtrusive, then you may be using the wrong application for your needs. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
