Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-07-10 Thread Kay Schenk
On 05/23/2014 09:15 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 5:06 AM, Tal Daniel wrote: >> +1 for Adding a "Report a bug/issue" link, that will open Bugzilla/issues >> site. >> >> Making it easier for people to reports bugs conveys an implicit message of >> "we want your feedback". >> > >

Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/05/2014 circulars wrote: One reason seems to be for lack of sufficient detail to replicate the bug from scratch, even though its existence is not in dispute. *Issue 124772* https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124772 This shows some formatting gone wrong, but indeed unless we fin

Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 5:06 AM, Tal Daniel wrote: > +1 for Adding a "Report a bug/issue" link, that will open Bugzilla/issues > site. > > Making it easier for people to reports bugs conveys an implicit message of > "we want your feedback". > Here's the challenge: What happens when we make it e

Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-16 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Hi Brennan, first of all sorry for the late response, we had a mail outage at Apache and mails are coming in with a huge delay. But anyway thanks for sharing your experience with us and proposing some good ideas how to improve this. There is indeed a lot of room for improvements. Your described p

Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-16 Thread Andrew Rist
On 5/15/2014 11:22 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 08/05/2014 Brennan Novak wrote: Here is a link explaining the current user experience flow which I experienced as a major pain point this morning trying to file my first OpenOffice bug report: https://brennannovak.com/notes/432 Thanks for this!

Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-16 Thread Tal Daniel
+1 for Adding a "Report a bug/issue" link, that will open Bugzilla/issues site. Making it easier for people to reports bugs conveys an implicit message of "we want your feedback". Brennan, did you file your idea as an enhancemet request? Tal On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Brennan Novak wrote

Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-16 Thread circulars
Improving OpenOffice's User Experience +1 for Adding a "Report a bug/issue" link, that will open Bugzilla/issues site. Making it easier for people to reports bugs conveys an implicit message of "we want your feedback". Brennan, did you file your idea as an enhancemet req

Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-16 Thread circulars
What about adding 'report a bug' as a menu item in Open Office itself - maybe under Help? If that would produce too much traffic, perhaps it could direct to a web page which encourages people to go to the users' forum first (with links through) and only to report a bug when they are sure that th

Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/05/2014 Brennan Novak wrote: Here is a link explaining the current user experience flow which I experienced as a major pain point this morning trying to file my first OpenOffice bug report: https://brennannovak.com/notes/432 Thanks for this! How come you started from the SourceForge mirro

Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-15 Thread Brennan Novak
Hello OpenOffice Team, My name is Brennan. I am a user experience designer & engineer, I am currently building the FOSS crypto-webmail project Mailpile... perhaps you have heard of it :) Here is a link explaining the current user experience flow which I experienced as a major pain point this