Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 18/10/2011 17:48, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: > > Can I suggest that you either file a bug report or dust your > > programming books off and fix it yourself? > > > > > But it's been like this for years and I think I may well have filed a > bug years ago, but it's obviously not even been on Canonicals radar > at all...
Well, no. If there's but on abandoned bug report I can quite understand the limited resources instead being directed at bugs that're affecting a large number of users, or even just particularly useful users > To me it's the one thing that will stop people using Ubuntu and > preferring Windows *everything* appears to be "the one thing" that keeps people away from Ubuntu right now. You're the only person I've seen to have come across this, and I can present a list of several other reasons people stick with Windows if you like. > - MS Office does this automatically and so does the version of LO > that you can get from the LO website So at least there's an easy workaround. I'm afraid that, too, will lower the priority of fixing the bug itself. > but if the software is supplied as part of the install shouldn't > people expect ALL the functions to be there? Why do they miss one of > the most important out? I don't know. That's the sort of thing you'd find out from the bug tracker. > Unfortunately I am not a programmer.... It's not hard to find one. -- Avi -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
