I confess that I don't understand this type of "improvement" in software
development. It's sort of like when MS decided that users couldn’t
understand the Windows menu structure that had been used for two decades and
gave us the ribbon.
The LO/OO method of organizing templates has been around for...what, ten ...
fifteen years now? If I'm not mistaken it goes all the way back to
StarOffice. Long time users have grown accustomed to it. So, what would
prompt someone to think it needs fixing? Was there a survey showing that a
ton of new people would suddenly start using LO if it would only change its
"goofy" way of organizing templates?
I know people are always resistant to change; it took me a couple years to
abandon DOS in favor of Windows. And, over time, I may get to like the new
template menu placement (if I ever reinstall LO 4 after going back to
3.6.6).
But to change a working menu structure just because we can? I just don't get
it.
Virgil
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Lloyd
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2013 12:49 AM
To: Thomas Blasejewicz
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] template menu
Hi Thomas,
I have to admit this confused me also. I don't know whether you can
simply "organize" anymore. From the manual:
To begin, choose *File > **New > **Templates***from the Menu bar to
openthe Template Manager dialog.
http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/writer-guide/published-lo-4.0/wg4-0-ch10-templates/view
At this point you can add, modify, delete and move!
Cheers
On 07/04/2013 02:38 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
Good afternoon
The last few days I upgraded from 3.6 something to 4.0.4.
And this morning I noticed the "template menu" is gone.
One of my computers has still 3.6 on it and there it is under Files ->
Templates.
That's also where the extension items for the extension "template
changer" appeared.
After along search I found, that the template changer can now only be
found in an unmarked grave
= empty white space with a black triangle at its right margin BELOW File
-> Exit.
But so far I was not able to find anything like Templates -> Organize
anywhere.
Where is this now???
Or has the software advanced so far, that creating, deleting, organizing
templates etc. is now a thing of the past?
Thank you.
Thomas
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