It is good to see that there are more LibO users who don't understand the improvements concerning templates from 3.6 to 4.0. Since a few weeks I try to understand it and still struggle. The only advantage is that I immediately can see thumbnails and this is combined with the disadvantage that the full name of the template is not visible.
I hope that someone is brave enough and rethinks the advantages of the old template manager (up to 3.6) and creates a real good one even if this one looks and functions more like the one until 3.6 Reinhold . On 04.07.2013 21:23, Virgil Arrington wrote: > 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 >> > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
