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I really hope we get OO.org 3 in the final version!

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Without ODF support Tracker lacks a big part of its usefulness. Neither my text documents nor my spreadsheets are indexed at the moment. If I understand the forum posting correctly, there once was a packet named O3read which did the translation into plain text for Tracker, but this package is not included in the repositories any longer.

How can the ODF support become implemented into Tracker again?


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I tried Ganttproject, Planner and OpenWork bench. They are not as easy to use (a waste of time) as MS project.

I think the OpenOffice.org project is the best challenger. Imagine interactions with other components and the next PIM component.
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/programme/wednesday_186.pdf


Management project is a real part of office software (MS project is a part of MS Office...)

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A similar thing should be done with Open Office extensions - so that installing an extension with the Open Office package manager integrates well with Ubuntu.

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It is inconvenient to actually have to start evolution and search through my mess of a calender when the event is already in my panel calendar.

I think it would be simple, intuitive, and convenient to have access to event details straight from the gnome panel calendar.

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Unfortunately, the Fullscreen button, being a toolbar, resides in a large-enough-to-be-distracting floating box. You can drag it to a different place so it doesn't obscure the document, but it's still there - and whether you consciously realise it or not, reducing your attention span on the document. (An absolute nightmare for revision, I can tell you!)

I did however notice a small square at the bottom right hand corner of the screen, between the horizontal and vertical scrollbars, which is currently unused. This would be a good alternative place to put the fullscreen button because:
-it doesn't distract your attention from the document as it is completely in line with the scrollbars,
-it doesn't obscure the document in any way,
-it doesn't increase the size of the scrollbars and "clutter" at the side of the screen (which turning the Fullscreen button into a toolbar will do),
-it's very easily accessible as it's a corner target (either Fitt's Law or something similar say that it is much easier to hit a button that's in a corner than anywhere else).

Even though it would be much smaller than the current button, the very fact it's in a corner makes it easier for the user to hit.

The only disadvantage I can see is that because it's not huge like the current one, a new user won't find it so easily. So I propose that the default behaviour is to keep the big floating fullscreen button, with the option to change to the discreet corner button contained in the OO Writer Options menu.

If you have a better idea as to how to integrate this feature, or you think the new user is smart enough to find the "discreet" button right from the off, please say below.

It is true that this is mostly catered for by the keyboard shortcut. However it is also true that it's a rather illogical and inconsistent shortcut (while Writer uses Ctrl + Shift + J, almost everything else uses F11 - I still can't work out why OpenOffice went off on this random tangent), and there's also situations where the user has no keyboard, yet won't want the huge button. Touchscreens and wireless presenter mice being just two situations.

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Uncertainties in numbers are recognised in graphs (error bars), I think they should be available to any quantity in the application.

It would also be useful if the application could take its own inaccuracies into account by using uncertainties, for example rounding errors could be added on to existing uncertainties.

This would be a killer feature for a spreadsheet for me and many people I know, since that is all I use them for.

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As many persons I know they have more tha n on occupation an fix times they want to spent with their 1-3 jobs. In a claendar It would be nice to be able to set in colours the time I plan to have regularly in 2-3 different jobs/projects, ... . Would be very helpful.

At least. I use ubuntu now for 2-3 weeks only. I like the system, eve, if its hard to understand sometimes. As I did not make my printer work yet. There are discriptions how, but my computing knowledge is not developed far enough to understand and I hope to learn much here, so please be patient.

Klaus

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Okay, what this idea isn't about, but what I'd like to see addressed *rant*:
-Repeating events from GoogleCalendar integration actually showing up on the calendar.
-The ability for me to discover how to receive an alarm.
-Events not disappearing entirely when I click on the clock/calendar applet on the panel.

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The first thing that i do when using openoffice is to change icons size, following this steps:
tools -> options -> openoffice.org -> view

small icons size:
http://bildr.no/view/306761

large icons size:
http://bildr.no/view/306762

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http://www.xmind.net

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I think that, if ubuntu is aimed at simplicity it should include an office system that is felxible but simple to use and to creat great work with (for an example, compare iLife programs, to other programs in their respective areas: they achieve good results, while remaining simpler and more beautifull)

Maybe it is just me, but i feel that open office is one of the biggest problems with ubuntu and open source, and i would really like to see that fixed.

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