Written by Primož Papič the 13 May 08 at 16:37.
Global category: Office.
Implemented
Now when you click on save button in Open Office it doesn't becomes "unclickable" (for lack of the better word).
This should be repaired, because I think that other distros have that, and Windows have that.
That was one of main reason that I went from word to open office.
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Why is this good idea to do:
Because when you quit, you don't to double check if you saved the last version of document. Because this is clearly show by the button save, because you can't click on it again.
Written by animaniac the 2 Jul 08 at 22:00.
Global category: Office.
Implemented
Having installed a darker theme, i find the fact that OpenOffice themes the work area irritating, i want to have my entry/selection boxes themed darker, it complements the theme, but the area where one works with the layout of a document should not be affected.
The whole idea of modern word processing, ever since xerox (1981?) invented it is that the document is meant to look the same on the screen as it will be when it is printed, letting the theme effect the document breaks the concept.
This also effects print preview, one needs to export the document as PDF to see what it will look like printed.
GIMP and Inkscape are not effected. nor any other app where i might not want this happening, only oo.
I really like Evince, yet I still use acrobat reader because Evince lacks the option to replace documents color. I use this option very often to force a black background with white text, because this is much better for my eyes (I'm very sensitive to light).
So, there should be an option added to Evince to use a custom color scheme which can use any color schame the user defines.
I would like to see the option for Recent Documents to appear on the start up splash screen.
When starting Open Office, the splash screen give options for Text Document, Spreadsheet, Open a new document etc. I find more times than not, I am having to go up to the menu to select recent document to open the file I have recently been working on.
Being able to access straight from the splash screen would be useful.
Written by Blueface the 14 Mar 08 at 20:45.
Global category: Office.
Implemented
Xubuntu is supposed to be lightweight and in my opinion OpenOffice.org Writer isn't lightweight.
I don't think we should include it in the default install since Xubuntu already has AbiWord which is a much better option for Xubuntu. But I think that we should still leave OpenOffice.org on the CD in case anyone would want to install it.
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