Re: Openoffice disadvantages?

In article <490b9d2b$0$4026$5402220f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Anic297 <here@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steve Hix a écrit:
Also, it is not appearance-compliant (you
look for menus in the wrong place, for example)... etc...
Frankly, I see that as a feature, or at worst as neutral.
Can you explain your opinion, please?

While the Open Office 3.0 on Mac UI is cluttered, at least it ends up
looking a little more like a Mac application than a badly-ported Windows
application. (Speaking of clutter, the band of function buttons across
the top of, say, a text document, takes up screen space all the time,
which is annoying. I haven't looked to see if I can turn it off yet.)

Well, AppleWorks did also include at least 2 floating windows of that
kind. I also remember how it was taking extra space.

Floating windows aren't quite as bad as a bunch of buttons that can't be
closed or moved off to the side.

But AppleWorks isn't nice to use these days (single undo, mouse wheel
not supported, etc.). The sad part is that I don't know of a good
replacement for bitmap drawing.

And it doesn't take over your entire display, unlike some recent
versions of Word.

Hmmm... I have stopped using Word as soon as I left my "high school"
(well, a school where we learn computers during 3 or 4 years).

The only time that I use it is to do some tech support for my wife,
who's collaborating on a book, and the main collaborator uses Word 2008
exclusively.

No ribbon is not a bad thing.
You may already know, I'm not a native English speaker ;-)
Perhaps it's an English expression?

If I remember correctly, one of the new-ish user interface components
used in Word on Windows is something called the "ribbon".

Instead of placing various functions under various menu items, it takes
up real estate on the screen all the time, tabs and all. I suppose it's
a way to deal with an application that's collected too many functions
altogether to deal with like most other applications.

Ah, you're speaking about that ugly "toolbar" which replaces entirely
the menus?! I agree!

Yep.

More than ever, I can't understand their changes: they have decided to
remove menus (imagine: the next step for, say, Office 2010 will be to
remove the use of the keyboard and any windows ;-) ).
Well, computers have basis, like a menubar (wherever it is located),
disks, folders and files, and so on... They have broken a major component.
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