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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Features that KWord should have
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-09-12 12:10:41
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:25:38PM +1000, George Petri wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> For the first time ever, I typed up an assignment *completely* in KWord in 
> Linux (no MS code for once :)).  I have never used a frames-based editor
> before but the interface of KWord was so good that it was really easy to use.
> 
> But there are some features that I really want to see.  They are really small,
> trivial changes that I think should be made:
> 
> 1. There should be shortcut keys for Bold, Italic, Underline and Strikethru
> (CTRL+B, CTRL+I, CTRL+U, CTRL+S perhaps).  MS Word has this and it
> works fine.  I don't want to take my hands off the keyboard just to make
> my text bold.

Those should work fine in KOffice-1.1...
(Ctrl+S is for saving though)

> 2. The ASCII Export filter should have an option like "MS-DOS/Windows Text 
> Output" which will make the line terminators \r\n instead of linux's \n.
I think Nicolas takes care of this filter...

> 3. There is no point in having an "Edit Frames" and "Edit Text" mode.  It 
> should not be difficult to program in the ability to resize frames without
> switching to a different mode.  Also, let the user move a frame by 
> right-clicking to pop up a menu and then click "Move: OR middle-button-drag
> OR hold down a button for 1 second and then drag -- or preferably, all of
> the above :)

You are definitely not using KWord-1.1. There are no such modes anymore.
Update.

> 4. Why have inline images when images in frames are so much better?  Every
> time an image is inserted, just automatically put it in a frame.  I argue that
> inline images have NO advantages over ones in frames.

They are gone too.

> 5. If you select some text and click on the Bold icon, it turns bold.
> Perhaps there should be "Capitalise", "Uncapitalise" and "Invert Case"
> buttons for the same reason (if you accidently typed a document with
> CAPSLOCK on -- or got one from a colleague).

This is there too.

> I would really appreciate it if the KWord project would embrace these features
> because I think that they would significantly increase usability.
> 
> What do you think?

That you should update.... :)

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