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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Features that KWord should have
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2001-09-14 5:59:41
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:31:09PM -0600, Richard Garand wrote:
> On September 12, 2001 04:17 pm, Marc wrote:
> > Hmmm - maybe an 'option' that can  be turned off by default?
> >
> > Even if not this, then at least an easy way to change bullet styles and
> > renumbering.  (The only way I've found so far is through the paragraph
> > dialog)
> Hmmm... time to go out on a tangent here: I think it would be extremely cool 
> if Koffice could be made to remember preferences. For example, if the users 
> always starts a bulleted list with 3 dashes and then makes it use a certain 
> style of bullets, it could be done automatically. If after a while they start 
> to cancel this all the time (it should be undoable with the undo button, just 
> as if the user had done it - I just thought of that but it would be a major 
> advance, because auto-formatting is too hard to undo in Word), then Koffice 
> would learn that and stop trying it. The idea is that instead of forcing the 
> users to go through the options to configure it, it could learn what they do 
> and don't do, and enforce their style.

All cool features that have the word automatic in it scare me, it is convenience
to you, but not to others. We have an auto correct dialog where things can be
turned on and off, auto-something features belong in there.

But please think twice about how a feature can be done intuitive before asking
the computer to do it for you in an automatic way. Simply put; the computer can't
decide for you what to do!

If for example you press the bullets-icon then you have your bullet list, simple.
Only that there is no icon ATM... :)

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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