From koffice-devel  Tue Jan 15 15:57:08 2002
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:57:08 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: Thoughts about the "Open document" dialog
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=101111043632472

On Tuesday 15 January 2002 16:51, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:45:57PM +0100, Werner Trobin wrote:
> > David Faure wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Sunday 13 January 2002 13:24, Werner Trobin wrote:
> > > > I assume the way MS does it is least surprising to users. On startup
> > > > it loads some default template (configurable?) and on File -> New it
> > > > pops up the template dialog.
> > > 
> > > Yes but we won't be able to do this until we provide a way to choose the
> > > default paper size. I plan to reorganize templates and to add UI for 
that one
> > > day.
> > 
> > The KControl module for Country & Language has an "Other" tab
> > (very good name :) now, which allows setting a default paper
> > size and preferred measure system. Isn't that enough for our
> > purpose?
> 
> I don't like to remove the initial dialog; most users who use Word have no 
idea
> how to make a document non-standard sized. We have a lot more options and 
possible
> templates the user can use/select/download. This would be lost to 95% of the
> users.
> I have a fax-template on my HD for instance which is easy to use and will 
one
> day be added to a "special" templates tab in KWord. I hate to see KWord used 
only
> for blank-default-templates.
> 
> Please keep the initial dialog.

Misunderstanding, this is about a command line option that starts it blank,
not about doing it by default !

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