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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#43832: No way to set default page to open up by default
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-06-13 14:57:44
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> Another example is the "close the last document" thing : the user is \
> working on many documents, say in KWord. At some point, when the copy \
> paste is finished, he begin to close all the windows. But, if he wants to \
> create another doc, he has to create it BEFORE closing all previous \
> opened document if he doesn't want to "suffer" the loading time for \
> KWord, as Kword will exit when final document is closed. It is \
>                 contra-intuitive as the user want to :
> 	- stop working on the current documents
> 	- then create a new document to work on
> But he has to :
> 	- create an empyt new document
> 	- stop working on the current documents by closing them
> 	- start working on his new doc.

Wrong. KOffice provides this. Try "File/Close".

> I have still another example : when a user want to edit the header or the \
> footer, he has to go to View>footer or View>header, though in Word, since \
> many years, simply double clicking in the supposed area is sufficient. I \
> think this can be solved easily... as normal user don't bother of this, \
> but advanced user has to do it quite often... and there is no option to \
> automatically display header or footer... 
> You see, there are lots of usability problems like these in KOffice

Feel free to report usability bugs at http://bugs.kde.org, when you have a \
precise suggestion on how it can be fixed (as with this case: always \
showing the header/footer frames - it's basically about changing the \
default, no?). We developers don't necessarily see those problems...

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
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