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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: [users] Re: if adding things to OOo was dead simple
From:       "G. Roderick Singleton" <grsingleton () openoffice ! org>
Date:       2004-04-17 19:21:02
Message-ID: 1082229661.12683.67.camel () gerrypc ! pathtech ! org
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On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 14:53, blabla wrote:
> G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 14:21, blabla wrote:
> > 
> >>CPH wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Basically a bug is a feature which does not work as it is supposed to work. 
> >>>A feature is a piece of complete functionality available to you in 
> >>>OpenOffice.org e.g. printing to PDF, advanced word count, etc.
> >>>
> >>
> >>Thanks, so a question mark in an input window to provide context help 
> >>would be something new and therefore a functionality and not a bug. But 
> >>is it an issue?
> >>
> >>I am not trying to be akward - honest! - but the OOo website is a closed 
> >>book to me...
> >>
> >>Do you know who to contact regarding this new functionality? I'd love to 
> >>help, too.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Why? Because MS has it?  Why not simply turn on Extended tips in Help
> > and get the same effect by hovering your cursor.
> 
> Dear G. Roderick Singleton,
> 
> how I managed to miss this excellent feature I don't know - but then I 
> don't know a lot things :-)
> 
> I reckon it would be a good idea to have this feature turned on 
> automatically so that people who have just installed OOo and start 
> working with it straight away don't make the same mistake as me.
> 
> Now is that a bug, an issue or... ;-)
> 
> Thanks a lot!

For the record, enter Help in Help-Contents-Index-Search terms and you
will find explanations for this and other features.  While Help is still
a work in progress, what is there is quite good and I encourage users to
at least have a look.

BTW, I think the current defaults are fine. Not to chatty and not too
terse. However if you think it worthwhile file an enhancement issue.
-- 
G. Roderick Singleton <grsingleton@openoffice.org>


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