Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | Persistent settings are extremely confusing and non intuitive | ||
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Product: | General | Reporter: | eruditehermit <rohitpid> |
Component: | ui | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> |
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | Trivial | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues, mantas, rb.henschel |
Version: | OOo 3.0 | Keywords: | oooqa |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
Developer Difficulty: | --- |
Description
eruditehermit
2008-10-11 09:30:11 UTC
I would vote against such handling. Styles belong to a document and having some settings in one document should not effect other documents. But nevertheless this is a valid request and therefore I set it to "new". Maybe having persistent settings automatically would not be preferred by all, but at the very least, there should be an option in every menu to save current settings as default if the user wants to do so. This is a much better way of handling the settings than the current method of having the user create templates and make them the default template. The template method of persistent settings needs to be changed to improve usability for new users because it is confusing and there are a lot of non obvious steps required to make settings persist across documents and sessions. TM->requirements: Please have a look this is a really good idea. as a new user I have wanted to change default settings and not known how. it would make it a lot more user friendly if there was a way to save settings to make a new default or to return to old default on each options window. |