Issue 31190 - Simplify Memory Options
Summary: Simplify Memory Options
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 680m45
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial with 7 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO PleaseHelp
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Reported: 2004-07-07 14:49 UTC by ralphie
Modified: 2022-11-19 10:43 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description ralphie 2004-07-07 14:49:02 UTC
Lifted from dev@ui

Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->Memory->Grapics cache
Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->Memory->Cache for inserted objects
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Is IMHO plainly not suited to be presented to end-users in this
form. To make matters worse, the online help is not helpful at
all, basically just repeating the dialog labelling. To me this
strongly suggests that the documenter had no idea either what that
means (understandably!).

Ideally I think this just should be set to some sane default and
forgotten. If that is not possible, I think *one* slider might
be the best situation, supplying somensible "linear combination"
of the more detailled settings.


     |-------------------|^|------------|
less memory                       faster display
consumption                       of images

also a "Details" button might be a further possibility if there
is *really* a need for this (I don't think so).

The online help should explain what this means and what
sensible settings for e.g. a low-end machine (PII 300, 128MB RAM) and
a high-end machine are.

Note that this dialog alone is frequently brought up as an example of 
OpenOffice's lack of usability, see e.g.
http://www.kirkmcpike.com/column/page3.html
so this is actually a marketing problem too, IMHO.

(see also http://ui.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=481
where Oliver Specht says "I aggree here, too. A simple more/less memory
consumption setting should be sufficient.")

TIA
/ralph
Comment 1 stefan.baltzer 2004-07-12 13:04:41 UTC
SBA: Reassigned to MMP.
Comment 2 auberger 2004-09-15 23:28:49 UTC
*** Issue 31190 has been confirmed by votes. ***
Comment 3 watersrw 2004-10-07 12:12:41 UTC
This seems a trivial item to fix - just have a slider with a few math formulae
attached. Perhaps a 'advanced' command button for the daring! It is items like
this one - ease of use - that often put microsoft ahead...
Comment 4 matthias.mueller-prove 2005-01-04 13:34:30 UTC
best solution is to entirely remove this option and get rid of the UI clutter.
Comment 5 hgkamath 2007-03-23 00:43:05 UTC
Including herein for reference:
issue 75496
The suggestion given there is to manipulate memory option.