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OpenOffice.org

Shortcuts

The shortcuts in OOo

• should be aligned to well-known shortcuts and behaviour
• should be consistent throughout all modules

I already wrote a proposal for the harmonization of shortcuts in respect to

• modifiers
• function keys
• character keys
• navigational keys

Format style and Format style catalog

Format style and Format style catalog

• should be consolidated into one compound dialog window
• should be unified throughout all modules (in terms of naming)
• all controls / functions need to be accessible with keys in order to allow quick changes
• should represent the format itself
• should emphasize the hierarchy from the beginning

A nice visual Format Style Dialog could look like this:

File:VisualFormatStyleDialogWindow.png

Reasonable default formats

The default formats are not obeying the "laws" of properly typeset texts.

Headings, for example are neither set bold nor are they set in italics / slanted. The only allowed emphasis is the modification of the text size—the exception proves the rule here. A reasonable default formats for headings—besides the fact that chapter numbering should be turned on by default and should have a nice basic numbering style—would be

• Heading1: 120 %
• Heading2: 110 %
• Heading3: 105 %
• Heading4: 100 %

Same applies for number formats. Percentages have to have a space between the number and the percent sign. The same applies to plus and minus. Reasonable formats would be:

#,##0.00;[red]- #,##0.00
0.0 %;[red]- 0.0 %

OpenOffice.org Calc

OpenOffice.org Draw / Impress

There is no real reason in having separate names for one powerful module—otherwise we could end up with OpenOffice.org Letter, OpenOffice.org Protocol etc.