User Experience/Improving OOo Default Settings
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Issues with current OOo Default Settings
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Rotation Mode, Guides when Moving on | Impress | 'Rotation Mode after Clicking Object' & 'Guides When Moving' are two feature options which are switched off by default => they should be switched on by default (more info: Grid Handling). | Clu |
bullet point lists | Impress | Bad standard defaults of bullet point lists. If one creates a text frame in Impress and clicks on the button "numbering and bullet points" (Nummerierung und Aufzählungszeichen), the newly created bullet point list has terrible standard defaults:
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default colour of drawing objects | Draw/Impress | Issue 93507 | Name |
'Right page' should be next style to 'Left page' | Writer | Issue 15498 | Name |
Make manual page break in Writer better visiable | Writer | for example use 'light blue' and a thicker line. Issue 33518 and duplicates Issue 65150 , Issue 82353 , Issue 96963 , Issue 22646 | Name |
Default line too thick | Chart | especially XY-Charts need hairline lines.Issue 98803 | Name |
Idea | Draw | Include toolboxes circles, rectangles, text instead of single symbol in drawing toolbar. Reasoning: (1) The 'circles and ovals' and the 'text' toolbox is not accessible via View - Toolbars in Draw. So currently the only way to access arcs and legends is to customize the drawing toolbar. (2) Draw is used for technical constructions and there those objects are often used, in contrast to Writer or Impress, where drawing objects are used for illustrations in most cases. (3) Using the toolboxes needs no more space than single objects and give you a quick access too, because the last used object remains above for single click. | Regina |
Add Math formula icon to standard bar | All | Math objects are often used in technical documents. You need the way Insert - Object - Formula to insert one. That is too long. For example consider writing a math text for school, which has about twenty formulas per page usually. | Regina |
Distance in numbering styles larger | Writer | Make the distance from number to text in numbering styles larger, so that 10. text is still in line. | Regina |
Add a gap in table of contents | Writer | Add a gap (tab or space) between number and text in table of contents in Writer. | Regina |
Use parallel perspective for 3D-scene | Draw | Description | Regina |
Set margins in style of Math formula objects to 0cm | Writer | Set margins in style of Math formula objects in Writer to 0cm. | Regina |
Add a spacing below for tables | Writer | Add a spacing below for tables in Writer | Regina |
Add a graphic style with setting "as character" | Writer | Add a graphic style with setting "as character" in Writer. | Regina |
Uncheck transparency warning | All | Uncheck transparency warning in Tools > Options | Regina |
change default color in form wizard | Database | the default background color of an default form document, created by the form wizard, is anything like orang -> this is a bad default and looks unprofessional => change it in anything common like 'light gray' | MSC |
switch off impress wizard | Impress | looks old fashioned, is redundant and annoying | WG |
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