User Experience/Improving OOo Default Settings

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Issues with current OOo Default Settings

Idea	Application	Description	Name
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
Change Handle Size	Draw/Impress	The current handle size was defined years ago - with displays offering less density than today. I propose to change the default handle size to "large". This option can be found in the toolbar "Options" (more info: Grid Handling).	ChristophNoack
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: (1) Almost no space between the bullet point and the text. (2) No ident for the second line of text under a bullet point. The second line appears left-justified directly under the bullet point. Instead, there should be a ident of the second line. It should begin exactly there where the first letter in the first line starts.	Gerald
default colour of drawing objects	Draw/Impress	Issue 93507	Gerald
'Right page' should be next style to 'Left page'	Writer	Issue 15498	Name
Ugly style sheets for headings in Writer	Writer	I used Writer for several articles, publications, flyers and in all of them the standard headings look ugly and outdated. Any designer would not choose these style sheets for Heading 1-10. Furthermore, in this regard the competition has made large steps forward during the last release cycles.	Gerald
'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. The picture shows the ugly default settings. Notice the missing space between number and heading text.	Regina
Use parallel perspective for 3D-scene	Draw	3D-scenes in Draw are to illustrate constructions. Often several 3D-objects are combined in one scene. Working with several objects is faulty if perspective is on. So the first step when working with 3D-objects is to switch to parallel projection. It is "faulty" because it is unhandy to arrange or rotate objects inside a scene when in central perspective and because of Issue 67847 .	Regina
Set margins in style of Math formula objects to 0cm	Writer	Set margins in style of Math formula objects in Writer to 0cm. Issue 22136	Regina
Add a spacing below for tables	Writer	Add a spacing below for tables in Writer. In normal text flow the style text body is used, which gives good distance between two paragraphs. It has a spacing above of 0cm and a spacing below of 0.21cm. But after a table the text nearly touches the border of the table, because the table has spacing 0cm. And if you do not use borders the spacing is to small too, because the style Table contents has below spacing 0cm too.	Regina
Uncheck transparency warning	All	Uncheck transparency warning in Tools > Options. Modern PCs are fast enough to calculate transparency. So most oft the users no longer need this warning.	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
Default Clipboard Format for vector graphics	All except Draw	If someone paste a vector graphic into a document, he normally doesn't intend to edit it there, but most probably he needs to resize it. Unfortunately scaling of embedded Draw graphics doesn't work, because text will not scaled proper. Until this work, the user must use Paste Special->As GDI-Metafile. I think GDI-Metafile should be the default here.	Jörg
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