User Experience/ToDo/Useless GUI Elements
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Contents
Intro
The Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the OpenOffice applications is sometimes crowded with completely useless elements. This site tries to identify such useless elements.
Useless GUI Elements
- application specific
- dialogs
Writer
Calc
Font Drop-Down List
I do NOT remember ever to have used the font Drop-down List in the spreadsheet application. Its use is unusual in a professional setting.
Impress
Draw
Other
Dialogs
Controls
Font List Enhancement
The drop-down font list becomes very impractical if one has many fonts installed.
Lessons learned from Competitor Products:
- Adobe Type Manager: allow user to create a new category Frequently Used
Display in the drop-down list the following categories separately:
- existing category: last used fonts
- frequently used fonts, user-selected (new category)
- all existing fonts, already in use (new category)
