Re: Some user interface issues
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny <[email protected]>
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Hi René, > 1. Nearly all modern MDI (multiple document interface) applications > nowadays provide a small X button below the bigger X for closing the > whole application that closes the current MDI window. In Base you > have to use the menu and point to File => close window which is not > really intuitive Base here is consistent with the rest of OOo. Personally, I like MDI better than SDI, but any change here will only happen (if at all) in OOo as a whole. > 2. To define the primary key in a table the only way to do this is > using the context menu. Context menus are fine, but should never be > the only way to accomplish a task, in my opinion. It shouldn't be a > great effort to put a button in the toolbar to do the same. Right. I took this occasion to finally submit an issue for this long-standing usability annoyance: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=55184 > 3. An absolute annoyance in Access is the reformatting and changing > of SQL-code you are typing, after changing to the design view (this > happens by accident sometimes). Now Base does absolutely the same and > partly even worse. I'm aware that Base is designed for novice users > and those seldom deal with the SQL view. Despite that, I believe that > systems can be designed for both novice and expert users. I see no > reason for users familiar with SQL to surrender a comfortable GUI > (e.g. for table design) just because otherwise they also buy > interference with their SQL code. Also agreed. The query design (as well as for instance the table design) is pretty old-fashioned in this and may other respects, and I'd love to fix those quirks. Unfortunately, I honestly don't believe too strong that something will change there in the near future, since there are much more important things to do with quite limited resources. > It's sure to late to consider these notes for OO 2.0, but maybe there > is soon a 2.0.1 that can provide some enhancements there. Honestly: Quite improbable - .0.x versions are usually only for the most important bug fixes (crashes, data losses, and so on). Thanks & Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [email protected] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -