[K12OSN] OpenOffice Listens to the Users I guess

[Shawn Maggard]

You gotta love the OpenOffice :D Beats the leading "competitor" hands down..
if you can call it a competitor..

On 4/1/07, Graham <yorick at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
> On Friday 30 March 2007 11:46, Huck wrote:
> > This is actually from a Slashdot comment I received after complaining
> > that OO doesn't allow audio clips to span more than 1 slide in a
> > presentation...You too can get your voice heard!  I love this FOSS stuff
> ;)
> >
> > 1-Create an account
> > http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/Join [openoffice.org] [openoffice.org
> ]
> >
> > 2-Login and do a search on your bug/pet peeves
> >
> > 3-Vote for this bug if it matches your problem. (At this time it has 203
> > votes!)
> > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=24 969 [openoffice.org]
> >
>
> Yep do all as above.  However on this particular issue don't expect
> lightning
> reaction.
>
> Reason being that this is a _feature_ in OOo of something that is a _bug_
> in
> PowerPoint.  There is nothing worse in Powerpoint than having to wait till
> a
> sound file finishes before you can change slides. PITA!
> In Impress, if I want a sound file to run over several slides then I
> simply
> change the "slides"  to transitions on a single slide.  It simply means
> that
> all the slides have to share a background.
>
> However, as Huck points out, voting does affect the way developers look at
> individual issues.  Proof of this is in one particular issue that became a
> pet of mine:  Getting stylist to remember which type of styles you had
> selected when you last edited a document.
> (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4854) I asked people on
> OOoforum to vote and that enhancement will now be in 2.3
>
> Oh and as an aside, if you didn't know already, OpenOffice.org 2.2 was
> released yesterday.
> version count went:
> 2.0
> 2.0.1
> 2.0.2
> 2.0.3
> 2.0.4
> 2.1
> 2.2
>
> So how old is your version :)
>
>
> Cheers
> GL
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