Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | delete key behavior inconsistent with Excel | ||
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Product: | Calc | Reporter: | weirdboy <weirdboy> |
Component: | editing | Assignee: | spreadsheet <spreadsheet> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | issues@sc <issues> |
Severity: | Trivial | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues |
Version: | OOo 2.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Windows XP | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
Developer Difficulty: | --- |
Description
weirdboy
2006-03-04 19:32:26 UTC
JA: I would like to vote against this request. The behavior in Calc has the advantage to have two different functions to delete content of a selected cell range. Using the delete key you can define what type of content you would like to delete (eg. formatting). Since 1995 no user complained about this difference. JA: Changing issue type to enhancement JA: changin platform to All Please do not dismiss this as a feature. Having two different functions is not an advantage, it is a usability problem. Nearly 100% of the users who are considering using openoffice already have experience with Excel, and this behavior is totally inconsistent with their previous experience. I am not the only person to complain about it since 1995. See "answer #312" in the openoffice.org knowledgebase: http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au/?page=ask&submit_selected=1&thoughtId=312 At the very least, there should be an option in preferences to provide consistent look-and-feel. Duplicate of Issue 9392. JA, just so you know there has been many complaints about this as a severe usability issue since November 19, 2002. Novell's version in Suse even has the keys swapped by default. There is already a patch to swap the keys available, but it is not the proper solution since Openoffice.org users that do not use Excel still want the default to be the backspace key. The people that are converting from Excel or using both simultaneously obviously do not want to spend 24 hours compiling OpenOffice.org just to get a proper key binding option. The proper solution is to have an option to swap the keys in the dialog window that pops up or to set the behavior in the options. The code for the options and dialog windows is a bit harder to understand than just swapping the 2 keys like Novell did. I would have changed it already if I had the skill to write a proper patch that could get put in the upstream code base. Please dont vote against an option (not a default) the rest of us have been asking about for the last 3.5 years. Weirdboy, marking this resolved as a duplicate, but please add to the votes on Issue 9392. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 9392 *** and closed |