Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 59071
DE: Inconsistent menues in different parts of OOs 2
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:32:46 UTC
This concernes the German translation of the UI. I don't know, whether it is also an issue in other languages (it might very well be). One of the major advantages that OOo has (or better: had) above MS Office was the strict compatibility of the user interface of the different parts as writer, calc etc. Now in version 2 this has been violated, a real drawback. What generally was "[F]ormat -> [S]eite" (format - page) is now "[F]ormat -> [S] eite" in Calc, but "[F]ormat -> Seiteneinste[l]lungen" in Writer. (There are others, e.g.: "[S]tandardformatierung" in Writer, "Standard[f] ormatierung" in Calc) All these menu things are done automatically, without thinking after a while of use. But if the user always has to reflect - ah, I'm in Writer, remember it's [l], not [s] and so on - this automatism is broken. I consider this a severe design flaw, that has to be fixed. By the way, many menues contain the same shortcut character more than once.
... even worse: it's now [F]ormat -> Se[i]te in Calc, not [S]eite.
TM->requirements: please have a look, thanks !
confirming this one. This is a missing information in the specs (e.g. most of the format menue entries have no german string assigned, only the comment"new mnemonic"). This led to a lot of inconstinceies in the user interface. we are going to start a review of the german UI .. but this will take some time.