On Monday 07 July 2003 2:07 am, Peter Evans wrote: <snip>
What annoys me much more than slowth is the combination of two major irritations:
(1) OOo Writer successfully imitates MS Word (and WordPerfect and Lotus Word too, I suppose), hiding controls where I can't easily get at them. (Well, I believe that I can open the ZIP files, edit the XML contents, rezip, and rename -- but this seems unnecessarily tiresome.) So, just to take one example, how can I hide a chunk of text? With good old XyWrite, I'd flip into command mode and insert "<
>" at the end; with OOo (unless I misunderstand) I create a frame, cut the text, paste the text into the frame, and then minimize the size of the frame. Urgh.
Far easier to use the 'hidden paragraph' field, but it's still a bit clunky. Position your cursor in a paragraph, Insert->Fields->Other, then select the Functions tab. Select 'Hidden Paragraph' type, and enter 1 into Condition. Click Insert and close. You can then hide and display this text using the View->Hidden Paragraphs toggle.
(2) The console I mean konsole here looks bad. File listings with mc (Midnight Commander) have wobbly columns. If I use and close the red menu in mined (an editor), bits of it remain splattered over my black text. As I page through a long text file, bits and pieces of previous pages mingle with the page I'm trying to view.
I had this problem until I changed the font. In Konsole, Settings->Font->Custom. Works fine for me with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Don't forget to click on Settings->Save Settings to make the change permanent.
I've no idea what's to blame. I'm very aware that I'm just another dipshit Joe User and shouldn't whinge and should instead work out what the problem is and try fixing the source appropriately. But the sad fact is that I'm not a programmer. Anyway, I wonder if Linux/GNU/KDE/SuSE is what I'm looking for: the GUI stuff seems OK if you like to be in an "Office" cocoon (I don't), while using programs such as mined in the konsole is, frankly, a nightmare after using TSE Pro in Take Command/32 in Win2k. True, neither TSE Pro nor TC is free (let alone GPL'd), but if 100 Euros could buy me a konsole upgrade and a (sadly non-existent) TSE Pro for Linux, I'd leap at the chance.
Of course, if anyone can (perhaps in a separate thread) give any advice for the konsole display problems, I'd be delighted.
HTH, Jason