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On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:32:14AM -0600, Ann Barcomb wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005, David Cantrell wrote:
> >This hateful thing has found even more ways to suck. It doesn't
> >understand the -geometry argument. So because the last time I ran it
> >I was using a bigger screen, I now can't reach the bottom of the window.
> >This is truly hateful.
> Well, that's not just Open Office. I see it in Word at work, so I
> think it must be a design decision. Somewhere someone once thought
> that the display width and height were actual document qualities, as
> opposed to user preferences.
If it wants to do that by default I'd not object much. But every other
X app in the entire universe understands -geometry so that I can
override it when I want. OpenOffice.ooOOOOOOoooOOOoooook should do the
same.
Word comes from an environment which doesn't have such pleasing and
useful things as a working command line so can't really be compared.
--
David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age
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-- Dianne van Dulken,
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