Re: OpenOffice.ooOOOOOOoooOOOoooook EEEeek! eeek! oooOOOOOK!

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From: Ann Barcomb
Subject: Re: OpenOffice.ooOOOOOOoooOOOoooook EEEeek! eeek! oooOOOOOK!
Date: 14:32 on 18 May 2005
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.

I only use Word on one machine.  But I see the result of this inane
model whenever I receive a document from someone who had a bigger screen.
The outside outline retains my previous setting (usually partial screen),
but the document itself expands to whatever the other person wanted.
At least that is what I think is happening--otherwise the sizing is
truely random.

This quality always makes me want to shrink my documents to near 
invisibility before I send them.
There's stuff above here

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