Saturday, April 8, 2017

What we need is subtlety in our UX, and lots of it!

Consider how, apparently, Libre Office Writer (I know, I know: "You are using Libre Office? Well, there's your problem!" as Click & Clack would say) is set up to always "helpfully" underline internet looking text (hyperlinks, email addresses) as well as set the font color to blue. Which I hate and don't want, ever. Even if it doesn't show up when printed out. I don't want it happening anywhere in my use of the damnable program.

Or, uh, when in Draw I am trying to right-click on some selected text to get a chance to set the font, which I just did a minute ago this way, and now instead of the right-click menu I saw before I am getting some other one that has spelling correction suggestions that are wrong, irrelevant, broken, and dumb since the text is a hyperlink & email address... yay.

So it is not helping. It is not context-sensitive magic nirvana. It is annoying heck!

And then the things that I do want are missing. Like in other drawing apps when I copy then paste then move, then paste again, the 2nd paste is moved 2x as far as the 1st one was, so I can simply keep on pasting to make a series of things, all equally spaced, very easily. Which turns out to mostly be what I want, go figure.

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