Issue 61660 - ux-ctest: Word Completion in Writer is often executed wihtout intension due to conflicting shortcut
Summary: ux-ctest: Word Completion in Writer is often executed wihtout intension due t...
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2006-02-06 12:16 UTC by frank.loehmann
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
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Description frank.loehmann 2006-02-06 12:16:56 UTC 
Users who do not look at the display ignore automatic suggestions. When pressing
enter, the suggestion is accepted instead of adding a paragraph break. 
Recommendation: Choose a less conflicting key for auto-completion (e.g. the Tab
key). Turn this feature off by default.

Keyword: ux-ctest
Comment 1 frank.loehmann 2006-07-13 16:12:46 UTC 
set target to OOo 2.x
Comment 2 mbayer 2007-07-12 17:15:03 UTC 
My negative votes for these suggestions.

Firstly: Word Completion is often experienced as a particular usefully feature
and advantage over MSO, even though MSO has this feature, too. But in MSO it's
switched off by default, in OOo it's switched on.

It's easier to switch off a feature that annoys you (personally), than switching
on a feature from that you don't know it even exists.

Thus, please leave it switched on by default.

Secondly: Using the "enter" key for "entering" (accepting) a suggested word is
far more "intuitive", in terms of self-descriptiveness (for explanations please
refer to Part 10 of ISO 9241 "Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual
display terminals").

The basic function of the "enter" key is (as it name shows) to complete a
user-machine dialogue, as clicking on an OK button, not to insert a new line -
that is "return", as on mechanical typewriters.

Thus, please leave the default key as it is.

Conclusion: I don't see anybody bringing forward arguments for changing the
defaults. On the other hand, any other desired behavior can be configured easily
via the GUI. So I don't see any need to change the defaults here.
Comment 3 frank.loehmann 2007-09-06 09:50:19 UTC 
Sounds linke a candidate for an action (feedback) button in the text area like
for other auto functions. Then user can decide to turn of or configure function.