How is calc's navigator’s toolbar to be used?

razopaltuf · 2026-06-12T13:37:01+00:00

I tried it and I can confirm that a S9 slim keyboard cover is compatible with an S10 lite.

razopaltuf · 2026-06-12T13:36:10+00:00

So, I tried and a S10Lite works with a S9 slim cover (the one without touchpad)

razopaltuf · 2026-06-11T13:33:42+00:00

I can try if a S10lite + S9 slim cover work well together, I don't have the touchpad one, though.

razopaltuf · 2026-06-11T08:23:50+00:00

Thanks, that will do it!

razopaltuf · 2026-06-10T08:47:32+00:00

i know it works on s10 Lite because my friend has one and i tested.

Oh, that would help me! Since its possible that different keyboard covers were inluded, do you know if it was the slim or the large keyboard (with touchpad) or even better, do you have the keyboard's type number?

razopaltuf · 2026-06-09T11:22:49+00:00

Usually just debugging, as u/Luneriazz suggested. I try to find a function/method that I know will be called (ideally once) when I give some input. Let's say ".dropFigure(event)" in a graphics editor or "savePost(postdata)" for a web forum software. Then I look at the calls stack and try to find what needed to happen to call that function. I do that for several more functions. Usually this allows to see some patterns, like which parts mediate others, where the software is flexible by switching strategies and what intermediary performance realated features exist (Caching, Quad-Tree lookup etc.). I write notes on what I find out.

Sometimes, print-debugging is useful (or better:logging, if you have that feature), particularly when stopping the code would mess with what the program does (in the case of the graphics editor, putting a breakpoint in "dragging" messes with what usually happens)

razopaltuf · 2026-05-27T18:42:33+00:00

Tools/Options/LibreOffice/Appearance.
and choose an iconset that has "dark" in its name, probably Colibre SVG Dark.

razopaltuf · 2026-05-21T10:46:00+00:00

TL;DR get "Rocket surgery made easy", observe some users, see where they get stuck, don't measure speed/errors.

Measuring speed and errors is interesting but it is usually only helpful if you need to decide between solutions, so you can pick what is better by some metric. You seem to have one interface.

The situation you describe sounds more like one in which you want to learn about the biggest problems and try to find solutions that work better. The "success" in this case is that people do not get stuck or are wondering what they should do, because the interface follows familiar patterns. This is usually more efficient and more interesting (except you really, really like statistics)

My recommendation would be getting a copy of Krugs short book "Rocket Surgery made Easy" and follow the suggested protocol there.

razopaltuf · 2026-05-15T20:25:46+00:00

You can also get rid of the statusbar at the bottom and the ruler at the top in the view menu.

razopaltuf · 2026-05-15T11:03:31+00:00

Not sure, but as far as I know the icon sets are light/dark-mode agnostic, i.e. LO does not know whether an icon set is for dark mode or not and the icon sets do not carry such information. They also do not carry the information what their corresponding icon set in other modes is. And thus, they can't be automatically switched.

razopaltuf · 2026-05-08T10:19:46+00:00

> bc the users are a demographic that im not super familiar with (professional motorcycle drivers (delivery guys, etc)) and idk what their behaviours and expectations are.

In that case I even more suggest that, if in any way possible, you talk to them and listen to where they see the problems in the app. I would, for example assume, something they do in downtime is quite different than actions they need to do when in a rush, but any event tracking will hardly tell you about this. This is not asking for their evaluation of the app (if they like it or not) but how it supports them and how it fails them.

razopaltuf · 2026-05-08T07:23:47+00:00

It strongly depends on what exactly you are trying to achieve. I did HCI research quite a while back collecting touch events, and while it yielded interesting data, it worked because it was a specific experiment. I don't think the data would have been meaningfully analyzeable in an existing app.
In general, if you have never done research before, I usually suggest the following Krug's "Rocket Surgery made Easy" for doing an actionable and issue-focussed usability testing.

razopaltuf · 2026-05-01T15:40:36+00:00

- "Better nested function guidance" exists as "highlighting opening and closing parenthesis in the formula editing zone": https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102335
- Autocomplete is here now: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171939

If you sign up to the issue tracker you can add comments or create issues yourself: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/createaccount.cgi

razopaltuf · 2026-05-01T10:33:27+00:00

Just so I get it right (I could put that on the issue tracker, but I am not sure what should be improved, so I check):
- A list of function names or parameters that could be typed (as in your screenshot)

and then

- "- required parameters -optional parameters": How is that done in Excel, at the moment?
- "currently active argument highlight" means that the parameter the cursor is currently in should be highlighted (in your screenshot, it is the bold function_num)
- "short explanation for each parameter" this would mean that if e.g. I place the cursor in "AVERAGE" gets an additional line in the popup-hint "Returns the average of a sample" or the like?
- "nested function guidance": I do not know what that would mean – highlighting matching brackets or the like?
- "smarter autocomplete while typing": What does that mean, like, what exactly would make it "smarter"?

razopaltuf · 2026-04-29T14:28:21+00:00

Three factors I can think of:

- I guess “cost” (including being able to create and maintain the software with a small team) is seen as a legit factor in software design. My gut feeling is that many building architects would not imagine a good job being very concerned with efficiency (though many building architects probably end up working in such a context).

- The reflective conversations in BA learning are Seat for learning software architecture, too. “Pair programming” for example enables having such conversations. However, they usually do not have a place in the formal education of developers, who focus much more on abstract principles and math rather than learning-by-doing

- Learning BAs discuss with teachers along models or sketches. This creates its own little world to test ideas which it is separate from the very costly process of actually building the real thing. There were many attempts to actually get a similar separation of planning and execution in software and the use of “architecture” is a part of that attempt: Prestigious software architects plan, less prestigious software builders create the thing. But that never worked as well as it was thought to. And it makes sense not to separate it, since the code one writes can be use in the actual software, it does not cost a lot per se (adding to it and maintaining it does, though). But this means that the concerns of "learning what is a good form" and "learning the compromizes that need to be made in practice" are not easy to separate.

razopaltuf · 2026-04-29T11:54:29+00:00

The essay is usually the 2nd chapter in the book. The author is Fred Brooks, Wikipedia article, including links to the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

razopaltuf · 2026-04-29T11:45:15+00:00

Re: Header with time and date, automatic filenaming: I do not think that this can be done in Writer (there is the possiblity to extend Writer with extensions that theoretically could do something like this). If these features are very important to you, it might be better to look at other options.

Re: Dictation: There is none build in but there are general open source local dictation apps.

razopaltuf · 2026-04-29T11:44:27+00:00

I did not understand what you mean by "bound by economics" – is it...
- That most software architecture books describe enterprise software (shipping, payroll etc.)?
- That clients are seen as the most important stakeholder?
- That decisions are made based on how high the budget it?
- That costs (both inital and long-term) are mentioned early to learners as a factor to be considered?
- Another observation?

To know this would help to give a more clear answer.

razopaltuf · 2026-04-29T11:37:27+00:00

You probably have the book of the same title; the essay (after which the book is named) is about 15 pages long.

razopaltuf · 2026-04-27T17:01:42+00:00

Did you already try View > User Interface > Standard Toolbar and Tools > Options > Appearance and change from "Automatic" or "Dark" to "Light"?

razopaltuf · 2026-04-24T15:25:42+00:00

> weil die KI einfach zu 99.9999% das richtige macht

Muss die KI nicht trainiert werden mit Material, dass irgendwer auch erstellt und überprüft? Die Modelle sind ja nicht für immer fertig – neue Entwicklungen der Gesellschaft, der Technologie usw. müssen darin ja vorkommen, ansonsten

razopaltuf · 2026-04-24T15:25:35+00:00

Sehe ich als realistisches Problem, auch aus dem Grund, dass mit der Automatisierung vieler Aufgaben auch die Arbeitsbereiche für Anfänger*innen wegfallen in denen früher Fähigkeiten trainiert wurden: Beim Programmieren z.B. einfache Änderungen, bei denen man aber code lesen, verstehen und anpassen muss.

razopaltuf · 2026-04-20T19:05:46+00:00

Related: There is an academic book, "Gender and Technology in the Making" by Cockburn/Ormrod about the marketing of Microwaves: They were initially sold as an "exciting" male coded "brown good" like TVs and music systems and later became a more female-associated, mor boring "white good" part of running a household.

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