Comment 46 for bug 370034

It seems OpenOffice developers like working more on high profile user interface
redesign and importing/exporting alien file formats than some basic usability
issues.

I think that this bug will never be solved. It has been discussed to death
in the forums since at least 2003.
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=46

Ona related note, did anyone notice that feature plan for OpenOffice.org 2.0 (!)
contained an entry about creating a MS office like ruler to easier create
hanging indents?
(using three triangles instead of two). Was never implemented. Together with
a "snappy" ruler this would have been a godsend for 7 years already.
But the developers do not want simple users, they want you to create and
use styles.

Or what about trying to do something basic like inserting cut rows in calc?

http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=users&msgNo=145404
I guess also here the developers do not want to support simple users.
Here you need some three-fingered trick using ctrl-alt whatnot keys.
Usability? Not important.

Sorry about the rant, consider it my mourning process moving away from
OpenOffice.org and back again to Microsoft Office after five years...

I can accept now that "some things never change"