If you go to Options the first tab called User Data is the default one that will be open all the time. In general User Data is useful to have correct content in the property dialog, but in times where user data and privacy is an unique selling point for an open source project, I suggest to have a better (new) landing page in the options dialog. maybe with some basic settings (which are available somewhere else too) from where the user can jump into detail if needed.
Good idea, though we could also rework the dialog even further. There are some tickets...
(In reply to andreas_k from comment #0) ... > > In general User Data is useful to have correct content in the property > dialog, but in times where user data and privacy is an unique selling point > for an open source project, I suggest to have a better (new) landing page in > the options dialog. > ... Hmm, I think that is a fallacy, having the means to anonymize a document by clearing the User data _needs_ to be the most prominent action of the Options dialog. Likewise the ability to encrypt or to sign a document. While setting some value for the user fields exposes addition UI function (e.g. last edit position) for document when reopened by the same user. Opening to the User data panel of the Options dialog provides prominent control of those functions. Leave it alone.
Created attachment 155754 [details] Benjamin home configure tab Sorry I think something got wrong. I'd like to introduce an home configure tab where the most wanted configurations can be changed. Like the simple/advanced idea from [1]. [1] http://scrabble.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Usage:Configuration
Another option for such a landing page is to show static text with links to the interesting tabs. Something like "Tweak your interface by changing the <icon theme and size>, <colors>, or <wallpapers>." along with a nice image.
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #2) > Hmm, I think that is a fallacy, having the means to anonymize a document by > clearing the User data _needs_ to be the most prominent action of the > Options dialog. Clearing user data from a document isn't done in Options though, but in File -> Properties -> General instead, uncheck "Apply user data". For me, Tools -> Options -> User Data, the "Use data for document properties" checkbox is always disabled, I didn't find out why (and didn't investigate), and unchecked, but still my name is written to properties (Created and Modified) unless I uncheck the option in File Properties. Both, the disabled checkbox and name written to properties even if disabled and unchecked, smell like bugs to me, but I don't know how's that intended to work.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 130083 ***