In Libreoffice writer the wordcount is now displayed on the status bar. This is great and very helpful to students and the like (Ref Bug 34772.) However, personally, I find it a pain. It's purely psychological but my work and fan fic writing does not require specific content length. So I feel I have an electronic boss checking my work. It gets in the way of creative thinking! It's an irritance only and I can turn the status bar off but would it be possible to be able to toggle the status bar word count? Then I can view the page count which is of use but without the wordcount. It might seem just an irration but us writers are weird like that! No biggie. (I've installed Abiword as a backup!) Librewriter is brilliant, mind. It single handedly turned me to open source and Linux and I have not looked back. Many thanks.
Thanks for reporting! I can see your point this can be irritating to users who really don't need it. Therefore I mark this as NEW. Kind regards, Joren
Thank you very much indeed. :-) From: bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org To: laurence_coombes@hotmail.co.uk Subject: [Bug 63361] Make it possible to toggle/disable word count in status bar Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:05:58 +0000 Jorendc changed bug 63361 What Removed Added Status UNCONFIRMED NEW Whiteboard ProposedEasyHack SkillCpp Summary Writer: Can we toggle word count in status bar on/off? Make it possible to toggle/disable word count in status bar Ever confirmed 1 Comment # 1 on bug 63361 from Jorendc Thanks for reporting! I can see your point this can be irritating to users who really don't need it. Therefore I mark this as NEW. Kind regards, Joren You are receiving this mail because: You reported the bug.
I am new to it but I'll try to solve it.
Thank you so much. I am very grateful. Based on previous experience in software I would imagune a simple tick box in the writer settings which sets a variable and then it becomes "If var is true then display, if not, don't." No need to engage with count code itself at all I would have thought. But I am not the expert here! From: bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org To: laurence_coombes@hotmail.co.uk Subject: [Bug 63361] Make it possible to toggle/disable word count in status bar Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 23:21:05 +0000 Andreas Loizou changed bug 63361 What Removed Added Assignee libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org andreasl.loizou@hotmail.com CC andreasl.loizou@hotmail.com Comment # 3 on bug 63361 from Andreas Loizou I am new to it but I'll try to solve it. You are receiving this mail because: You reported the bug.
In order to limit the confusion between ProposedEasyHack and EasyHack and to make queries much easier we are changing ProposedEasyHack to NeedsDevEval. Thank you and apologies for the noise
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (needsDevEval skillCpp topicUI) [NinjaEdit]
Not an easy hack - ideally one should be able to configure the statusbar as you can configure the toolbar.