Who The Hell Thought This Was A Good Idea

The OpenOffice people should be ashamed of themselves. Their product just keeps getting more irritating to use. I guess they could be proud that they are attempting to emulate even that aspect of the Microsoft version, but it pisses me off. I'm trying to read some document for work and it contains bulleted lists. I don't know what committee got together and decided that human beings were too stupid to handle bulleted lists with "only" four toolbar buttons and a menubar entry, but apparently they carry some weight with the development team because now whenever your cursor enters the first column of a bulleted list it pops up a stupid dialog with fourteen individual buttons on it. This is stupid for three reasons. One, who the hell needs that many buttons? Two, I already have (enough) buttons for bulleted lists on the toolbar where I can find them when I decide I need them. Three, it steals my keyboard focus, so my attempt to scroll down through the document I'm reading gets completely interrupted until I go close the dialog, which then pops up on the very next goddamn line, since that's another entry in the list. And the Escape key can't even close the thing; I have to mouse over to the close button to get rid of it. Bonus gripe: all of this would almost be forgiven if there was a "leave me the shit alone" checkbox on the thing so that I would only have to deal with this irritation once, but no such luck.