23 Nov
2011
23 Nov
'11
2:51 a.m.
Any evaluation should not be how these apps compare to
MS Office, but are
they palatable for most people for many tasks? Don't look for missing
escoteric features. Forget about importing and exporting MS Office files.
Focus on usability by typical users with common needs.
I think everything you have said was just invalidated by this paragraph.
What is a user with common needs? almost 100% of the time that involves MS
compat one way or another. It is unrealistic to pretend that users won't
need this. And what do we do when they say "oh no I can save my .docx
file", do we just say "oh well most common users don't need that?".
No.
With that said, I am not against supporting OO/LO as
long as that focus is
tight integration with TDE. I hate the OO/LO file picker dialogs. They are
useless compared to KDialog. Menu and toolbar look-and-feel needs help. Tim
was working on some of that a while ago but I don't what happened. I think
Tim told the LO people the TDE team would maintain the hooks needed for TDE
integration.
This is important obviously, and we don't want to roll out a premature LO
picker. I think it is safe to say that OpenOffice is all but dead...
Perhaps after R14 we can have a serious discussion
about the future of
KOffice. Yet I don't think any such discussion will be valid unless we
perform some serious testing and evaluations.
Certainly not an R14 topic of concern but perhaps R15.
Agreed, but we also need to make long term decisions. No point putting
weeks of labor into a product just to drop it in a few versions. Make sense?
Calvin Morrison