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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 29 11:13:46 +0000 2008 ------- @kalpesh99. They are already "looking at it". Which after five years really is a major bread-through! The development team has a long to-do list. They (should) prioritise as follows: 1. Need-to-have for current users: serious bugs and safety issues. New essentials requirements, like a .docx filter. All top priority. 2. Need-to-have for candidate-users like you and me: people who would love to use OOo but cannot do so because Writer lacks basic features, such as "normal view". 3. Nice-to-have for current users: bibliographical support, better ways to rotate pictures, etc. 4. Nice-to-have for candidate-users: irrelevant. Wether the team really prioritises like that, is for you to judge. See paragraph "Development - past, present, future" at the Writer page http://sw.openoffice.org. In defense of Matthias Bauer & Co, I should add that he inherited some serious problems in Writer, especially the facts that part of the code is written in Java and that Writer uses fixed page templates. The latter problem also causes the absence of an outline feature. Solving this problem requires a drastic overhaul of the code. Unfortunately, this intended overhaul whiped a quick and dirty fix from the agenda. You and me, and tens of thousands of other user-candidates, would be helped enormously by an ugly fix at another programming level. The overhaul is technically the best thing to do, without any question. But skipping the quick and dirty fix is a colossal marketing blunder. I think this problem is keeping Matthias awake at night. If it doesn't, OOo Writer is doomed... Meanwhile, my Ubuntu installation is all set-up and ready. But I hardly boot it because there is no professional word processor for Linux. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
