Hi,
Frank Peters wrote:
Uwe Fischer wrote:
The Sun "Getting Started Guide" does not fit in to OOo documentation.
It was written months before the first release of OOo 2, thus it is
very outdated. And it will be updated only when and if Sun marketing
demands this. The included installation steps are for StarOffice only,
they cannot be used for OOo.
Does that mean that the Sun GSG contains *only* StarOffice-specific
content? What if the Sun doc team helps working on the OOo GSG content
and just keeps a smalldocument covering strictly SO specific content,
like installation?
The "StarOffice 8 Getting Started Guide" by Sun consists of an
installation part and some short chapters to introduce the main modules.
The installation part does not apply to OOo because it explains only the
Sun proprietary setup program or script. The other parts are outdated.
On the other hand, the OOo community has three types of documentation
for new users:
- a Setup Guide (about 51 pages, available in many languages, linked
from here: http://documentation.openoffice.org/setup_guide2/index.html )
- a Getting Started Guide (about 260 pages, linked from here:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html )
The OOo Setup Guide is much better than the Sun Guide because complete
instructions are given on the UNIX native install file formats. Sun
decided not to do this for StarOffice to keep instructions simple.
Some links in the guides look old (refering to version 2.0.2 for
example) but they still work.
There are no obvious cross-links from the Setup Guide page to the
Getting Started page and back, so a user who has found the one page on
the OOo Web site may not be aware of the other.
To adopt the OOo Setup Guide to be usable for StarOffice would require
to change all file and folder names. The resulting document would have
almost the same size as the OOo document (there is no Mac version for
StarOffice).
(while exploring the documentation.openoffice.org site, I stumbled upon
an installation.html page which looked good, but I cannot find it now.
The Web site is so slow that it is a real pain to browse around there.)
Uwe
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