Hi Jean,
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I'm copying a recent comment from issue 102393 regarding the draft
Installation Guide for OOo3.x, in the hope of getting some feedback from
a wider range of people on this list. Especially someone with Mac OOo
knowledge re item 5. --Jean
1) the guide does not mention the extensibility of OOo with extensions
and templates, available at OOo Extensions and Templates sites, which is
funny, as a regular user of OOo knows this and doesn't need an
installation guide, but a newbie to OOo needs this guide and as such is
not familiar with the concept of extensions of an office suite (i.e. an
user of MSO). I guess the last chapter should include a section
"Extending OpenOffice.org" and describe the possibilities. This needs
not to be extensive, just to point the user to extensions site and warn
a user that not all extensions are intended for all
operating systems; special mention of additional spell-check
dictionaries might be useful;
This is a very good idea.
2) I would suggest to add a subsection Updating OOo to the last chapter,
that mentions that Sun builds have a function in Help menu to check for
updates of their office suite, and that they can also automatically be
warned of updates of the installed extensions and also perform their
update via Extension Manager
What is currently confusing is that the update manager does not
distinguish between the version and the extensions, so yes it's a good
idea also.
3) The guide is written very English-centric, for users that will use
the English version; a localization-purpose subversion of guide could be
made with more emphasis on langpacks if starting from an English
installation etc.
I think that the translator will manage this depending on what versions
his language is dealing with (langpacks, full version, full
localization, no help, etc...). So may be it's not needed to bother
English user with this.
4) page 8 does not mention Windows 7; does this mean OOo 3.2 does not
work or is not supported on Windows 7?
3.1.1 is working on Windows 7 (we have QA testers on the FR project who
have tested it), I don't know if there have been tests with 3.2 yet.
5) page 17: (Mac installation) it says that on multiuser installation
you move the app icon to the trash, but for the single user installation
you do not need to move the app icon to the trash but to delete the App
support subfolder? In a multiuser installation you do not need to or
cannot delete the prefs subforlder?
Kind regards
Sophie
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