My brilliant idea, that I had, will revolutionise everything - completely.
Well the other night I was doing a drawing in DRAW, and I had to insert
a table...
But there was NO table production function, in the Draw program.
Soooo I thought "Well it's not such a big deal to do a table in Write
and then copy and paste it into Draw...
And then I went that one step further....
a) The seperate "file types" for separate functions, really is sourced
into ancient history - such as *.bat for batch files, *.exe for
executable files etc...
b) And especially in todays world, doing clear demarkation in
"packages", is a bit like doing a video.... We have CGI effects
(Computer Graphic Animation), we have the hard recorded video it's self,
we have audio recording, importing and mixing, and we have a heap of
editing tools....
What I'd like to see is to get rid of all the separate file and process
types, and have the ONE program - with the ONE file type, with all the
functions in it.
It would be so good to do a big drawing, to have an area for text laid
out in it, like a document, to have spreadsheet calculations and graphs
of the results....
And if I want to do it as a presentation.... I could save it with the
encoding in it, to flip the pages at different time intervals with extra
text etc.
Or if I wanted to print it out as an A3 document, or produce A2 or A1
drawings, then I wouldn't have to face the restrictions of developing
on, and printing to different paper sizes, as set by people who create
the different programs.....
In terms of convenience and sanity, I can see a lot of GOOD REASONS for
going with the ONE universal file type, and I can also see many GOOD
REASONS for getting rid of the old demarkation of process's.
I really like the idea of having a single file type, with a single
extension, such as *.ooo; that gives me all functions, available on all paper sizes, and *_/everything/_* "just opens" and runs within the one program...
I guess it's like getting a car serviced, sure I can book it in and take it to the Auto-Elecricians, then I can book it in and take it to the tyre place, and then I can book it in and take it to the car detailers, and then
I can book it in and take it to the crash repairs to get a few dings knocked out, and then I can book it in and take it to the mechanics....
Or I can simply drive it to the SERVICE CENTER, and get the whole lot done at
the one time, at the one place......
This is where I feel that modern practices have to take the Open Office
software, too.
As far as the car goes, I don't want to be contacting all these different places, to be making appointments and to be dropping it off at all these different places in all sorts of locations...
I want the same idea's eliminated from the Open OIffice program, so that I can
have ALL the functions, available to me, at all time, in every piece of work I
produce - without limitation or restriction.
I don't want to be unable to produce tables in a drawing document, or to have
very limited drawing functions in a text document, and I don't want to be
restricted to paper sizes for different formats.....
This demarkation, of limitations and restrictions of functions and facilities
is utterly stupid.
While in the text function, I may want tables and diagrams and sundry to be
included, but the paper size I may want, is A0, but I can't access that -
because the text program is designed to restrict that functionality....
But the commercial printer down the road, can print it out on A0 - for me.....
And all the other restrictions and limitations - What you can do well in Text -
you can't do very much of in Drawing, Spreadsheets or Presentations, and what
you can do well in Drawing, you can't well in Text, Presentations or
Spreadsheets...
I see that the next step in the evolution of this product - the office suite, is to
remove the "limited multifunction's" approach and to step into a universal full
functionality approach.
I really want the universal full functionality - of all the programs, written into the ONE program.
Cheers
Shane
