Hi Everyone This is Terry Olesen mid career professional counsellor in Perth Western Australia. I'm a fan of Open Office after being one over from MS Office, after 2.5 years. Basically I want to suggest to Open Office developers (Frank?) that Open Office add a feature analagous to the "one note" feature found in Microsoft Office 2007. I would very much like this feature in that it 'embeds' several documents (spread sheet, to do list, word document, jpg) into the one place (Word Document). It is great for the to-do lists, and project management work I do. I'm not sure this discussion email is correcdt forum so please redirect me to somewhere else if new ideas for Ooo should be directed elswehre. Thanks Terry Olese (I need openoffice to do this in the next three months otherwise I'll be chosing unfortunately MS Office Home Suite 2007 with One Note.)
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 22 April 2009 12:23 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: [marketing] Re: [ux-discuss] Bundling of extensions in OpenOffice.org Hi Martin, Basically, from a user experience perspective an extension can be considered as a general "feature" or "function". Therefore, to decide if an extension can become a permanent feature in OpenOffice.org the same rules/processes/guidelines should be used as in any other case. In short, the process that governs if EXTENSION XYZ goes into the product should be no different from the process that governs if FEATURE XYZ goes into the product. This also requires that bundled extensions would not show up in the normal view of the extension manager. For that to happen, the following UX related questions should be considered: 1. What real user problem/user goal does the feature/extension in question address and solve? 2. Does this user problem/user goal concern a sufficient amount of OpenOffice.org target users? 3. Does the design/behavior of the feature /extension meet OpenOffice.org target user's expectations? To rephrase the questions, a candidate feature/extension should always efficiently address a real user problem/goal that is relevant to the majority of OpenOffice.org target users. Furthermore updates for bundled extension should be deployed with normal OOo/SO product updates. This would secure that all users have exactly the same program code installed and users would not run into trouble updating a bundled (shared) extension due to missing user rights on their system. Best regards, Frank Martin Hollmichel wrote: > Hi, > > in last ESC meeting > (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ESC_meeting_minutes_20090309 > ) there was the item "Define Criteria when to bundle extensions" on > the agenda. > > Based on the proposal > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ESC/Criteria_for_bundling_ext > ensions we got the following requirements from technical point of > view: > > Extensions should: > > * be localized > * documented, online help available > * QAd, Feature must be complete and without serious bugs > * consistent with the UI of the core product and other bundled > extensions > * does not need limited UI resources, and is not considered core > functionality at the same time > * a11y compliant > > There was the agreement that also the marketing and user experience > team might want to add important criteria and rules upon this so that > finally the release status meeting is able to accept proposals for > bundling and is able to decide based on these rules. > > Simple rules might be something like "must have x downloads per week, > at least a rating of y stars, and z ratings at all". But I will leave > it to the experts to discuss such criteria. > > From my point of view I'll add the requirement that the source code > for bundled extensions need to be in the OpenOffice.org source code > repository to get the bundling done in a automated manner so that they > will be LGPL license compliant and follow the accepted guidelines of > the project. > > Martin -- Sun Microsystems GmbH Frank Loehmann Nagelsweg 55 User Experience StarOffice 20097 Hamburg Phone: (+49 40)23646 882 Germany Fax: (+49 40)23646 550 http://www.sun.de mailto:[email protected] OpenOffice.org User Experience Team http://ux.openoffice.org Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH,Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten, Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
