Hi all, As you perhaps know already, there is some effervescence in the francophone NLC about the new version 3.2.1. The problem is about the replacement of the splash-screen chosen by the Community, the look and the usability of the new StartCenter, and the method to do the changes.
There is two kinds of problem : - *theses changes break our processes, mainly our QA process*. Indeed OOo 3.2.1 is a bugfix and these changes do not fix any bug, so they have nothing to do in a bugfix. Confidence in the quality assurance rests, to a large extent, on the absolute respect of the procedures. The break of our processes is then a major fail and a very bad message sent to the Community. - *the new StartCenter is mainly unusable* due to the too small difference between ODF icons, the four small icons seem which seem grayed, "open file" and "template" actions which have the same icon (a closed folder !). Most of those to whom I showed the new StartCenter have said that it is a regression. If we consider the StarCenter as the gateway to OpenOffice.org, so it does not encourage the user to enter. I do not like to write that but, in its current state, I do not know how I could validate a francophone version of OOo 3.2.1. :-( If we do not want to discourage the Community it is essential that the main role of the Community shouldn't be only to accept and promote the decisions taken by Hambourg. Remember, without its Community, OpenOffice.org would not have a market share of ~20% in Europe. So we should work *together* to do a better version 3.2.1. Best regards. JBF -- Jean-Baptiste Faure French N-L project Lead http://fr.openoffice.org Seuls des formats ouverts peuvent assurer la pérennité de vos documents.
