Thorsten Behrens wrote: > Hm. That's a funny thing with the users. They tell you they want > 100% layout compatibility, and then they move on to Mac & use > Pages, because it's 'good enough' and so much nicer. There are smart > people out there, opining that when disruptive changes happen (and > they do, with web-based offerings, mobile phones etc.), you better > not listen to your established user base - I recommend (re-)reading > Clayton Christensen. ;)
We don't have "the" users. My fear is that a not so small and not so unimportant part of our users (the corporate users and those from the public sector) fall into the categorie of "whatever you do, don't spoil my document layout!". We see that everytime we accidently (or intentionally ;-)) broke something for them, e.g. if we fixed a bug of an old OOo version and now documents look different. Maybe that this is a very Writer-specific problem, but at the end this is the application I was talking about. So my ideas of what we can improve in the forseeable future don't are about "how can we split up or exchange the core". But there's enough to do elsewhere that can move us forward. And nothing that we can do will make the hurdle for a core model exchange higher than it is alraedy. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
