On 2011-01-02 12:13 PM, Zaphod Feeblejocks wrote: > I have a concern about the Addons. In my 10+ years of using > OpenOffice/StarOffice, the > inclusion of addons was a great idea. However, the marketing of addons was > not so good - > hidden away in a place that you can find once, but not so easily find again. > > Could addons be clearly signposted on the main page? > > Could first-time users be taken to the addons page, so they know > functionality can be > extended? > > Could addons be clearly posted in the menus? > > Could the frequency of downloading addons be counted and a pack of the most > popular > ones be compiled? Could the most-frequent-addons pack even be an optional > extra > included with the download? > > There could even be the 'vanilla' install and the 'bumper-pack' install. > > Last summer, as part of the MSO to OOo migration, I hacked a batch file to > install OOo with > various settings and then various addons I had chosen (why was 'clipart' an > addon, I > wonder?). Simplifying this for downloaders wil help - I know several people > who think OOo > is not very good, because it has no clipart. Personally, I don't care about > clipart but it's all > down to user perceptions!
+5, all great points, but I'd also like to add that there should be some well defined pathway for an add-on to be nominated, considered and eventually incorporated (if deemed worthy) or not (if not) into the core code... -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
