On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:19 AM, timofonic timofonic <timofo...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello. > > I wanted to reply this email, because I was having some minor > usability issues about LibreOffice. Nothing too bad, but I wanted to > share it with the team. > > I was helping my gf to do some university work, I installed her > LibreOffice because she was used to OpenOffice and no problems to it. > But there were some stuff was difficult to make for her, and also a > bit to me too. I may not be a Linux guru, but I have some years of > experience as user. Here we go: > > - About style and grammar checkers: I find quite confusing that they > aren't bundled with LO itself, I need to install different packages. > Despite this can be done easily by people used to Linux, others may > have difficulties to find the correct package. Also, I see there are > different extensions for different languages, yet they use Java most > of the time (I don't consider it an adequate technology not just > because it's by Oracle, but is a bloated dependency and may make > things worse for slower systems). I see there are Languagetool, it > supports lots of languages but requires java. There's lightproof, > requires Python (it's not so efficient too) and supports too few > languages at this moment. This feature is also bundled by default in > Microsoft Office and lots of people use it to proofread their > documents. There's a lack of automatically analyzing words written in > other languages like Latin (quite used for terms), too. > > - About dictionary: Are dictionaries so big to make them bundled by > default? Why not include them? Also, there were a lot of missing words > in the Spanish dictionary and some lack of understanding about able to > write compound words in both ways (f.ex. psico-social and > psicosocial). > > - About page enumeration: While I agree showing advanced options is a > plus, stuff like this is somewhat messy and confusing. Seriously, I > had to check a few tutorials to find a correct way to avoid page > enumeration to the first pages of a document and I had some issues > replicating it later. It's difficult to remember it and it seems I got > confused with page style or something like that (I can provide further > details if needed). > > I just wanted to share my opinion to others, maybe I'm wrong at it in > some way. But at least I tried to contribute a bit :) > > Regards. > > (Sorry for my bad English) > Thank you for your feedback. We're always looking to improve LibreOffice for you all (the users). We'll get a good healthy discussion about your points and see if there is any consensus about solutions :) Best Regards, Joel -- *Joel Madero* LibreOffice QA Volunteer jmadero....@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
