On Thu, May 12, 2005 12:37:53 PM +0200, Joerg Barfurth
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> >More exactly, the pain is if add-ons are _only_ distributed as OO.o
> >native packages: and if Linux users are not recommended to prefer,
> >whenever available, the native packages for their distribution.
>
> Why should Linux *users* be told this.
I was thinking to those add-ons that are not OO.o specific, even if
they come from OO.o users: templates, dictionaries and clip-art, for
example. Those which OO.o has no responsibility or possibility to
integrate in the whole system, even when they should.
In the template case, for example, we should stop talking of "OO.o
templates" and start saying "OpenDocument templates that can be used
with OO.o, KOffice, AbiWord or some automatic xml processing sw". All
the talk about how good OpenDocument is inevitably leads to this.
Consequently, the Linux user should be told "if you want this template
to be automatically visible also by KOffice etc... do use or create a
package for your distro. Otherwise, just using OO.o installer won't
make any difference".
Ciao,
Marco F.
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Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention
from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end,
an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads
lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a
magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be,
have nothing important to communicate. -- H. D. Thoreau, 1854
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