KamiHír wrote:
Randomthots írta:
Derek Meyer wrote:
On the release of OpenOffice 2.0, OOo has come up to (and surpassed)
Microsoft Office standards for the working professional. If you
want to
increase the user base significantly, there are two things that I
believe
must be done first and foremost:
* Implement a ClipArt system to compete with Microsoft's
* Improve Impress usability - see review posted all over online for
suggestions
These two things will increase appeal to the average home computer
user.
With that audience, OpenOffice will gain tremendous ground - but
until then,
the lack of ClipArt especially, will continue to distract attention
from
your excellent suite. Potential users, such as schools and
families, need
clipart available for projects, but without it they will continue to
pay
ridiculous amounts for Microsoft Office.
Thanks for your consideration,
Derek Meyer
I also haven't read the reviews on Impress of which you speak, but
from posts to these lists I would not tend to argue with the idea
that Impress still needs work in some areas.
As to the ClipArt... I'm a pragmatic sort of fellow. One can find
clip art all over the place -- Web sites too numerous to mention
(just Google for it), CD's at Wal-mart with a few thousand images for
$10, etc. For that matter, I have absolutely no compunction against
going to http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us
and getting clip art from Microsoft. There are no licensing
restrictions that I can see and the images work perfectly well in OOo.
I'm somewhat underwhelmed by the OpenClipArt project; don't get me
wrong, I'm behind the concept and I appreciate the efforts of the
contributors, but... well, way too many penguins for one thing. I've
tried to use it several times and I have yet to find an image that I
need. And until OOo can utilize SVG images, the WMF format from the
MS site is still the best choice for resizable images.
And did you try my gallery?
http://hu.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=377&expandFolder=377&folderID=375
The current version is 1.22
If OpenOffice.org implements clipart, I recommend having the download
only contain the software, but the first time you run it it asks you
whether you want to download clipart from the web.
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