Ian Lynch wrote:
If one app is going to be less good at file compatibility better for it
to be Impress than Writer.
Agreed.
It depends who the audience is. Marketing is a selective communication
with specific customers in specific market sectors. While ODF might be
of no interest to some clueless end user, it is certainly of interest to
IBM and governments and so its rather a mistake to just talk about
marketing as if it was some general blanket approach.
I understand that. But the OOo homepage trumpets ODF like the second
coming of Christ. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would think the web
presence is mostly targeted at the home and smb markets. The big-biz and
goverments markets are the baily-wick of the professional sales staff.
If there are web browser
viewers, editors, utilities galore in the next couple of years it will
make a compelling case for adoption of OOo too.
Which is when marketing OOo as the ODF "reference app" will be really
effective.
RE: Which means to me, that in addition to the code optimization that
many (including myself) advocate, some serious thought needs to be put
into the UI.
Probably the best option is to have a MS like option and an optimised
ergonomics option. Click a button and it looks like MS Office, click
again and it is the optimised version. That way people can choose.
I like this, but I seem to remember threads expressing serious criticism
of that idea in the past. Given how customizable the menues and toolbars
are, how hard would it be to have pre-defined UI schemas (no idea if
that's the right term, but you should get the idea)?
Back to priorities again. Which do you want first?
I want it all, right now. :)
Seriously, about 5 times as many developers hammering code would be nice.
Specifically WRT to email/pim, it would be interesting to see what the
Google folks could do given a full head of steam. Seems right up their
alley. (Google's market cap is ~$110 billion, so they could certainly
afford to invest some resources if they deemed it advantageous.)
--
Rod
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