On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 13:51 -0600, Randomthots wrote: > 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.
Not sure about that really. I should think the web site is a mixture. I have given a lot of CDs out to peopel who would never thing to visit the web site. To be honest I only visit it to download the latest version or to check issues or something. I doubt many home users could navigate the website. I could well be wrong but I would think most of the people that visit the website are more experienced people who are likely to disseminate OOo to less experienced. > > 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)? Not that hard. We have already discussed the possiblity of modifying the interface for the elementary school market here. Its certainly doable but as with everything else we need some more resources to do it because we are swamped with opther work at present. > > 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.) Well yes, so could IBM and probably many others. I'm working on raising the resources myself because relying on others to do it is just too uncertain. If they do, great but we need other lines of attack too. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
