Michael Adams a écrit :
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:58:20 +0200
Came this utterance formulated by Patrick DESAUNAY to my mailbox:
I approve Max comments, almost all of them. They are useful
improvements.
Some already exist in the program. Max simply has not learned how to
take advantage of them.
If the user cannot see the function, the function does not exist. The
user is always right.
Michael, Thank you for your kind comments, but please understand such
opinion as mine (and others):
a) Many OOo supporters argue when a feature is requested "do this
instead", "it is not so severe" . Simply, when it is not here, it
should be considered to implement it. It only means: "make a better
product"., "answer to customers need (it means Quality)" etc...
A perceived requirement may actually reduce quality by making the
program more bloated and slower.
Most of requirements are quite simple things. Most of all, there is no
specific reason that OOo would be slower etc... than MSO
b) although a long time user of OOo, I fully disagree with comments
such as "it should not be a copycat" to justify missing features. OOo
should be BETTER than MS. And it is not. Too many features are bugged,
and too many features are missing. So, it should, at least, be a
copycat, and then a better product.
You are happy to swap to a ribbon interface? AFAICT this will slow down
productivity and increase learning required, only to make it easier for
newbies. I think the ribbon in OO.o is a frivolous idea, when so many
bugs need squashing (I haven't yet tried 3.1.1).
I have no idea about th eribbon. My concern is that, by instance, table management in
impress is buggy, notes preview in impress is buggy, saving in MSO format to exchange
with my customers (99% of the "outside" world) is buggy, macro language is
unsable as being a far too complex language, deafult color/format of shapes cannot be
kept etc.. Simple functions.
BTW, many users I try to convince to move to OOo simply answer: "not
compatible". The time it takes them to learn bypasses and other
turnarounds cost too much in their organisations for them to move to
something else, even free (one day of training costs more than one
licence, did you know this?)
>From Office 2003 upgrade training for OO.o is easier than for Office
2007.
Maybe .I have no idea about this. But the point is simply that many users simply do not
want to change due to the compatibility reputation of OOo, and thus have noq uestion
about training. Again, compatibility is the issue. As a NPO trainer, I have found how
quickly users can drop a software, just because one single function is not here, seems to
be not here, or is different from the "other one".
