On 04/14/2010 12:15 AM, Bernhard Dippold wrote:
I don't want to discuss the design of the icons here - it's about their basics:
Bernhard, please read up on the interoperability goals of ODF, that might help you catch up.
In general, a fundamental goal of a universal document format is that it is independent of specific application. JPEG, MPEG, FLAC, PDF, Vorbis and other standard formats do not have application-specific icons. ODF does not have them and should not acquire them either. During the early days of ODF, M$ boosters spent a lot of effort trying to equate ODF with OOo. Now is not the time to go backwards.
Having OOo specific icons is false, because ODF is for all suites. It also is bad marketing for OOo because it implies that somehow OOo might not be using real ODF and instead using a broken version, like M$ Office does.
But I know that I'm not alone...
Your colleagues at M$ and branches of M$ like Novell support the same divisiveness of the data formats. ODF is for all productivity suites.
Changing the presentation of ODF files to be associated with specific application goes against the principle of universal interoperability and, visually, endorses the Microsoft idea that the applications are not compatible. The era of closed systems is over.
Koffice, OOo, SO, GoogleDocs, Lotus Notes, NeoOffice, and others are all working for seamless exchange of documents. There are imperfections, but with the exception of MS Office, these are accidental and being fixed as they are found.
Years ago, OOo and SO used to have their own format, and thus a set of icons corresponding to that mime type. OOo was the first suite of many to move to ODF as the default format
I don't want to provide manpower for free to a marketing strategy that doesn't have OpenOffice.org as main focus.
Thank you, that is a good choice, Bernhard: Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
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