https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163101
Bug ID: 163101
Summary: "zero matches found" / Libreoffice's learning curve --
a side note on the apparent new concept, the new
direction of developing Libreoffice
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.8.1.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
hi,
This is not an enhancement suggestion, but a side note.
Last night I was testing version 24.8 and I was startled by "the blue"..
(Linux Mint LMDE 6, Mint-Y aqua + Writer: Colibre SVG)
the blue label in the background of the application msg: "search key not
found",
plus an "i" icon that warns the "user" that there is a message :)
My opinion: you can develop LibreOffice in this direction, too...
That is: making sure that the dumbest people will also understand what's going
on once they hit the search button, be it an accident or an intentional move.
But this direction leads to a vast corporate world in which everybody is dumb
and is just using the tools, and only using them as long as they have to suffer
at work till the end of the working hours.
This is a direction, too.
But I'd like to remind us that LibreOffice is a tool for creation,
a tool to be freely used during creation, be it your new business or art
project, or helping kids in a kindergarten.
LibreOffice belong to the Western tradition, the Western culture.
We have writers, artists, free individuals as idols, we get constant
inspiration from beautiful works of art, beautiful creations of our culture.
LibreOffice doesn't liberate office work...
LibreOffice, in the Western interpretation -- which is the native one --
liberates writing and creating documents...
By the powers of LibreOffice, creative individuals can really create stuff that
would be possible only if they used the dumb MS products, after paying
ridiculous sums of money.
LibreOffice liberates our relation to software and applications.
To make it short: LibreOffice is an intelligent tool for intelligent people.
....
>From this vantage point two routes open:
1. make LibreOffice usable for not only intelligent people but for alienated
people, too, out of culture, who just work in a stupid office...
2. declare that LibreOffice is an intelligent tool, a humanist achievement, and
make it possible for the dumb to learn it...
route 1 leads to a dumb corporate world with dumb workers who are trained to
hit buttons
route 2 leads to a live and vivid "modern" culture (postmodern) with thinking
individuals in it... which makes a bright and inspiring environment for
everyone who wants to join in...
Every project has a mission... this or that...
- - - thank you for developing LibreOffice and Writer - - -
PS:
Dumb is not a synonym for retard or uncultivated, dumb refers to a type of
individual who doesn't want to learn cause they are not interested...
Dumb is an attitude, not a degree of mental / intellectual capabilities...
Being dumb is chosen by the individual based on easiness and comfort and
simplicity.
Consumer society as a system typically turns masses into dumb ones
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