https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173169

--- Comment #3 from Carlos R. Esp <[email protected]> ---
Unclear use case?

As the Wikipedia LibreLogo entry says, the purpose of the LibreLogo interpreter
in LibreOffice is:

- Educational: Accessible tool to teach programming concepts visually in your
own language.
- Automation: Programmable generation of vector graphics which can be copied to
any application of the suite.

Having it included by default just makes it easier to use. Anyway, in many
Linux distributions I found that it is already provided as an independent
package outside of the standard LibreOffice packages.

It's true that the tool now lacks of a more accessible in-place documentation,
which almost restricts its use to experts, and that now has a very limited
maintenance. Both problems are the same: If you doesn't make it easier to learn
and robust enough, that means less users and less interest. I think that's a
lot of lost potential if you ask me, even more if we consider that it's been
translated to so many languages.

I think we could include a cheat-sheet with all the commands, and a visual way
to see and change the language in use for interpreting the program, in order to
expose to the user all the functionality provided and help to find
translation-related bugs.

Making it an extension will not fix its problems, we will be removing a
long-time supported feature that is exclusive of LibreOffice and then I don't
know if all the development could continue outside (about documentation,
translations, tests, etc.). I feel that if you want to remove it from the core,
it's because you want to stop maintaining it, so that sounds like the end of
LibreLogo for me. :(

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