Shaun, Am Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:55:03 +0000 schrieb Shaun McDonald: > > On 17 Mar 2008, at 11:58, Alex Thurgood wrote: >> Shaun McDonald a écrit : >> >> >> Hi Shaun, >>> The snapshot is meant to be there to show the basic >>> functionality and look and feel of the mac aqua. As someone who >>> never uses the merge facility, this won't be an issue for me. >>> For those who do, it is a crash that doesn't affect what they >>> have saved already. >>> >> >> I agree, but then how do you define basic functionality ? If you >> mean just writer, calc, draw and impress, I disagree. Base is as >> much part of the suite as the rest, and an essential business >> component. The reason the reports module was rewritten was >> because it was felt to be an important business need. > > Let's use the 80%/20% rule, 80% of the people will use 20% of the > functionality. Therefore if 20% of the functionality and looks > god and works great, then 80% of the people will be happy.
>>> If you can come up with a list of known issues, I can add it to >>> the information on >>> http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua.html >> If I can get DEV3 to stay open for more than 30secs I'll let you >> know. So far, whenever I click on New Document of any kind, OOo >> DEV3 m1 crashes and starts the recovery service. >> > > I'm currently using m2 here with no problems for writing a text > document. It is really snappy compared to previous milestones and > I've not yet had a crash. There are bugs there, though they seem > to be more cosmetic, than loss of saved data. Again, it's not about preventing Louis or anyone else to release an alpha, beta or whatever it is called based on m2 or m3 the point is that the Apple download page Louis refers to is a page where the user awaits a *final* and not a software which, even if he only uses 20%, crashes because he sadly is one of those users who uses those 20% which 80% never use. To make it short. Yes, we should release another aqua preview. Yes, we should announce it using PR, mailinglists, forums, whatever. Yes, we need to make clear that this is a preview that by no means should be used for productive usage and/or daily work. Even if we never find an issue/crash whatever we devs/supports here on the list may not use the 80% where the issues are. *No*, we shouldn't put a preview on the Apple download sites. This can do us more harm then help. Regards, Eric -- ## de.OpenOffice.org - Office für MacOS X, Linux, Solaris & Windows ## Openoffice.org - ich steck mit drin! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
