Hi Florian, all,
(taking advantage of discussion so far..)
Florian Monfort wrote (27-12-12 11:34)
I've seen a lot of browsers recently moving towards silent updates.
I was wondering whether this could be a relevant approach for LibreOffice
or not.
Changes in office suites can have far more impact...
So it's not for nothing that both power users and companies won't like it.
But of course, just as our current update notification, it would be
quite easy to make it - whenever it comes through - optional.
Indeed I've seen many people complaining about LibreOffice features, UI
etc. While using LibreOffice 3.4... Of course the first advice is "just
upgrade" but for people I doesn't seem like such a good think to do, just
like it somewhat scares them. I'm pretty sure that happens with at least
half of our userbase.
Since the difficulties in getting to silent updates (it's not yet
technically close; it should be turned off by default, so then how to
convince people that they turn it on ;-) .. ) I would propose another
view at the current situation: every opportunity to explain users
something is a chance for communication and thus better mutual
understanding :-)
What do you guys think? I think this would improve the overall quality of
our userbase making sure that almost everyone has the very last stable
version, with all the fixes and improvements it brings.
Plus, for once we wouldn't be copying MS Office...
Hmm, there are for sure cases in which we did not, and also the other
way round happens!
Cheers,
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