Am 07.07.11 17:01, schrieb theUser BL:
Hi!
What is the advantage of the Apache OpenOffice.org Fork?
Currently there are two point of views what a OOo fork is and what not.
If you look at the trademark and logo, then LibreOffice is the fork.
But if you look at all other things, like where all the old OOo developer are
working and so on, then LibreOffice is the new OpenOffice.org and the Apache
OpenOffice.org is the fork.
If you call Marketing people, translators, and Doc writer developer,
Yes. But I think you are wrong informated by the press. The main work of
the core development was done by the developer at Hamburg, not by
Novell, RedHat or Canonical. It's simply wrong if you say, that the
developer from Hamburg has changed to LibO. That's FUD and no more.
For me (and not only for me) developer are much more important then project
logos and names. And so for me (and not only for me) Apache OpenOffice.org with
its new developers is the fork.
We have new Developer but also same of the moast expirienced OOo
developers from Hamburg. They work since the Star Office time at this
Programm
I have seen, how OpenOffice.org changed after the core team changed to
LibreOffice.
Ok, at this point I want to mention icons. Have a look at this screenshot of
OOo from the old team:
http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/img/preview_screenshots/openoffice11.png
and then have a look at the icons of the OOo after the core team have left:
http://t3n.de/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/OpenOffice_org_33.jpg
All icons looking at the first view identical. Same colors, similar look.
OpenOffice.org have had a philosophy behind a lot of things. Here the coloring
spcs of the old OOo:
http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_galaxy_mimetype.html
As there stand "The language of colors are one of the most important
identifier to differ between all of OpenOffice.org applications.".
But the Apache OpenOffice.org fork have forgotten it.
And wath has colors to due with core development, nothing.
But the team, who have written the spec, have at LibreOffice created new icons
with the same philosophy:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/LibreOffice_Initial_Icons
They are marketing people and same ui designer not core developer
Thats for example.
And no one other, then the people at LibreOffice understanding the code base of
the Office Suite better.
So what is the advantage of your OpenOffice.org fork? What will Apache OOo do
better then LibreOffice?
We have over 60 peoples as Commitor and two Companys IBM and RF2000
behind use. This are enough reason to exist.
Greetings Raphael
--
My private Homepage: http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/
