Exactly.
But for some reason, common sense seems to be dead; and with it
disappeared learning from the past ;-(
With hope, maybe folks will listen to your well-phrased message ;-)
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Tim Deaton <t...@timdeaton.org> wrote:
I don't think we need to remove existing features. But I DO think we need
> to focus on the "90% of average users". Basically, I think LO should be
> making sure it can do everything that MS Office 97 (15-year-old software)
> could do, and do it just as well and just as easily. If LO could do THAT,
> it would eat Microsoft's lunch.
>
> -- Tim Deaton
> ===========================
>
>
> On 10/2/2012 2:45 AM, Marcello Romani wrote:
>
>> Il 24/09/2012 17:15, Mirosław Zalewski ha scritto:
>>
>>> On 24/09/2012 at 16:48, "webmaster-Kracked_P_P" <
>>> webmas...@krackedpress.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> We need to keep it with the
>>>> needed options for the 90% "average" users and not for those that are in
>>>> the last 10% or even those in the last 1% or less users that do so
>>>> complex work that the "average" user could not figure out why this is
>>>> being done or even how to do such a thing even with the needed
>>>> documentation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I totally disagree.
>>>
>>> If user is unable to do something he wants with open documentation, then
>>> this
>>> is documentation fault. It should be fixed (made clear, verbose, use
>>> screenshots or anything), not feature should be disabled.
>>>
>>> There are many ways to speed up opening of programs. Some features may be
>>> delayed or loaded on request. Application can be modularized - core
>>> features
>>> are loaded by default, other are loaded only if user wants them (take a
>>> look
>>> at LaTeX, GNU R, Miranda (instant messenger), even Mozilla Firefox to
>>> some
>>> avail).
>>>
>>> *Removing* features is total no-go, because it will drive away these
>>> users who
>>> need them. And I don't think that LO is application only for 90% of it's
>>> current users.
>>>
>>>
>> As much as I hate "me too!" e-mails...
>>
>> ;P
>>
>
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