Hi everyone, Recently, we've been talking about our workflow and, as part of that, we came to the conclusion that we need to define a clear direction. The best way to do that, IMHO, is defining a clear purpose for LibreOffice and its components and continually striving to fulfill that purpose as well as possible.
In our last IRC chat [1], Reda Lazri proposed "a 21st century suite that is easy for new users and powerful for existing ones". My original thought was that LibreOffice was too disparate to have a clear purpose and wanted to define purposes for individual modules only. However, since that time, I've come around to the idea of having a single purpose for LibreOffice, and here's a rough draft I propose: to let the user organize information and help them present it to others in a digestible manner. I should clarify that these are all just rough drafts, and that even when this team decides on a purpose, it won't be binding. The idea here is to not force a direction on devs and rather let the defined purposes stand based on their merit. I should also note that the goal derived from a purpose is basically to provide the best user experience for fulfilling that purpose -- that means things like ease of use, speed, great visual and interaction design, etc. are all a given. Post your thoughts on the purpose of LibreOffice in this thread and hopefully we'll come to a firm conclusion at the next IRC meeting [2]. [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Meetings/2014-06-29 [2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Meetings -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
