On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 19:15, Mary Gardiner wrote: > People who use computers that way aren't asking for "something with a > pretty picture to click on" before they think it's easy to use. They're > asking for something that lines up with their highly application > specific (and probably quite detailed) set of mental images.
Nicely said Mary... There is someone working on a post install replacement of the menus and toolbars to match OpenOffice.org's major competitor. I have no idea how far this is though. The reasons that we do not match: a) Some of the decisions of M$ are bad, we can fix them b) We could get sued if the interface matched, not worth the risk. The documented reality is that 90% of the users convert with a barely noticable blip in productivity. There are a few that cannot due to macros, power users or whatever. Bottom line is that you can simply migrate the majority and leave the minority on Legacy systems until they are ready to convert themselves. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
