Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
Hi all,
quoting from a post in the ux mailing list:
Miroslav Mazel escribió:
I think that Draw and Base should be removed from the basic OpenOffice
package (but still be downloadable optionally), the reason being that Base
has a very different user base and Draw, as it stands, has a very small user
base, is very inferior to competing free software (like InkScape), most of
<snip> Sorry, but I just
think that Draw is very unimportant, and that the other applications should
get as much focus as possible. What I would suggest is scrapping Draw and
including a link to InkScape on the OpenOffice.org website - or including a
modified version of InkScape with OpenOffice. Base should go on, but as a
separate project. What do you think?
should we laugh or cry?
Hi Ariel,
Do you think the premise of the question so absurd as to be laughable?
The naivety of the poster might be laughable (though I wouldn't agree
with that even), but not the question itself.
Quite the contrary, I would bet you would find a majority of users that
would vote to keep draw (look at the responses at the UX list) I doubt
the same would be the case for Base (look at the responses at the UX
list). Which is not to say that most would want Base killed (although I
would not bet on that), but many do not understand why it is part of the
basic installation. Of course if you are running the fastest growing
Linux desktop distribution, Base is not part of the default
installation anyway, so there you go - one big vote cast already.
Does Base have a user group, you bet it does, would that group support a
move to make it a separate package from the rest of OpenOffice.org?
Maybe, it would depend on how the Base Run-Time packaging was handled I
suppose.
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