Drew Jensen wrote:
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.
I doubt that separating Base would have much in the way of negative
consequences -- it sort of follows the pattern that MS chose in making
Access a separate product or part of MS Office Pro rather than the basic
package. Since, as I understand it, no other components depend on Base
(unlike the interdependencies among the others for common code), and it
would decrease the size of the primary download, this might be worth
looking into. A couple of other possible advantages would be the ability
to update Base on a different schedule with regard to the others, which
could simplify testing for both packages, and the opportunity to package
the major extensions as optional parts of the installation with more
visibility into their capabilities. I wouldn't expect the Base user
community to be upset by having a separate download for it.
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