Will LIbreOffice eventually be available on Ubuntu without having to do all the technical stuff?
2011/1/19 Fabián Rodríguez <magic...@member.fsf.org> > On 11-01-19 02:19 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: > > She could probably add the repo to synaptic and install > > by simply copy/pasting the repo url appropriately into > > the synaptic repo tool, then searching, clicking, installing, > > too, since we're in pointy clicky land here. > > Not that learning to manage in the CLI is ever a bad idea, > > and, in truth, it really IS simpler than all the gui-goodness (bloat). > > Just, our job on this list is to help her get the LO software installed, > > more than make a real hacker out of her. > > Sometimes I think we scare folks off, is all. > > I find nothing wrong with luring them in with all the eye-candy and > newfangled > > "user friendliness" (although I really concur with tuomo about that > > term "user friendly"), > > then, when they're really hooked, get 'em writing bash scripts and > > learning ruby and python and shite... > > I would welcome detailed, tested steps to do the same in a GUI with less > than the 4 steps I enumerated. :) Using a PPA is already a stretch of > using "Linux for human beings", so is going to LibreOffice so early. > > Try describing what you wrote in detailed steps (as an exercise) and > soon you will need screenshots, red circles and arrows pointing at > stuff: "add the repo to synaptic and install by simply copy/pasting the > repo url appropriately into the synaptic repo tool, then searching, > clicking, installing, too, since we're in pointy clicky land here." > While at it please define "repo", "synaptic", "repo url", "repo tool" > and "installing"! I seriously wish PPAs where easier, but then we'd end > up with Active X :D Such documentation shortcuts are impossible to > decifer by most users and if expand them it becomes some huge > intimidating document. I know about this from doing it full time for the > last 4 years (for Ubuntu, specifically). > > I think a video might be in order :) Meh. > > Cheers, > > -- > LibreOffice questions ? Des questions sur LibreOffice ? Preguntas acerca > de LibreOffice ? Ask LibreOffice: http://libreoffice.shapado.com/ > ~ > Fabián Rodríguez > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:MagicFab > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > users+h...@libreoffice.org<users%2bh...@libreoffice.org> > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > -- ** "Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." - Malcolm X <http://www.facebook.com/theblackreport/posts/182952568405023> -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
