Hi :) I think everyone on this list, even a fresh & 'clueless' noob, is in the top 10%. The very fact of knowing about and trying LibreOffice puts people in a very exclusive top percentage of office 'geeks'.
Apparently it would not be trivial to remove features and make add-ons/extensions to add back that functionality if required. Even on low-spec machines there probably wouldn't be a dramatic increase in performance and it might complicate things too much. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 18/9/11, Tim Deaton <[email protected]> wrote: From: Tim Deaton <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: docx format troubles To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, 18 September, 2011, 3:13 It's very true that 80% of people only use 20% of the program. The problem is that my 20% is not your 20%. Now, if you could do in-depth tracking of thousands of random users, you might be able to isolate a certain set of features that almost nobody uses. Then those features could be removed if doing so would make enough difference (in performance or in resources used) to make it worth the effort. -- Tim Deaton On 9/17/2011 8:40 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I really like that idea a lot but i have been told it's unfeasable. Even if > we could clearly identify that 20% it would be tricky to slim the apps down > that way. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Sat, 17/9/11, David B Teague sr<[email protected]> wrote: > > From: David B Teague sr<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: docx format troubles > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, 17 September, 2011, 13:30 > > On 9/16/2011 6:56 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> If you were able to ring-fence about 20% of the features of MS Office then >> about 80% of users never stray outside that. From what i see it's more like >> about 100% of users. Most users don't even use all of that 20%. > I hope this isn't hijacking the thread, and if so, /please /say so, and I'll > repost this in a new thread. > > The fact that 20% of the features of MS Office (and by implication, LO and > OO.o) used almost exclusively by some 80% of the users suggests to me that > OO.o should identify that 20% of features and modularize OO.o or LO or what > have you to include that 20% and make the other 80% of the features available > as extensions. > > I'd like comments on this idea. > > David Teague > > -- nil significat nisi oscillat > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > 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/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
