Brian On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 16:17 +0100, Brian Barker wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 08:30 -0400, David B Teague sr wrote: > >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. > > One thing to remember is that in institutions, it will not be the > user's job to install or upgrade software. Users should not be > running as root/administrator and will not have access to any > installation media. The efficient way to install software in such > scenarios is to install everything and to provide hardware capable of > operating it satisfactorily. There would be no advantage - indeed, > considerable disadvantage - if IT departments had to hunt down a set > of extensions to make up the package they needed. It would be > another obstacle to change. > Good point, there is a big difference between, home, home office, and small business users and large institutional or corporation users. Often the former are owner/operators and can tailor the installation, while the latter often have limited authority to modify their installation. > Brian Barker > > -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- 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
