On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 16:07 +0200, Marcello Romani wrote: > Il 17/09/2011 14:30, David B Teague sr ha scritto: > > 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 > > > > That sounds good in theory, but IMHO it's not as simple as it seems once > you start to debate how to implement it. > I think it's not worth the trouble, given the presence of Gnumeric + > Abiword + google docs for those who need only a 20% of what OOo can > offer (not that I think gnumeric is only 20% of Calc, btw). > > -- > Marcello Romani >
The problem is that a user may only use a fraction of LO but each user uses a different fraction. So for office use you end up needing almost all the features to cover what most users actually use. The "light" programs you mentioned can be frustrating to use when you have used a program with many more features. -- 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
