Further thoughts. I believe that the including of helper utilities in a standard LO distribution could help to differentiate it from OOo. As an example, if LO is invoked without any parameters, it takes considerable time to load, and then presents a choice of its major applications. Instead of this, it could quickly load a selection box that offered a range of simple tasks (view a file, convert formats, email a file etc.) as well as the major apps. I use Linux with a KDE 3.5 Desktop in which the major apps are presented individually in the main menu. What I'd like to see in addition is a selection page like this that loads quickly, and presents a series of simple tasks without loading the whole shebang.
All Users of OOo and (sign of the cross) Word are automatically accustomed, not only to the loading delay of these monster apps, but to their (unavoidably) complex menus. If LO were to present a quick, simple interface of the type I've described as the default invocation, it would be a paradigm shift for Users. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Helper-utilities-and-ODT-to-PDF-conversion-tp3742018p3742329.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
