Brian Barker wrote:
At 21:09 31/12/2008 -0500, Tim Lonly wrote:
Tim Lonly?
I, Tim L. wrote it, or am I T. Lonly?, what ever. . . .
we need a laugh these days.
On the Quickstarter and the opening screen, there is listed
Presentation. In the Extension repository there it is listed as
Impress. Why is Impress called "Presentation" instead of Impress for
these links? It seems to me a confusing thing to me.
Impress is the name of the component (if indeed OpenOffice has
components) and "presentation" is the type of document. This
distinction occurs for all OpenOffice document types, not just for
presentations.
Whilst some well-known office suites are actually a collection of
separate applications, OpenOffice is more of an integrated whole.
When you have OpenOffice open, you have all of it available, not just
one component. It is more helpful to think of OpenOffice as a single
application which is capable of creating and editing documents of
different types. (Failing to understand this is one reason why people
can be confused by the welcome screen in version 3. If you close all
open documents but not OpenOffice itself, which component do you
have? Answer: None, but you still have OpenOffice - and that's why
you now see the welcome screen, which invites you to create or open a
document of any relevant type.)
When you have OpenOffice started, and whether or not you have any
document or documents open, you can create a new document of any of
its types. The Quickstarter, the welcome screen, the File | New >
menu, and the New button in the Standard toolbar all reflect this by
listing not application components but document types: Text document,
Spreadsheet, Presentation, Drawing, Database, Formula. Strangely, the
entries in the program menus instead list names for components: Base,
Calc, Draw, Impress, Math, Writer (though OpenOffice.org, leading to
the welcome screen, is also listed). But these program entries do not
so much start a specific component as start OpenOffice and then create
a fresh document of the appropriate type.
You might wonder why OpenOffice preserves these component names. Is
it for historical reasons? Or perhaps to make OpenOffice appear more
familiar to those new users who are used to Another Office Suite? Of
course, the "Why?" doesn't matter in understanding how to use
OpenOffice or to think of it.
Brian Barker
The big thing I wanted to "Impress" people with the fact that people
sees the name of
the document type and then does not see the name of the "part" of the
suite of software
that makes up OpenOffice.org.
It can be confusing to some people. When they combined the parts into
one startup
system, I got questions. They see the icons in the Start Folder for
OOo, but do not
see them on the desktop or in the quick start menu. I was asked Where
Are They?
As a person with a learning disorder (thanks stroke), it can be a
concern when you
started using a product and then there is some big name changes? At
least there was
not big navigation changes (except the start screen) that MS did with
their 2007
suite.
So, I wanted to bring out the question of the lack of "part" names that
people where
remembering instead of MS's parts.
Tim L.
retired and tired of MS.
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