This from Rod fits my experience:
"When I installed OOo for the first time in January '04, I thought the
question meant "Do want OOo to BE ABLE TO open MSO files?" So I thought,
"Yes. Install the appropriate filters, please." I really did NOT expect
the file associations to change. I didn't freak out, but I wasn't real
happy about it either. "
I think the "file associations" problem is red herring. It stands out,
but its not the deep problem. The whole instructions game is a matter of
psychological perception first, then of geek know-how. Reading occures
after the first impression.
The deep -- or rather deeper -- problem is wading through thousands of
pages of user instructions. In PDF it is slow and tedious when you have
only a TOC to work from. Sufficient cross linked highlights would be
difficult to construct and maintain, when there are so many operating
issues to be resolved, chanages to be made.
However, a thorough INDEX of every issue in the many many different
manuals can be done mostly through software and updated similarly. That
would allow better searching than Word Search allows /me/, because I do
not know the arcane names which OOo uses for all these issues.
Otherwise, when a program like OOo is built for geeks by geeks, it seems
the only recourse is to rely upon the hard work of the volunteer
go-betweens. With a sufficient INDEX they would be put out to pasture.
But then they would loose all those job benefits. So, back to business
as usual.
Richard
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