Daniel -
I am a newbie who asked your first pet peeve question... but I think you
need to look at the OpenOffice website for some of these problems.
For one thing, the download page mentions every recent windows
incarnation EXCEPT vista. Presumably this would be an EASY thing to
change. Without a shotgun.
Then, when you go to the porting page, it makes reference to a
soon-to-be-released version 2.2 which (writing from memory now) "Will
support the Vista enhancements". Not the clearest bit of English on the
planet. And if Vista is missing from the download page, and missing
from the system requirement page, and then there is very ambiguous
verbiage like that above on the porting page, and if you are like most
VISTA users reeling from millions of VISTA incompatibility problems that
multiply like mice, you might be forgiven for wanting some clarity.
Now I don't think it would be all that difficult for whoever had the
keys to those pages to make the &*(&*&&(* language clearer. I am aware
that that is not you. But the native web page itself is hugely unclear
on some of these questions that it would be REALLY easy to be clear
about, and if other newbies are like me, they spend lengthy periods of
time scouring those native web pages, then get frustrated, and post to
the list in a hurry just to get SOME kind of answer.
I got chewed out for also asking the question by email to a supposed
developer-only list. Did I subscribe to this list? No. Did I even
know I was posting to a list? No. I merely clicked a link on the
porting page, the PUBLIC porting page, that said "Click here to send an
email if you have more questions". Pardon me for living and the
scolding I got for that, but.... c'mon webmasters!
So, feeling a little sensitive, I can only say that while I think a FAQ
would be great, why hide some of these BASIC answers from where they
ought to be in the first place, like the page called "System
Requirements" linked from the download page on the OpenOffice web site?
My 2c.
-s
Daniel Kasak wrote:
I have some unbelievably important questions to ask all of you. I
realise that these questions may very well have been asked before, but I
think I am justified in asking them again, and I encourage others who
read this question ( and more importantly, those who *don't* ) to ask
the same question again, and again, and again, regardless of the content
or volume of answers given.
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1) Is OpenOffice compatible with Vista?
1.5) No, seriously. Answer it again. Is OpenOffice compatible with Vista?
2) How do I install OpenOffice on my Mac? It keeps telling me to upgrade
X11, but I already have.
3) Is there an Outlook equivalent? How do I email from OpenOffice?
4) Is OpenOffice compatible with Microsoft Office?
5) Citizen X is selling OpenOffice on Ebay. The scoundrels!
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Now seriously, I oppose the gun lobby and their argument that people
have a right to bear arms, but sometimes I wonder whether people in the
gun lobby are just old OpenOffice mailing list lurkers who are fed up
with FAQs from newbies ... especially newbies who aren't even subscribed
and who force others to forward all responses to them manually.
- People who want to post to the list should be subscribed.
- The subscription process should include reading a list of FAQs and
their answers, possibly with a confirmation checkbox against each FAQ.
- When a subscription is activated, the FAQ should be emailed to the
subscriber, just in case.
It's a real turn off to check my OpenOffice folders and see the same
questions asked over & over. It's a waste of people's time, and it means
that others who have legitimate questions are having time stolen from
them by people who can't be bothered searching the list archives.
I am personally volunteering to assemble a FAQ ( I'll try to keep the
sarcasm to a minimum ... ). I don't know about the subscription process,
but I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to integrate the above into it.
What say ye?
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