On 06/29/2008 02:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From my limited experience, the impression I have is that ooo developers > seem to arbitrarily implement new features which are inferior to the > corresponding features in standard use. A good example is the tree setup > for the custom installer.
Nonsense. The custom installation tree is standard in many programs. When you selected custom installation OOo presented you with a tree of selected items that you can choose to install or not. It also allowed you to select your installation directory of choice. Just to check I just installed OOo 2.4.1 (windows) using a custom install and and had it install into C:\OOo. The installation went with out a hitch. I also instructed the install to associate all Word, Excel etc files with OOo and following installation that worked perfectly as well. I thought that perhaps all went so well because I'd installed on a Windows 2000 Professional virtual machine, so I rebooted into Windows XP and did the same. Again, no problems at all. When you installed, you also complained about OOo not putting icons on your desktop. FWIW neither does MS Office when installed from scratch. If you want component icons on your desktop, put them there the same way that you do when you install MS Office. If you'd like, you can deinstall MSO completely and reinstall it from scratch and see if the icons magically appear on your desktop. Also try performing a custom install to a custom directory and see how that comares for you. Did you by chance read the information on the Installation Instructions link on the right hand side of: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html This one: http://download.openoffice.org/common/instructions.html That tells you that following a proper installation you will find OOo in the Programs sub-menu of the Start menu. Did you not find it there? Did it run not properly after you selected one of the OOo components (Write, Calc, Base, Draw, etc)? The approach I would like to see would be to > start with the standard features of MS office and then explore what > improvements can be made. IMPROVEMENTS: not arbitrary changes. Users have > plenty of complaints about ms products. The ooo developers should > identify these and go trom that point. What on earth are you referring to? If you'd like "improvements" then dig in and participate. OOo is both a product and an an open-source project. You did read http://about.openoffice.org/index.html and http://why.openoffice.org/ before you decided to download this program onto your computer didn't you? If you'd like to contribute you might want to check out this page: http://contributing.openoffice.org/index.html Regarding your complaint about not being able to turn off emails from this list; this is a mailing list. If you'd prefer to use a 'forum' information is provided here: http://support.openoffice.org/index.html in the very first link: Free Community Support * The OpenOffice.org Community Forum http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ When you subscribed to this list you most likely read this: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html On that page you were given options on how to subscribe to the list, the archives, and an nntp usenet gmane.org service. You were also given instructions on how to unsubscribe from the list. Before you start telling the OOo developers what needs to be done (many who are not paid and donate their time and effort of their own accord) you might want to familiarize yourself with OpenOffice.org - the product and project, the list, the list archives, the product and project documentation, and common courtesy when others take their time to assist other OOo users and the OOo community. I'm quite certain that all here appreciate constructive and valid critisism of OOo - that is what enables the product and project to improve. No one however, appreciates someone stomping in and declaring that things are "inferior" and telling the developers what they should do... particularly when one has just failed to follow simple instructions on how to install the program. That said, welcome to the OOo community and the list should you decide to stay. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
