[Wylug-discuss] Linux on the desktop (was [Wylug-help] Fw: Re: Installing a speedtouch modem)

[Nik Jewell]

Hi Jim, all

I knew somebody would challenge me on OO :-)

Its 'ghastliness' for me is mainly on aesthetic grounds; I just find it
ugly and clunky.

More importantly, however, is interoperability with others and with
other apps.  On the former, I do a great deal of collaborative editing
of documents and OO doesn't have the kind of 'track changes' type
functionality that can interoperate with Word users (I'm not sure that
it has any such functionality at all ?) .

I have also found in the past (though there may be improvements now)
that OO could not be trusted to open a Word doc with complex formatting
and preserve that formatting after editing it and returning it to its
creator for further editing in Word..

With regard to interop with other apps, I've been a huge fan of Visio
since long before M$ bought it (an M$ buyout that made me fairly unhappy
at the time); it may only be a minor inconvenience but I do appreciate
the OLE functionality of being able to edit my diagrams in place.

Maybe I should use OO at home, and I used to, but I cannot any longer be
bothered to use two different apps when one will do.  As I said in my OP
it's all a matter of getting my job done.

Cheers

Nik

Jim Jackson wrote:

>On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Rik Wade wrote:
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>
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>>OpenOffice was the start of Good Things in that finally, one outfit was
>>producing a single, _coordinated_ attempt at the office productivity suite
>>problem. OpenOffice is good enough to use for production purposes, but
>>only if you really can't afford the Real Thing.
>>
>>
>
>Ok I'm renowned for being a terminal junky - even own a few REAL terminals
>and use them! so GUIs are in general anathema to me. BUT I have had to use
>MS Office to produce stuff for printers etc, and latterly I have used
>OpenOffice to the same job and my experience is that OO is easier to use
>and less frustrating than MSoffice. So I'd be interested to know why, Nik
>and Rik seem to think it is inferior?
>
>Interestingly the printer I dealt with knew I'd changed from MSOffice by
>the better quality output, but thought I started using something real on a
>MAC :-) I'll be interested in trying out the PDF writer stuff, I've not
>gone to OO 1.1 yet.
>
>Jim
>
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