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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 4 00:18:30 -0700 2006 ------- I have to agree with every word MarshFeldman wrote, I am astonished that the project can make such a fundamental mistake when trying to compete with e.g. the new Office 12. In particular: >Even better, how hard is it to test for a legal path >when the user enters a new path? Well, quite. Andre Schnabel said: >I absolutely agree, that this was not one of >our best decisions. No. And not updating the documentation to match should be /impossible/. I am surprised that a change as significant as this can be introduced as a dot- dot point change, without a proper Beta programme. This is a feature-set change, not a bugfix. And I am furious that with the Chart module outstanding and some issues as old as 5038, 7065, 4579, 1761, 1598, and (god help us) 972 & 366 going unadressed that rare programming resource is allocated to this sort of destructive tinkering. If the developers continute to take this high-handed attitude with the users and thier views then the bubble of enthusiasm for OOo will burst. The existence of Issuezilla and the ability to communicate so openly with the development team is a huge differentiator over the competition, and compensates for the lack of user-friendly features or true innovation over the majority product. If the development team continue to concentrate on thier own priorities then this advantage will be worthless. I suggest that someone needs to do a query of the most highly voted-for issues, and get them dealt with, making at least a 2.1 and 2.2 revision to include them and maintianing 2.0.x until a sensible beta is over for both of them. There are only 165 issues with more than 12 votes. I use the product intensively, having a political objection to monopolies, and try to persuade other people to use it. But frankly, it isn't as good as it thinks it is, and it is nowhere near as good as the opposition. Microsoft got good with usability labs and very large (closed) feedback programmes. With enthusiastic and politically motivated early adopters and an open feedback programme, someone should be asking why there are so many "how do I" threads on the user forums. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
