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------- Additional comments from goranmari...@openoffice.org Tue Dec 16 15:46:37 +0000 2008 ------- Hello again. First of all, let me say that I truly appreciate the effort put into OO project by all the contributors. It is a lot of time and effort, and when you work on something for altruistic reasons, criticism can seem harsher than in case of commercial products. After all, one might say, how can we complain for something that is given as a gift? But if the gift promises a lot - and I guess we all perceive promises and, above all, marketing differently and we have high expectations for different reasons - it doesn't mean we won't be disappointed when it fails to fulfill them. Hence, IMHO, hamlet9000 reaction; I personally sympathise with you because to me this is the one feature that has stopped me from moving to OO on several occasions; from my perspective OO does not meet expectations, but I'd refrain from calling it crippleware or a joke: there aren't many large applications that don't have issues of some kind; we learned to live with some of them, others are nagging us even today. One of the reasons why I want OO to succeed is because I highly dislike MS's development philosophy that tries to cater to everyone, but at the expense of those who know more, and it bothers me to see something resembling at least parts of that attitude here. Let me elaborate. I know quite a few people who wouldn't even notice lack of this feature. However, they wouldn't really notice a lot of other features or characteristics as well, and they would be equally inefficient when using Wordpad, Writer and Word. I could go into concrete examples, but there'd be no point. On the other hand, I know only one person who actually uses word processors for heavy duty tasks or as her main tool who doesn't care that much about the draft view. So, in a way, Writer fits the MS way and it can replace Word for majority of people who are not heavy users. If that is the goal - as opposed to it being just part of the goal - then Writer fits the role, not necessarily by design, but it fits. But so long as that is the case, some of us will regard Word as the tool and Writer as its lightweight copy, in spite of all the other advantages it may have. Regarding copying from Word: I don't think there's anything wrong in borrowing something that work well. Rather, I think it's wrong not to copy a feature if the only motivation is to make Writer different. If Writer can offer Wordlike normal/draft view and feature extra customisation that would make it superior to the Word's view, all the better. @loucrazy You may consider this to be a small feature: I don't and I would use Wordpad before Writer because of this feature. The reason why I don't use Wordpad is because I use Word. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
