I have to say I hole heartedly disagree. Simplicity with choice is great. I agree here, but Keeping our entire application "Libo" Seamless is a must. The Libo office suite has many counterparts, tons of differentiating purposes, and needs to fulfil for a large diverse consumer base with many different needs. But the application as a hole from introduction - obtaining - installation - updating should be seamless and easy for the users who know nothing about technology. We, no matter the process, from discussion, development, and to presenting our products to the user shall be seamless. Its the right thing to do.
When downloading libreOffice, I think you should get all counterparts (Math, base, impress, draw etc etc). Giving the option for just one or the other will create confusion for the customer. I think there are other options to decrease the overall size of the package to achieve faster downloads. Can we discuss what other options we can consider, what portions of the libreoffice are subjective to being removed or split off into a separate download without compromising the overall user experience. Also, can we define exactly what we are trying to achieve? Is it just a smaller package for download options. If so, why? On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Robert Derman <robert.der...@pressenter.com > wrote: > With all the discussion of the size of the download package and the > difficulty of including things like manuals I suddenly realized that perhaps > we are going about this thing entirely wrong! Perhaps what we should do is > offer a CHOICE of several download packages, not just one take it or leave > it package. > > A basic download package with just the core LO Office Suite, like what we > have had up to now, and as an alternative, a Complete package including > users manual(s), templates, extensions, clip art, fonts, anything else that > should be in a complete package. Perhaps we could even offer a Writer Only > package without Calc, Draw, Impress, Base, or Math, and with just a BRIEF > users manual for Writer. I suspect that there may be many home users that > just want a word processor and aren't at all interested in the rest of the > suite. > > > Different users have very different internet connections, some are still > dial up. Some are DSL, and some are Cable and have huge bandwidth. > Offering only a One-Size-Fits-All package may no longer be the best idea. > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org<discuss%2bh...@documentfoundation.org> > Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
