Hi Lars,

Le 16.04.2010 13:45, Lars Nooden a écrit :
>
> On 04/14/2010 12:15 AM, Bernhard Dippold wrote:
>> I don't want to discuss the design of the icons here - it's about their
>> basics:
>
> Bernhard, please read up on the interoperability goals of ODF, that
> might help you catch up.
>
> In general, a fundamental goal of a universal document format is that
> it is independent of specific application.  JPEG, MPEG, FLAC, PDF,
> Vorbis and other standard formats do not have application-specific
> icons.  ODF does not have them and should not acquire them either. 
> During the early days of ODF, M$ boosters spent a lot of effort trying
> to equate ODF with OOo.  Now is not the time to go backwards.
>
> Having OOo specific icons is false, because ODF is for all suites.  It
> also is bad marketing for OOo because it implies that somehow OOo
> might not be using real ODF and instead using a broken version, like
> M$ Office does.

I agree, but what do you think about the possibility to create MS-Word
file with OOo by clicking on a button with ODF icon ? You are in this
case if you configure OOo for using MS-Word format as default format to
save text documents.

Regards.
JBF

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