On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 18:38, Vadim Vygonets wrote: > Quoth Alon Weinstein on Tue, Mar 04, 2003: > > Care to list the alternative options? I can guess Lyx for document creation, > > GIMP for image manipulation, but that's where my list ends. What are the > > options to perform other common tasks: > > > > -- Email & Organizer (an only-email client is no replacement for Outlook or > > Evolution) > > Replacement for Outlook? What are you talking about? Some of us > used e-mail before Microsoft had an IP stack in their basic OS > distributions.
You remind me what I knew about using Windows before I arrived to my current workplace. Outlook is not just a mail client but a (convenient! IMHO) address book + calendar + notes + mail organizer. You can say they don't belong together but the fact is that the integration is VERY convenient. > Organizers should run on PalmOS anyway ;) Seriously though, it's > not a job of an MUA to organize files, it's not a browser's job > to read news, and the only reasonable mail + news reader in one > piece I ever heard of is Gnus. I think you are mixing Outlook Express with Outlook. > > > -- Spreadsheet > > Why are people so obsessed with spreadsheets? What do you use > them for? To keep records of numbers (e.g. flight log books, simple money tracking), graphs (our club's flying priority graph is printed automatically with excel). Anyway - just because you don't have or want to use an application doesn't mean it's illegitimate for others to use it. > > > -- Presentations > > TeX, as Muli said. > > > -- File and web-browsing (i.e Windows Explorer/Konquerer/Galleon) > > Netscape (or Mozilla) did *not* rip MSIE's interface, they both > ripped it from Mosaic. You're forgetting that MS is a newcomer > on the Net. > > > Those are the first things that pop to my head, I'm sure there are other > > areas in which most OSS alternatives are merely imitating MS's or any > > commercial vendor's products. > > Sure. And the usability of Windows programs is higher than that > of most competing Linux software. But your claims that the only > thing OSS people can do WRT GUI is rip MS's interface make me > want to come over and rip KDE/Gnome from under your feet, so you > see real UNIX inside, however ugly it may be. I think many people who despise MS (me among them) admit that they are kings when it comes to GUI design and usability for non-technical users. Just because some program looks like MS doesn't mean it's bad - many times it's an interface which matured through a long time of user feedback and enhancements and besides it might help immigrants from MS world to feel more comfortable. > > Vadik. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
