On Friday 30 May 2003 06:48, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > DA>> > such excellent server programs as Apache, Samba etc. etc., but > DA>> the desktops > look like bad Windows look-alikes, and the > DA>> applications are worse. > DA>> > DA>> So you don't think we can or should go for linux on the desktop for > DA>> non-programmers? > > The problem is not "we can" or "we should" - the problem is that current > state is not fit as a replacement for Office. Not yet, if you prefer, but > still.
Well, I happen to think it's already good enough in many cases - for people who don't need to do things like revision tracking, collaboration on a document and interoperation with other office apps. And the more people who use it, the faster it wil improve and the easier it'll be to convince others to start using it. > > DA>> msword look-alikes. But then you say people can't be retrained > DA>> to use it. That means there's no point in linux on the desktop. > > The problem not if people can be retrained, the problem is to make them > want to be retrained. For that, one should propose alternative as good as > and even better. If you say "oh yes, lyx is better, you only need to do > 10-step instruction including compiling a couple of packages from the > source and installing a couple of fonts and libraries" - that may be good > enough for the entusiast, which *wants* to do it, but it is long way from > being good enough for person you want to convince to do it. I assume you mean the Hebrew support, since packages for lyx itself are already available on most distros. OK, so suppose distros bring it down to the level of just having to do sth like "emerge lyx latex-hebrew-support lyx-hebrew-conf". Which on gentoo will probably become, "USE=hebrew emerge lyx". As easy as installing any other package - you just need to know what you want, by name. Will that be enough? -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
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