Hi Chris!
Walter Hildebrandt,
About two weeks ago I commented on the fact that your way of handling
Calc workbooks opening in seperate Windows leaves something to be
desired.
I'm not Walter, and I don't know who Walter is. You have sent your email
to a list of OpenOffice.org users, similar to yourself. You are not
talking to the "owners" of OpenOffice.
You have expressed your frustration well. Many of us have also experienced
frustration from time to time with OpenOffice.org, so we know how you
feel. Despite frustration, we continue to use OpenOffice.org because we
find it is the best tool for the job, despite its imperfections. You have
given us lots of details, but I'm not sure you want us (as fellow
OpenOffice users) to do.
You have raised a few questions about open source software that "beggars
your belief". I have to ask you: How committed are you to open source
software? As a user of OpenOffice, you are part of the OpenOffice
community, and have an opportunity (if you dare take it) of helping
OpenOffice improve. You have raised some points you want fixed. Yelling at
us (your fellow users) won't fix them!
If you are serious about it, you have to file some "issues". That's the
way to see some real change. I recommend you identify a few of the most
important things you would like to see fixed/changed, go to
http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html
and file issues for them. You can then let us know which issues you have
filed, and ask us to vote to see those issues implemented. (It's worth
searching first to see if there are already issues that deal with your
problems.)
In the last month I filed my first issue on a bug I discovered, and it was
solved within four hours. That's pretty good! However, not all issues are
implemented so quickly. Some involve a lot of work (which has to be
prioritised), and some new features can involve lots of discussion.
In the meantime (if you are committed to OpenOffice), you may like to
consider redesigning some of your spreadsheets for OpenOffice, or at least
experimenting to see whether there is a better way of doing some of those
formulas (and macros?) now that you are using OpenOffice. At the moment
you are using a spreadsheet designed for a completely different program,
and expecting it to perform perfectly in Calc. While OpenOffice is very
good at doing that (much better than Excel, which can't do it at all!),
you may have better luck redesigning in Calc. You may even come up with a
better spreadsheet! (I imagine you can just copy and paste most of the
data).
Adrian
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