Is it crucial to have a default office application at all? I would
imagine anybody who is new to Linux would be happy just having access to
Mousepad as a GUI text editor in the menu and having the option during
install to download LO or other similar packages. An office suite seems
like a pretty big space use for installation media to have. For LO's
download files , just Writer (77.6 MB to download) and Calc (83.6 MB to
download) is a pretty big jump in size compared to Abiword (4.4MB on
disk) and Gnumeric (6.6MB) on disk. If having them is crucial, I'd like
to see Abiword and Gnumeric stick around.
Honestly, though, I can't imagine why they are needed. I can't see any
use cases where a person who needs them won't either know how to install
them or already have it installed by the people who set up the computer
for them. Almost nobody needs to start editing spreadsheets as soon as
their computer starts up for the first time.
On 1/28/2015 3:01 PM, Eero Tamminen wrote:
Hi,
On keskiviikko 28 tammikuu 2015, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
We've had this discussion a few times in past cycles, but as we
continue to bump into bugs in Abiword[0], the topic has come up again.
How are we feeling about our default choice of Abiword and Gnumeric as
the office applications for Xubuntu? Is it time to consider switching
to LibreOffice?
I think both are fine as standalone applications. Main problem comes from
file exchange with Windows users, which is fairly frequent use-case.
* Gnumeric has worked fine for me with Excel documents.
* Abiword cannot be used even to properly view more complicated Word
documents.
* When it comes to presentations, while LO-impress can be used to view them,
modifying the, with LO normally breaks them (fonts/kerning etc).
So, I think the questions are:
* How well LO fits onto installation media, it and its dependencies are much
larger than the games that are being talked about...
* How important file exchange with Windows users is?
Solution for latter can also be e.g. "Install full (Windows compatible)
office suite" link on desktop...
- Eero
I'll note that in the past the pro-LibreOffice users tended to
dominate these discussions. Feel free to speak up, but we're actively
encouraging the folks who use and prefer Abiword and Gnumeric to speak
up too. How would changing the default impact you? Do you feel
strongly about not switching to LibreOffice?
Thanks everyone.
[0] One of the latest that came up during testing:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/1395323
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