On 26/08/17 11:41, Istvan Gabor wrote:
1. openoffice/libreoffice always had an offline help system, that's the normal way. Removing it and redirecting to a website - it's ridiculous.
I agree ... I wish they hadn't got rid of paper help, but unfortunately it's a case of "new, shiny, internet!" - Except in London I still get rubbish connectivity of an evening ... and can't upgrade to fibre (FTTC) because I live too *close* to the exchange ...
2. Never understood why openoffice was replaced with libreoffice. In my experience openoffice is more reliable and has less problems than libreoffice. The only thing I don't like in it its user interface.
Because it's terminally broken? It took OpenOffice SIX MONTHS to do a single build to fix a "you've been pwned" bug. Meanwhile LO gets rebuilt every night in a whole variety of configurations for testing and debugging (let alone getting rebuilt all the times by devs, and people on gentoo, etc etc ...)
3. Why these office programs has to be developed at all? I mean openoffice 2.x/3.x already had all the features required to normal office work. I think anything beyond it needs professional document processing programs. We don't need new "features" and changes which always accompanied with new bugs too. What we need is a stable reliable program with a standard feature set, development only should fix bugs and make the program work in new systems.
As other people said, MS keeps changing things. IMHO WordPerfect 6.x for DOS/Win3.1 is *still* the best word processor available, it's just an absolute pig to try and run it on any modern system :-( Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org