On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 00:21:47 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 08/25/2017 05:19 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
As I understand the situation, no, there is no offline help package. There is help available online but its quality is patchy. The developers and documentation writers are in the middle of a plan to make maintenance easier and appear to have decided that users are not useful during that process but are in fact an inconvenience to be ignored.
They are part way through converting the offline help to online help in a wiki. They say the wiki will be easier to edit than the existing offline help. Afterwards, they then intend to develop a process to convert the wiki contents back to offline help. But the plans are not firm and there is no timescale.
See https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Wikihelp
There have been various threads about the subject both here and on the libreoffice list, so plenty to read if you want more information.
Why the hell didn't they just leave the existing offline help in place until this was done? At least it explained collaborative annotations.
We are dealing with some real "Rock-Scientists" in this new crop of developers...
Let's just ditch the help while we change everything around, and then when the users are really lost, we will let them know there will be a wiki sometime in the future while we leave them to hunt and peck in the dark for whatever period of time it takes us to get around to finally worrying about the wiki.....
We need a hippocratic oath for new software devs....
1. openoffice/libreoffice always had an offline help system, that's the normal way. Removing it and redirecting to a website - it's ridiculous. 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. 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. Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org