[Sheflug] Re: Open Office

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Dear All

Will Newton wrote:

> > I think that's the problem. If it could be cut down into bite-size
> > portions, as it was originally, rather than forcing the whole banquet down
> > in one go it would make more headway.
> 
> And if the interface wasn't crap. (Sorry, I'm being charitable)

No, don't gedit :)  I need most of the features in a good word
processor complete with pictures and all else.  I nearly always use
most of the features.  Went through a city & guilds office skills
course to do that.  So, I don't understand what the problem is.  Why
do I need to use a programming tool instead of an office suite which
is what I really need ?

I grew up in Sheffield where every kid understood that they might end
up in the engineering industry.  In that place design of a tool for a
job is everything and always will be.  The whole of the local economy
used to depend on that way of thinking.  The same applies to use of
computers.  A specific tool is designed for a specific task and it is
used for that task.  Emacs and vi weren't designed to produce nice
finished documents that look like something that came out of MS
Office.  And so, I don't use them for that purpose.  I don't have a
use for MS software and so I use a well designed and well finished
office suite that is produced for Linux and several other platforms. 
In fact, without the free software and open source public forum that
Linux has produced some very nice and entirely useful office suites
would never have been produced.  Star Office is one of those and works
very well on some very slow machines which are about 400MHz in speed.

One doesn't remove a car engine with a 28lb sledge hammer. One uses
the appropriate tools :)

Thanks

-- 
Richard

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