[Sheflug] Re: Open Office

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

Will

Will Newton wrote:

> So, I contend that Star/Open Office has a horrible UI...

Have you ever seen an oil painting or a piece of fine art ?
  
> I don't see a logical flow here.

Well, the one from Baz was all about using Emacs or something.  So, I
merged that one in with this.

 mentioned not one jot emacs, vi or
> whatever else. I just said that Star Office had a crap UI, which IMO it
> does. Very non-standard. Oh yeah, and it's word support is woeful.

 I've e-mailed MS Word stuff all over the world from my desktop from
Star Office
and no one has so far complained.  I mean *everywhere*.  Including
Hawaii and everywhere else.

> Basically it outputs complete gibberish, Abiword doesn't do Word export
> (I don't think I'll ever manage to make people realise "I want it in Word
> format" is an ambiguous statement)

No *it_isn't*.  The whole world uses "word Format" and they expect it.
 
> > 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
> 
> I grew up in Wakefield. Do go on.


Why do you not understand plain old fashioned English ?

>Word tends to leave you spending hours tweaking settings and never end up
>with a consistent and smart looking document.

Only if you don't know how to use a computer.  It's completely clear
that this is true from what you say. If you can't click on a bloody
mouse then why do you bother to use a computer when you don't have a
use for one ???

>In my case one doesn't use Star Office either.

Which means that you can't see further than the end of your own nose. 
Either that or you don't understand simple economics.


-- 
Richard

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