Subject: Re: Suggestion: ugly Hack or subtle hint?
From: Mike Nordell (tamlin@algonet.se)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 16:59:42 CDT
Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
>
> Mike wrote:
> > Why is this even a problem?
[...]
> I remember at the latest GUADEC a spanish guy saying me that his main
> concert with abiword is that he can not save a file in a format readable
for
> his window's peers.
First and foremost, I'd say to him "Well, AbiWord is X-platform, and as such
you can get it at _one_ 1.39MB (1.44MB if you're a storage manufacturer)
floppy for Windows (.zip compressed, but still)! You won't get a dictionary
or theasaurus (sp?) or ..., but you will get a WP. On one floppy! (IIRC
someone told me the last office package was at three CDs!).
> I pointed him to the rtf exporter, but I don't think that a typical
"church
> secretary"[tm] will know what rtf is about if a beginner programmer, that
> it's able to use & install linux and vi doesn't knows it.
OK. Partially I agree: they _shouldn't_ have to know what RTF is. But, since
they currently have to know the differences between file formats ... It's a
problem.
> PS: Yes, I was pretty shocked by the question :-)
Me too. Especially since you got that question at GUADEC!
/Mike
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