[Usability] Re: Default document formats

[michael chang <thenewme91 gmail com>]

On 9/22/05, usability-request gnome org <usability-request gnome org> wrote:

> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:30:18 +0100 (BST)
> From: Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Default document formats
> To: Vidar Braut Haarr <vhaarr+usability gmail com>
> Cc: usability gnome org
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> --- Vidar Braut Haarr <vhaarr+usability gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > You didn't read the manual, I didn't read the
> > manual.
> > Noone reads the manual.
>
> Actually, I do read the manual :)
> Maybe not from cover to cover, but I do frequently

Actually, I read the manual from cover to cover.  However, no one I
know does.  But I can't help them when their computer goes kaboom if
the manual isn't 200 pages, explaining how to solve all the problems;
which means if something goes wrong I have to read the code, which I
can't which means I have to go to someone who can, which is probably a
GNOME coder.  So, yeah.

That said, you should tell all the people who package the software to
put this as a configurable option of HIGHEST PRIORITY (meaning always
show the question) and then after that, explain what's wrong.

Besides, we're supposed to try and get M$ to convert and read open
formats.  Hey, you never know.  It *could* happen.

[And if you default to M$ Word format, then people are going to all
start complaining, "hey, why is it that x, y, z, and a, b, and c
always dissapear when I save and re-open?" because Word format doesn't
have output modes for all the functionalities in Abiword/OOo.]

--
~Mike
 - Just my two cents
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