Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO roadmap?

Le 2010-10-18 04:16, Cedric Bosdonnat a écrit :
> Hi Alexandro,
>
> On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 23:10 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> > I am very positive about making improvements on things like Writer, however
> > I don't know many people use the bibliographic features.  On the opposite I
> > know about many things that many users used, that could be fixed straight
> > away and improve the usability on many users.
>
> Sure, we would need to improve common problems, but I'm sure that the
> bibliographic improvements could help students and researchers to use
> LibreOffice for their work... which is currently quite hard.
>
> One of the points I see there:
>    + Use Zotero for the actual bibliographic work as it seems to be the
> most advanced tool and already has some LO integration.
>    + Tweak Writer to map Zotero fields to other bibliographic tools
> fields (mostly EndNote as it seems to be widely used)
>    + Tweak Writer to roundtrip unknown bibliographic fields (already
> contributed last week).
>    + Remove that old Bibliographic stuff that nobody uses.
>
> IMHO there could be small wins here that would help a lot of people to
> join us (or at least use LibreOffice when they weren't using OOo).
>
> > Things like being able to change the orientation of an OOo page, without
> > needing to do so many clicks and changing styles and so forth.
>
> Sure, We need some nice UI ideas here. The coding shouldn't be too
> complex as we already have the page styles.
>
> > Easily implementing the numbering of pages without also a lot of clicking.
>
> Same here.
>
> > Image orientation should also be simpler, with a better way to get it the
> > way the users want to.
>
> This one will be much more tricky as we would need to improve the Writer
> text layout... which could turn to be a nightmare. Think of all those
> strange layout cases that would bring ;)
>
> > So I guess my point is let's improve on the users most used features, and go
> > from there to build a better experience for the user.
>
> All those are needed, but we need some special care for the research
> world that has been completely left out by OOo these past years.
>
> Regards,

Thanks everyone for your remarks.

I am gathering these points on the marketing list under two different 
threads:

-- [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Academia
-- [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT 
post grad.university/college)post grad.university/college)

The intent is to gather user thoughts about usage in these two arenas. 
If we are to target these two groups, LibO could perhaps tweak the 
plugins or even the LibO core itself to suit these users.

I am interested in the process of marketing and improving the LibO suite 
for the two categories.

Feel free to contribute to these two discussions on the marketing 
mailist. I would be interested in having your comments there.

Marc

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