Re: [tdf-discuss] A humble critique about LO: grammar, dictionaries and basic usability

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:19 AM, timofonic timofonic <timofonic@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I wanted to reply this email, because I was having some minor
> usability issues about LibreOffice. Nothing too bad, but I wanted to
> share it with the team.
>
> I was helping my gf to do some university work, I installed her
> LibreOffice because she was used to OpenOffice and no problems to it.
> But there were some stuff was difficult to make for her, and also a
> bit to me too. I may not be a Linux guru, but I have some years of
> experience as user. Here we go:
>
> - About style and grammar checkers: I find quite confusing that they
> aren't bundled with LO itself, I need to install different packages.
> Despite this can be done easily by people used to Linux, others may
> have difficulties to find the correct package. Also, I see there are
> different extensions for different languages, yet they use Java most
> of the time (I don't consider it an adequate technology not just
> because it's by Oracle, but is a bloated dependency and may make
> things worse for slower systems). I see there are Languagetool, it
> supports lots of languages but requires java. There's lightproof,
> requires Python (it's not so efficient too) and supports too few
> languages at this moment. This feature is also bundled by default in
> Microsoft Office and lots of people use it to proofread their
> documents. There's a lack of automatically analyzing words written in
> other languages like Latin (quite used for terms), too.
>
> - About dictionary: Are dictionaries so big to make them bundled by
> default? Why not include them? Also, there were a lot of missing words
> in the Spanish dictionary and some lack of understanding about able to
> write compound words in both ways (f.ex. psico-social and
> psicosocial).
>
> - About page enumeration: While I agree showing advanced options is a
> plus, stuff like this is somewhat messy and confusing. Seriously, I
> had to check a few tutorials to find a correct way to avoid page
> enumeration to the first pages of a document and I had some issues
> replicating it later. It's difficult to remember it and it seems I got
> confused with page style or something like that (I can provide further
> details if needed).
>
> I just wanted to share my opinion to others, maybe I'm wrong at it in
> some way. But at least I tried to contribute a bit :)
>
> Regards.
>
> (Sorry for my bad English)


Thank you for your feedback. We're always looking to improve LibreOffice
for you all (the users). We'll get a good healthy discussion about your
points and see if there is any consensus about solutions :)


Best Regards,
Joel

-- 
*Joel Madero*
LibreOffice QA Volunteer
jmadero.dev@gmail.com

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