[gobolinux-users] open office versus OO.o

[Dan]

> No, I have to agree with Rohan.  If Gobo wants to target more than  
> just hobby
> hackers, OpenOffice must be included on the CD.  If business users  
> aren't a
> high priority for Gobo -- and this may be a valid, reasonable  
> assumption --
> then OO is not necessary.  I suggest that that is the question that  
> needs to
> be addressed.

I'd vote in favor of OO.o regardless of whether Gobo seeks home or  
business users. Yes, I am primarily a hacker, but I also maintain  
design documentation, works of unbelievably bad fiction, and a  
variety of things I've done for classes or work, mostly in  
opendocument or doc format. I also often receive things in e-mail  
that are in some M$ format.

I like the level of integration Kapps give me, but KWrite's  
implementation of the doc format often gets stuff wrong, and KWrite's  
opendocument implementation, while not necessarily wrong or bad, is  
different enough that I don't often use it.

The same goes KSpread and KPresenter. I have almost no use for  
spreadsheets or presentations, but in the rare cases where I do need  
to be able to print one (most often because someone e-mailed it to  
me), those apps miss more often than not.

So, even though I'm not a business user by any stretch of the  
imagination, and I'm not even that great a fan of OpenOffice.org, I  
agree should probably be part of the Gobo base installation.

Just my €0.02