We did a trial run of Open Source apps for 2 weeks with 40 users across multiple geographies that volunteered for it. And it were minor issues like these that made 34 of them not support it. Large amount of feedback was "Can not do X with Calc"/. In reality functionality X was available but not at the place where users expected. None of the users was from IT.
E.g. on Calc "I could not set Time series interval on X axis to week". Or "Individual formatting for multiple series on X axis does not work"
It is sad, but the fact is Exchange/SharePoint/Excel/PowerPoint/Outlook is de-facto setup for most business with 2000 or more desktops. If migration to any tool "makes them think", most users would appose it.
On positive side, 27 users were happy with Writer.
I believe for small companies (100 or fewer users) , migration should be easier. Since they would not have Sharepoint+Exchange baggage. Sharepoint+Exchange makes end user's tasks easier, but makes it difficult to introduce something other then Outlook or Office.
OTOH, one large company (IBM) has decided to use open source stack as far as possible. Lets see how it goes.
When I started in IT, Lotus notes stack (Email/document management/IM) was de-facto standard. Now, it is Microsoft stack.
Hopefully in next 10 years it would be some open source stack.
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Saswata Banerjee & Associates < scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com> wrote:
On 19-Jul-2010, at 12:17 AM, Shamit Verma wrote:
scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
Using page up and page down buttons instead of arrow buttons is more
sensible. I dont see why anyone will not want to use OO for this. In fact, the transition methodology on OO makes a lot of sense (I use
only
OO since i use a mac and dont intend to buy MS Office on mac).
- For slide show, both page up / down and arrow keys work
- for Normal mode, arrow keys is to navigate within a slide (from one
row
to another and for horizontal movement) while page up and down is specifically for moving to the next slide. This way, you dont accidentally move to the next slide when all you
meant
to do was to go to the next line to change something.
It should be straightforward. On down arrow; If user is on last position
in
current slide, move to next slide, else move to next line. Similar for up arrow.
I dont think its a serious enough matter. If you know you have to use Page up / Down, so be it. What real difference does it make ?