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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: KOffice Review: KWord
From:       Pascal Fleury <fleury () sslab ! sony ! co ! jp>
Date:       2001-07-07 13:26:55
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John Hunt wrote:

> But the point is that *you* set it up, and you already knew how GNU/Linux and
> KDE work "under the hood".  Its 6 months since I decided to free myself from
> Mikroshrott.  When things don't work in GNU/Linux, it is much more fixable
> than in Windows, *if* you know where to look.  But it is only in the past few
> weeks that my expertise has reached a level that I can usually look in the
> right place, despite spending several hours a week on 'system admin' and
> teaching myself how the system works.
>

This, by the way is the same as for Windows. My brother, father and much of the
family comes to me when something breaks in  their pre-installed Windows PCs. So
the average windows user can only go through the plain installation of an
application. When that fails (yes, it does sometimes) they do not know where to
go. My guess is that installing an RPM with kpackage or Gnorpm is as simple as
installing with a setup.exe
So from a "technical skills needed" point of view, I see them as equal.

>
> Even then it doesn't always work out.  eg I spent 3 hours yesterday evening
> trying unsuccesfully to mount a windows share as a normal user - it is ok as
> root.  (Off-topic subject, if anyone is willing to help with this, possibly
> fstab entry wrong, please contact me :-)
>

Yes, I also spent significant amounts of time to figure out this kind of things.
BUT: when the new version of Linux comes out (new kernel, new KDE, new
something), usually what you have learned in that searching time remains valid.
Once you have sort of figured out how to print a Powerpoint document onto a A4
plotter in actual A4 format (the print settings have all the options for it :-)
then you think 'great, I finally got it! [only 5 driver installations, and two
dozens reboot of 2 machines]'. The next time it does not work, all this
knowledge is for nothing, because... well...

>
> > > Have you tried importing WMF files in KIllustrator?
> >
> > a) That's almost like trying to open a wmfile with mspaint... ;)
> > b) Who uses .wmf ?
>
> But if you are migrating from Windows, you probably already have .wmf files
> that you need to be able to use, at least to convert to a different format.
>

This is a fundamental problem when switching systems or having to exchange
documents with people using another system. And this applies to WMF, Word files,
Excel, etc. But making it better than Word 6.0 -> Word 2000 conversion should
not be the most difficult task ever...

Furthermore, to be fair, this is KOffice V1.1. So this would be Word 1.1 :-) Ok,
not considering the advances in technology, and the wide-spread things like
drag&drop, embedded documents (Kparts) etc. So let's say Word 5.0 ;-O

Pascal

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