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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Question about your KPresenter's review
From:       "Eric S. Raymond" <esr () thyrsus ! com>
Date:       2002-02-21 1:21:19
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Reflected because Cathy has DNS troubles.

On Tuesday 19 February 2002 10:31 pm, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2002 07:14 pm, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> > On Saturday 09 February 2002 19:34, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > |   Toshitaka Fujioka <toshitaka@kde.gr.jp>:
> > |
> > |
> > |
> > |   because you have to be respectful of the end-user's time and limited
> > |   attention span.  Cathy is not a geek; she has more important things
> > | to do than pick her way though that ugly jumble.
> >
> > So, buy her a Mac - and that's it.
> >
> > Why Cathy bother to use KDE in this case?
>
> Two reasons:  1.  I share Eric's dream of wanting to see genuine Linux/open
> source alternatives to MS Office and related closed source products.
>
> 2.  My law office still uses Windows.  Because I sometimes work at home,
> any machine I use at home must be able to understand and edit MS Word
> documents. Neither Eric nor I know much about Mac software.   Neither of us
> knows whether there are any Mac programs that can edit Word documents, let
> alone would be able to troubleshoot Mac programs that claimed they could
> edit Word documents.
>
> > |   About 70% of KPresenter is unusable to Cathy because it's not
> > | documented. The remaining 30% is much harder to use than it ought to be
> > | because it's not documented.
> >
> > May be Cathy should improove her Learning Skills in this case?..
> > No offense, just an advise.
>
> However, I wasn't the only one who had problems with KPresenter; both Rob
> Landley and Eric encountered difficulties in using it.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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