Re: [libreoffice-design] Windows 8 version?

2012/4/14 Alberto Delgado <albertoeda@gmail.com>

> I don't really think it's bad, I've been using windows 8 for a while now
> and it works perfectly on desktop, surprisingly, it works great
> even when having in mind that the system is primarily thought for tablets.
>
> I understand that working on other projects
> right now might damage the ongoing work, but you shouldn't set
> a Metro UI version aside just because you don't like it.


> Windows has an enormous amount of users, users that either don't
> like or are afraid of changing to MacOS or Linux, users that are very
> likely
> migrate to W8, also, W8 for tablets is a much more powerful OS than
> iOS or Android, specially when the user is using it for
> work (sound like your public, right?), on the other side, the PC
> version will be receiving a great amount of users soon enough,
> they won't change their mind just because it doesn't feel right for you.
>
> Whichever reason for which you don't like W8 is not enough to forget
> about the great amount of users the OS has. Again, take it from me,
> I've been using it on desktop and i can't wait to get a tablet with W8
> an OS that is not as closed as Apple's and not fragmented as Google's.
> Try it out before saying anything about it, the link to the free preview is
> in
> my original e-mail.
>
> I'm not saying you should start working on it right now, but it IS
> important
> and useful to prepare a version for Windows 8 soon.

It's easy to say, "Make a Metro version", but it's actually a really hard
task to port the suite to any platform, and here we wouldn't just have to
port it, but completely redesign every part of it.

Just like Microsoft Office, LibreOffice will work on Windows 8, even on AMD
devices if it's recompiled for the purpose. So even if we don't make a
Metro version, we will still be available for all Windows 8 users. And
because LibreOffice doesn't use the ribbon and allows you to make the
toolbar buttons bigger, it might actually be more touch-friendly than MS
Office.

Right now, it makes sense just to make LibreOffice touch-friendly, not only
for Windows, but also operating systems using Gnome Shell, Ubuntu, and
others that are trying to target both desktop and tablet users. I don't
think it would be wise to focus on Microsoft's ecosystem, the Metro part of
which is actually just as closed the Apple equivalent. If we were to make a
port to a platform other than Android/HTML, then it'd be nice if we focused
on an open platform, perhaps webOS once it becomes fully open-source.

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