Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-users] AOO for Android - not worth the download

On 06/22/2013 06:18 PM, Toki Kantoor wrote:
> On 06/22/2013 04:58 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>
> > > What type of features and options are really needed, or
> People replaced their desktop with a laptop.  Now they are replacing
> their laptop with a tablet.  So whatever you used to do on a desktop, or
> laptop, will be done on a tablet.

I hear many kids telling their parents that all the need is a tablet for 
school now - college.

Well have you ever tried typing a long paper with foot notes and 
graphics on a tablet, even the high end ones?  I do not know how someone 
can thing about doing the standard 10 finger typing, like you are taught 
to do on a desktop/laptop, on a tablet 7,9,or 10 inch ones.

I know that people use to buy the 10 inch screen netbooks/notebook style 
laptops and they did not like using the small screen and small keyboard 
for extended typing.  I do not like to do a lot of typing on my laptop's 
keyboard.

Then you need to use the more powerful document editors, like LO, for 
your college papers.

After getting 3 degrees, I would never use a tablet as my only device.  
You need the power and storage of a laptop or desktop to do the work.

Sure, the high end tablets, and now the Win8 tablets, have a market, but 
I would not say that everything I want to do can be done on a tablet.  
Just the USB input/output devices are not going to be accessible on most 
tablets.  Of course I have 5 TB [1,2,2] internal to my desktop and 4TB 
external [USB drives] that I use.  No tablet will have the type of 
storage internal to it, for the foreseeable future.

So do not think a tablet will replace my desktops or laptops.  I have 
not seen any advertised that will.

> > > But what editing options will you need?
> The biggest point of failure of EuroOffice, is that it makes no
> provision for styles. To me, that is a failure on a par with the mean
> time of 15 seconds from starting MSO, to seeing the Blue Screen of Death.

15 seconds startup for MSO???  Last time I used it it took 30 to 60 
seconds, at least, to load MSO to the point where I could start typing 
or editing.  That was on a mid-range CPU speed system.

> > This is a little confusing to me. You mention LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice for Android, but as 
> > far as I know there is no Apache OpenOffice for Android,
> The description matches AndrOffice, which is a port of Apache OpenOffice
> to Android.
>
> jonathon

Yes, I downloaded and tried, failed that is, that port of AOO.  LO is 
working on a port to Android, which is still in early Alpha stage.  So 
my original post was stating some things I wanted to mentioned that LO 
for Android should learn from the problems I had with the AOO for 
Android port.  The big one was it would not allow me to do anything even 
after 5 minutes of waiting.





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