Re: [libreoffice-design] Agenda for the design/UX meeting 2019-Feb-06 (Wed)

Just to mention that Microsoft Access (the equivalent to Base) is barely
used in the professional world.
Usually companies use Excel and connect it to MySQL or apps like PowerBI
depending on the purpose.

On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 9:40 AM Heiko Tietze <tietze.heiko@gmail.com> wrote:

> While the idea of the Notebookbar is exactly this, to provide completely
> different UIs, I doubt we can make Base "a variant of Calc“. But you are
> very welcome to draft the idea or implement yourself (should be possible
> for everyone who uses mailing lists).
>
> > Am 07.02.2019 um 21:26 schrieb Miguel Mayol <mitcoes@gmail.com>:
> >
> > I had today a idea i think is a very good one:
> >
> > One interface option - better if it is the default one - in LO BASE
> equal to the CALC one
> > The reason is that people are using EXCEL for databases
> > because they do not know
> > because they have the cheaper version of MSO without Access
> > and because they think it is "easier"
> >
> > Doing this and a promo viral video that shows that it is
> > - as easy as a spreadsheet to insert  and show data
> > - and as powerful as a database to deal with it,
> > especially addressed to university professors and PhD students, probably
> would increase a lot the use of BASE in substitution of MS Excel for
> managing databases, and the use of other components of LibreOffice.
> > I went to bugzilla, but I was not able to log in, so sorry, but as I
> only collaborate with suggestions, I did not want this one that I think is
> great, and probably very easy to implement, to pass by.
> > I remembered an old database named FileMaker that  was very easy to use
> because it had a interface near to what a spreadsheet is.
>
>
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