[libreoffice-users] evolution

Yes Wayne,

But you know as well as I do that simply following the leader or blindly
following someone else's ideas is no substitute for thinking.
Otherwise there would be no evolution only extinction.
Could you give us readers a quick list of other short term "species" that
never survived past MS. Like office dog for example.

Two of my favourite expressions:-
1:      It's amazing how the youth of today are so eager to instil upon
their elders the benefit of their inexperience.
2:      It's sad how the elders of today are so reluctant to entertain the
fresh ideas of their children.

By the way, my first desktop machine was an old cpm machine and I'm sure it
had no numbers but it did have an external 256k RAM drive and two 10 inch
floppies. The operating system was compiled by a guy calling himself "Micro
Pete".
my programing path is:- machine code (in industrial switching applications)
to assembler to Fortran to C to Cobol to basic to c++ to gw basic to qbasic
to vb to visual c++ to dot net basic to c#. Along the way, add sql, aspx,
MONO, 4GL, Delphi and a few mainframe scripting languages like REX that I
can't remember a thing about.
(funny how so many were MS languages. Must have had something to do with
industry demands at the time.) 

Because I'm at work and using MS outlook 2010, I'll send this as soon as I
can find where they have hidden the bl&#@*y spell checker.

And as a student of anthropology, I also liked your evolution theory. :-)
Keep up the good work in making people think. Challenging the norm.
  
Bruce Carlson.


-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Borean [mailto:wborean@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, 18 April 2011 12:06 PM
To: users@libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] question

Ah, but the Ribbon menu is important. It's another evolutionary option for
the interface. Whether you like it or not is to a certain extent a matter of
taste. Quite frankly I hated using a GUI for a long time. It slowed me down
too much. It still does slow me down in some ways, a command line is more
efficient IF YOU KNOW THE SYSTEM WELL.

If you don't, a GUI is easier.

And some of it is simply a matter of taste. If you grew up with curry on
your food, it won't taste right without it.

Wayne



On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Bruce Carlson
<bruce@grahamgroup.com.au>wrote:

> Yes I can understand how you, thinking that you are younger, feeling 
> like you are mature, and all the time it is your inexperience that is 
> restricting you to see only what is put in front of you and you are 
> unable to use logic to put together all that surrounds you so 
> therefore you, as are many other Y generationalists, (but not all), 
> willing to accept only what you are told and unable to think outside the
square you are ordered to live in.
> To be honest with us and with yourself, if the reason you will not use 
> LO is because you will only use an office suite if has ribbon button 
> menus than you are the exact petty minded person that Microsoft relies 
> on for it's future profits.
>
>
> Bruce Carlson
> an X gernerationalist.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Csenger Attila Szabó [mailto:csenger41@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 April 2011 6:06 PM
> To: users@libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] question
>
> OK, in my case, the only reason why I DON'T use LO is the lack of ribbon.
> I accept that not everyone likes that, that's why I wrote the idea of 
> an extensions or plugin. So those who like the ribbon would be able to use
it.
> @Bruce: I have to disagree with you, I find the ribbon much faster and 
> easier to use. And I'm not the only one, many of the people around, 
> especially the younger ones find much more useful the ribbon than the 
> dropdown menus.
> I know that those who get used to the menu-style won't like any other 
> solution, but you are not the only ones.
> So what about the plugin/extension thing?
>
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