Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: docx format troubles

Hi :)
I think everyone on this list, even a fresh & 'clueless' noob, is in the top 10%.  The very fact of 
knowing about and trying LibreOffice puts people in a very exclusive top percentage of office 
'geeks'.  

Apparently it would not be trivial to remove features and  make  add-ons/extensions to add back 
that functionality if required.  Even on low-spec machines there probably wouldn't be a dramatic 
increase in performance and it might complicate things too much.  
Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Sun, 18/9/11, Tim Deaton <tim@timdeaton.org> wrote:

From: Tim Deaton <tim@timdeaton.org>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: docx format troubles
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 18 September, 2011, 3:13

It's very true that 80% of people only use 20% of the program.  The 
problem is that my 20% is not your 20%.  Now, if you could do in-depth 
tracking of thousands of random users, you might be able to isolate a 
certain set of features that almost nobody uses.  Then those features 
could be removed if doing so would make enough difference (in 
performance or in resources used) to make it worth the effort.

-- Tim Deaton



On 9/17/2011 8:40 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I really like that idea a lot but i have been told it's unfeasable.  Even if we could clearly 
> identify that 20% it would be tricky to slim the apps down that way.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Sat, 17/9/11, David B Teague sr<davidbteague@comporium.net>  wrote:
>
> From: David B Teague sr<davidbteague@comporium.net>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: docx format troubles
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Saturday, 17 September, 2011, 13:30
>
> On 9/16/2011 6:56 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > If you were able to ring-fence about 20% of the features of MS Office then about 80% of users 
> > never stray outside that.  From what i see it's more like about 100% of users.  Most users don't 
> > even use all of that 20%.
> I hope this isn't hijacking the thread, and if so, /please /say so, and I'll repost this in a new 
> thread.
>
> The fact that 20% of the features of MS Office (and by implication, LO and OO.o) used almost 
> exclusively by some 80% of the users suggests to me that OO.o should identify that 20% of 
> features and modularize OO.o or LO or what have you to include that 20% and make the other 80% of 
> the features available as extensions.
>
> I'd like comments on this idea.
>
> David Teague
>
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