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Hi :)
LO does "play well with others" and it's completely normal to use it
alongside a variety of specialist tools.  It is NOT meant to be used as a
1-size-fits-all ton of bloatware.

If Draw is the sticking point then perhaps introduce them to Gimp.  Gimp
doesn't do scalar vector graphics.  If that's what they need then Inkscape
is better but it's tricky to learn because it's so powerful and does things
very differently.

Gimp is comparable to Photoshop.  People who have used Photoshop a lot
sometimes have trouble because it does things slightly differently.  There
are tons of other free image editors and many of them are also OpenSource.

For heavy duty spreadsheets Gnumeric is sometimes better than Calc or Excel
and is very light on resources.  It uses the same formats as Calc.

So think of LO as part of a whole eco-system rather than a stand-alone.
Regards from
Tom :)



On 2 July 2014 07:55, Charles-H. Schulz <
charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

Hi,

On 2 juillet 2014 00:54:11 CEST, Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 17:16 +0200, Cley Faye wrote:
​Unless having a very specific corner-case,​ it is very possible that
you're not alone having this issue. It might be interesting to have
some
place to regroup funding for fixing such bugs. Kinda like
crowdfunding, but
with bug reports instead of projects.

A great idea (thanks Tom as well). In fact, I'm surprised it doesn't
already exist.

There must be a ton of people who want an improved cropping tool.

However, I can very well see this being misused with either tons of
bogus
bug report, or getting targeted as "LO is not free anymore" or
something.


Hmm not really. Bugzilla is monitored for duplocates and odd behaviours.


Maybe if it's kept outside of the main LO ecosystem? There are plenty
of
crowd-funding websites that could be used. Is this the right place to
discuss the idea?

Yes and a possible starting point would be the OpenFunding project. But
you zre focusing on the tool, not how to get to the developers. I cannot
make primises but if you were to collect enough money the Document
Foundation -who manages the LibreOffice project- would likely help.

Best,

Charles.


Maybe in your case you could mention in the bug report that you're
looking
for people that need this fixed, and can contribute toward this goal.

Good point, although I'd be worried it would be too little too slowly,
only as people come across the bug report.

Andy



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