Why does OpenOffice.org suck worse than MS Office?

[JD]

Me, neither.  I would recommend the OP pay us $200,000 and we'll be happy to
architect Oo into whatever we want him to think he needs, a la M$.

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Brian Beattie
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 12:59 PM
To: ttmrichter at gmail.com; Ubuntu user technical support,not for general
discussions
Subject: Re: Why does OpenOffice.org suck worse than MS Office?

I'm not sure what to make of this post, it provides insufficient
information to qualify as a bug report or enhancement request.  Nor does
it provide enough information for one to understand just what the user
did to understand where the problem lies.  Maybe this is the first time
he has used this tool and does not understand it's strengths and
weaknesses.  Since this post lacks any useful information, I guess it's
just another troll.

On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 20:03 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> So, here I am using Impress to make a presentation.  I want something
> simple: I want to play an audio file when a certain slide is loaded.
> Do you think this is possible?  Of course it isn't!  Impress requires
> you to click on the inserted object to play media of any kind.
> 
> Well, OK, so I can live with that.  It's ugly, but I've gotten used to
> ugly when using F/LOSS.  After all there's no real incentive for
> people to do the extremely hard, fiddly, unpleasant and thankless task
> of GUI design, right?  Praise doesn't exactly fill the food bowl.  But
> functionality?  That should work out of the box, right?
> 
> Hah!
> 
> Follow the instructions in the help.  Insert a media player object.
> Give it the file it's supposed to play.  Run the slide show.  Watch
> the media player object turn into a grey rectangle with absolutely no
> GUI elements whatsoever.  Clicking on it?  Well, it does what you'd
> expect -- if OO.o were written by Al Quaeda terrorists.  Hard disk
> starts to grind.  A lot.  Simple text animations ("appear") that used
> to take a fraction of a second take forever.  A slide with five line
> items now takes over three minutes to display fully.  But there's no
> sound.
> 
> So what's the trick here?  How does one actually get an Impress
> presentation to play music?  (Or, worse, to play a movie!)
> 
> -- 
> Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> (GoogleTalk:
> ttmrichter at gmail.com)
> There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
> make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the
> other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
> deficiencies. (Charles Hoare)


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