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I never understood why I couldn't find an OO fork that trimmed all the fat, took a "Google approach", and tried to be really good at basic word processing. This
by mayank 16y ago
I never understood why I couldn't find an OO fork that trimmed all the fat, took a "Google approach", and tried to be really good at basic word processing. This includes elements like an uncluttered UI, responsiveness of pagination, collaborative editing, better fonts and design templates, maybe even web storage integration. Think college students and their needs, as a way of feeding into the next generation. Instead, we always have something that feels like poor man's Word.
IMO, this is one area where startup developers could have helped the desktop software movement by developing something that served the basic needs of a large crop of word processing users everywhere. Leave Word for the people that need mail merge or whatever.
- Hoff 16y agoWhy? Because different folks tend to want different subsets with their tools. This then leads to the existence of different tools for different folks, of different UIs, and (particularly for gonzo-class tools such as Microsoft Office) various attempts at progressive disclosure and adaptive UIs. Watch how somebody else uses Office or any other complex software; the options and knobs and paths and such can be wildly different. If you can generalize and also isolate something specific from all the different use models (and figure out how to make money between Google Tools and open source tools and Office and such), then yes, you've potentially got something. It'll probably be domain specific, though...
- colig 16y agoAbiword?