Do we really need LibreOffice installed by default?

Ryan Lerch rlerch at redhat.com
Wed Sep 17 15:36:05 UTC 2014


On 09/17/2014 10:29 AM, Elad Alfassa wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:08 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org 
> <mailto:duffy at fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     On 09/16/2014 12:18 PM, Ryan Lerch wrote:
>
>         The ease of finding and installing an office suite when there
>         isn't one
>         installed by default would be something that would make a
>         great user
>         test scenario before yanking libreoffice.
>
>
>         Both the scenarios of opening an exisiting file, and trying to
>         create a
>         document -- some of the things to consider could be:
>         * what people search for -- (do all users use "Word
>         Processor", or just
>         "Word") 
>
>         * if they search for a word processor in Software, does LO
>         show up as a
>         "best bet" or do other applications like abiword or calligra
>         show up? --
>         a default here may help the user because they are getting the
>         software
>         that may be considered "the best"
>
>
> Searching for "word" lists mostly unrelevant stuff at the top of the 
> list, but that's an easy fix - LibreOffice just needs to add "word" as 
> a keyword in the desktop file or appdata.

This is why I suggested doing user tests to try to figure out some of 
these kinks (if we remove LO from the default). Testing will help to 
show us how people attempt to solve the issue of not having a office 
suite installed by default.

regards,
ryanlerch
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