Bug#484121: tasksel: let's sync on the GNOME task

Otavio Salvador otavio at debian.org
Tue Jun 3 13:24:56 UTC 2008


Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> writes:

>> Beginners expect to be able to open all the microsoft documents they get
>> and have them work well, and have an uber-bloated word processor that
>> looks similar to the MS tools, which is why everyone uses OOo. 
>
> It does not prevent us from shipping a better integrated word processor,
> while setting OOo as the default handler for .doc files (currently it is
> not, but I can easily change that).

I think providing multiple alternatives for same task confuses the user.

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