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Ask questions to the candidates running for the GNOME Foundation elections

Submitted by vuntz on Mon, 2003-11-03 16:43. Gnome Foundation

We want the GNOME community to be involved in the GNOME Foundation, and one way to involve you is to allow you to ask questions to the candidates running for the GNOME Foundation elections. Here's your chance to know what the candidates think about what is concerning you.

Please ask one question per post (and no more). Telsa will select the 10 best questions and we'll send them to the candidates.You may want to look at last year's questions.

Update: Note that you'll still be able to directly ask questions to the candidates by posting on foundation-list.Being on the board of the GNOME Foundation is not a technical job, so please try to avoid posting questions about developement and other hacking type stuff. The GNOME Foundation charter might also be of some interest.

It's not a bug, it's a feature!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2003-11-04 18:39.

Problems I have with shoehorning OpenOffice into Gnome:

1 OO uses it's own GUI toolkit, with a different look & feel from the rest of Gnome.

2 Dialog boxes (especially the file selector) are pixel-by-pixel copies of MS Office 97. Again, it doesn't fit in.

3 The OO development team has said repeatedly they have no interest in changing GUI layout to comply with Gnome's HIG.

4 It's really, really, painfully, unbearably, deathly slow. In less than the time it takes to display OO Writer's splash screen I can open Abiword and be ready to type.

Of these, only #4 could be called a bug. The rest are design philosophy chosen by the OO dev team, and IMHO they are totally incompatible with the Gnome design philosophy. That's fine, their focus is being a cross-platform office suite, not pleasing the Gnome team, but Gnome needs an office suite that does things the Gnome way, not the Microsoft circa 1997 way.

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