Survey: What aspects are important to you?
Being an open source product is one of the pillars of LibreOffice. Technically, that means the source code is available with a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. The goal is to improve security, affordability, and transparency, among others, but also to involve the community (like in this survey) and to allow work cooperatively on a project.
Open source software powers nearly all of our modern society and economy. Understanding the people who not only build and maintain but also use these projects is important to anyone concerned about the sustainability of open source. So we want to know how important some aspects of LibreOffice are to you.
https://survey.documentfoundation.org/783768
The survey is available in Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish (many thanks to the localization team!).
Please spread the word so that we get enough data for the analysis.
Hi!
Thanks for surveying!
Some questions may get several answers where there’s only one possible:
— what is your Os? What if I use — on a daily basis and on equal importance — several? Which one should I pick?
A question is not translated into French:
— For how many years are you a user of LibreOffice and its predecessor?
(in English, I guess it should read as “how long have you been a user…”)
In FR: “Depuis combien de temps utilisez-vous LibreOffice ou son prédécesseur ?”
BTW, why not name the said “predecessor”? Is it shameful?
Some questions are stumbling (replicability, transparency): do the project intend to drop them? These questions are… well… questionable.
Last point: the target audience of this survey is unclear and its results will be impacted according to the respondants categories. IOW, if I answer as a home user (which I am) or as a business user (which I am, too) or as a business consultant (which I am, also) or as an office automation professional trainer (which I am, as well), the answers will be different (eg: wrt the cost point of view, 1st question).
I’m really unsure whether the answers will help you if you can’t guess who’s answering.
All the best,
—
Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux (France)
>what is your Os?
I’d pick the one where I use primarily for LibO. Another question came up regarding the version from people who intentionally stay with 5.1 (or even 4.x). Would have been nice if the review was done before ;-).
>Some questions are stumbling… target audience of this survey is unclear… I’m really unsure whether the answers will help you if you can’t guess who’s answering.
Added the explanation for this purpose. Hopefully the reasoning behind the survey will become more clear in the discussion of results.
Thanks for the French translation. Updated the question accordingly.
Bonjour,
Je serais incapable de répondre à une telle question tant cela et ancien ! probablement une quinzaine d’année (open office….)
Mon système est linux Ubuntu. La dernière LTS sur mon ordinateur de travail et la toute dernière version sur ma machine à domicile.
I’d like to see base developed more. I need to replace lotus Approach and base is
not there yet.
Thanks for the survey.
Some notes:
* The question on OS used should really have been a multi response question.
* The German translation of the “security” question is not really perfect. It gives a hint that security is also about data loss in general, but in the English version it rather means data loss to another person (who might misuse the data).
* The answer categories of contributions to the project are not really comprehensive: Things like editing wiki content, contributing templates and extensions, writing other documentation, etc. are missing.
i will reply here, since the pool didnt had the question.
stability, security and speed are important to anyone, but if i want code those, i can just write an empty plain text file, and i will have unlimited speed, stability and security on it.
that is useless.
being backward compatible with it self is important, but reverse enginering other files formats, takes time that could be used add’ing new features.
the features that i’m missing from MS Office is the smart art features with a bunch of charts like Organizational Chart.
i dont need all of those options, only a few (like the one afore mentioned)
speed you can solve by buying an more powerfull hardware, the current stability is good enough, never crashed with me, and security holes are hard to spot and only cause problems when there is an big marketshare, or high profile customers.
but not having the features, that is a deal breaker.
compatibility with ms-office, especailly word.
1. Would love recording of macros in LibreOffice:
a) To be enabled by default; and
b) To produce concise, clean and human readable code. At the moment Macro Recording is experimental and produces verbose code. Try recording a simple macro in Excel and to the same recording in Calc. Look at the code to see the difference.
2. Use more than one operating system. Would it be better to have multiple options available?
3. Would have also been nice if the survey had an area for open ended responses.
Thank you
Please make the Equation Editor based on LaTeX.
Currently it is in very bad shape compared to Word.
The most important part to me are:
1) using libreoffice draw as substitute of Microsoft Visio, as much it can be done for now.
SUGGESTION: It will be great if we could make canvas shape size of LODraw as ‘infinite’ like in MS Visio and dia. And most importantly, if we could select a region in LODraw and we could take printout of that region only in full A4 page say.
2) Suggestion: Really please make the equaation editor understand Latex syntax
Improve Graphical Interface, too oldfashioned.
It lacks a portuguese version so that I could share it on my Facebook page.
Bonjour à toutes et à tous,
Je suis retraité (ingénieur bonnes notions d’informatique) et par loisir je me suis intéressé la programmation des macros en basic sous OpenOffice. Je m’intéresse à présent à LibreOffice, et je cherche le moyen de rentrer en contact avec des compétences pour m’aider à conclure un petit projet d’extension baptisé “Lettre à Fenêtre” que j’ai déjà posté sur le forum ooo-forum. Vue l’enthousiasme générale que j’ai rencontré jusque là, je me tourne vers vous pour au moins l’examiner le tester et éventuellement le publier… J’ai également d’autres projets sous le coude…
Quelqu’un peut-il me guider ?
Bonjour,
vous pouvez vous adresser à l’une des listes de discussion de LibreOffice.
Regardez ici :
http://fr.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/
Très cordialement
Hello to all,
I retired (engineer good knowledge of computer science) and by leisure I am interested programming macros in basic under OpenOffice. I am now interested in LibreOffice and I’m looking for a way to get in touch with skills to help me conclude a small extension project called “Letter to window” I already posted on the ooo forum. View the general enthusiasm that I met down there, I turn to you to at least consider test and possibly publish it… I have other projects under the elbow…
Can someone guide me
LibreOffice has several places for support. Your question sounds much like https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questions/ (first level support basically about how to use the program) but when it goes into detail you also get answers at the developers mailing list https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
In any case you should be more specific with your question ;-).
Good Luck!
OK Thank you
As Heiko mentioned, LibreOffice has a vibrant community eager to help you. The main channels of support for development are libreoffice-dev mailing list mentioned above as well as the IRC support channel available at https://freenode.net on channel #libreoffice-dev, for more interactive help.
I suggest you shoot an e-mail describing your specific request for help to libreoffice-dev and continue from there. The Wiki is also a good place to start digging for information:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GetInvolved
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BASIC
Best Regards!
_Hello to all,
I retired (engineer good knowledge of computer science) and by leisure I am interested programming macros in basic under OpenOffice. I am now interested in LibreOffice and I’m looking for a way to get in touch with skills to help me conclude a small extension project called “Letter to window” I already posted on the ooo forum. View the general enthusiasm that I met down there, I turn to you to at least consider test and possibly publish it… I have other projects under the elbow…
Can someone guide me
Each of us is important for different aspects, because it is dictated by our way of life and the fact that we have different opinions and priorities.