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Re: The art of being user friendly...

Rhakios — Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:43 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:43 pm

Marrea wrote:

We women will always try to wriggle out of anything!

I am not, repeat not, going to deliberately try to misconstrue that statement.

Re: The art of being user friendly...

Marrea — Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:53 pm

Author: Marrea

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:53 pm

We women will always try to wriggle out of anything!

Re: The art of being user friendly...

Rhakios — Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:42 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:42 pm

If you like, I'm not picky

Re: The art of being user friendly...

Marrea — Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:39 pm

Author: Marrea

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:39 pm

Rhakios wrote:

I decline to accept responsibility on that score. I was merely commenting on how much more user friendly Vista becomes with a little Cygwin on it.

I suppose I can't get away with the argument that I was merely commenting on the user friendliness of PowerPoint v. Impress?

Re: The art of being user friendly...

Rhakios — Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:36 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 1:36 pm

Eh?

Re: The art of being user friendly...

Dutch_Master — Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:48 pm

Author: Dutch_Master

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:48 pm

You mean *under* it (vi$ta on top of Linux+Cygwin )

Re: The art of being user friendly...

Rhakios — Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:31 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:31 pm

Marrea wrote:

Have you noticed how once again I have neatly gone OT? What begins as derisory comments about how hard it is to get MS software out of its box suddenly turns into a comparison between MS Office and OOo. However, this time you started it with cygwin.

I decline to accept responsibility on that score. I was merely commenting on how much more user friendly Vista becomes with a little Cygwin on it.

Re: The art of being user friendly...

Marrea — Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:58 am

Author: Marrea

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:58 am

We probably didn't tick the option to be notified of automatic updates at the time we installed 2.0.

We've now downloaded and installed version 2.3 (good job our broadband is working today!) and have opted to be informed about updates, but I still can't find the relevant setting and I've just come across these statements in an online shootout between PowerPoint 2007 and Impress 2.3:

"However, Impress continues to lag because of its inability to control the playing of sound across a series of slides, or to record a narration directly from the program.. "

"Impress is advancing neither as far nor as fast as might be expected. Most significantly, despite some improvements, it continues to lag behind in its use of sound."

So it rather looks as if we will not be able to do what we want to do.

Have you noticed how once again I have neatly gone OT? What begins as derisory comments about how hard it is to get MS software out of its box suddenly turns into a comparison between MS Office and OOo. However, this time you started it with cygwin.

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: The art of being user friendly..

Rhakios — Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:29 am

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:29 am

Don't you get a green downward pointing arrow in the top right hand corner of an OOo window when there is a new version available for download?
I'd seen such a thing in the screen grabs in the LXF OOo special and wondered what it did, when I saw the same thing on my Vista install of OOo I clicked on it and found out that it was notifying me of a newer version being available.

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: The art of being user friendly...

Marrea — Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:21 am

Author: Marrea

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:21 am

Rhakios wrote:

The art of being user friendly?

I've just been going round and round OOo's Impress on my husband's Windows machine looking for the setting to play a music file continuously throughout a whole slide show - in the same way I can on my PowerPoint. Having now done some googling I discover the OOo version he has is 2.0 and you can't do what we want to do unless you have 2.3 - so we are busy downloading that version now. If I'd known that, I wouldn't have wasted half of this morning searching around for something which wasn't there anyway.

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: The art of being user friendly...

Rhakios — Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm

The art of being user friendly? Install cygwin. Vista seems at least halfway usable, at last <insert sighing smiley>

Re: RE: Re: RE: The art of being user friendly...

Marrea — Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:47 pm

Author: Marrea

Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:47 pm

JS wrote:

Maybe they think the average person wishing to install Vista needs that level of instructions...

Hmm, the thing is though that the average person will never install Vista because the average person will always buy their computer with it pre-installed.

RE: The art of being user friendly...

wyliecoyoteuk — Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:30 pm

Author: wyliecoyoteuk

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:30 pm

Received an Irex Iliad today, opend it up powered on and started to read the PDF Manual, which started with "how to switch on your Iliad"

RE: The art of being user friendly...

Rhakios — Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:43 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 7:43 pm

Probably. I understand that PCWorld will now send some people over to unpack and set up your new PC for you. If you're short on brains and have deep pockets.

RE: The art of being user friendly...

Diagmato — Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:57 pm

Author: Diagmato

Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:57 pm

If someone cant work out how to open a Vista package, then how on earth did they unpack their computer in the first place! Unless they called the "tech guys" from PC World to come and do it for them.