I attempted to use openoffice.org base ( ms access eqiuivalent).. got the latest OOo2.2.1 everything fine...
then the troubles started-
1. while creating a table i cannot move my rows around.. everything i add comes to the bottom.
2. how to keep a password. all the help documents state it as a simple click in the save dialog and for some strange reason it DOESN'T exist.
3. i want to change the color of my report after i create it??? where do i do it.. the report edit toolbars are like pathetic. and again the help document describes a simple two click step but none of that EXISTS in my OOo base...
looks like a terrible case of version management with the documentation stuck in another world and features having disappeared to the oblivion...
worst part is these queries seem rudimentary to users in the forum who are more concerned about complicated database connectivity and sql stuff.... dude first fix how to change the color??????? if even this does not work how do u expect people to use your stuff , then whats the point of all those advanced features u keep thinking about......
this is not a crib about opensource... we face similar and often worse problems in the commercial world too... anyone who used any api would realize.... things might be carbon copies but for some strange reason they do not work... maybe thats why we need so man software engineers, so that at least one bakra from the farm has the lucky stars shining to get things working.....
day by day my belief in god and that the world is run by luck and fate and karma is increasing like the melting glaciers on the highway to everest...
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If one ever wondered why spreadsheets are so famous... because they provide just the platform and the user does whatever he wants to calculator, accounts, name lists anything he wishes.
usability is 5000x times more important than features? if this is the case of people who feel at home with CLI and config files what is the plight of ordinary hapless digitally illiterate souls out there..
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