[scribus] ! ;-)

[Murray Strome]

--- On Wed, 8/13/08, joseph harris <smilepoet at vfemail.net> wrote:
From: joseph harris <smilepoet at vfemail.net>
Subject: Re: [scribus] ! ;-)
To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 6:50 AM
Perhaps it explains the difference between the commercial 
approach, where useablitily is a prime concern, and open source, 
where the technical aspects absorb the interest. I repeat again 
my admiration and respect for what Scribus is and where it is 
being taken, and for the people doing it. For popularity, however, 
it has to address the facts that most people are not 
knowledgeable, and that 'one click' has massive appeal.

Joseph Harris

I think that this is a generalization that is not necessarily the case.
For example, in the area of Video Editing, both Nero and Cyberlink
offer commercial packages that are VERY difficult to use except
for the most elementary of editing tasks.  On the other hand, Open Source Cinerella
has a really nice user interface, and editing video is much easier
than with the two commercial packages mentioned*. Liquid Avid and 
Pinnacle (which is now owned by Avid) do make very good video editing
packages (Avid is used by many commercial movie and TVproducers),
but they are quite expensive.

In my opinion, the packages in OpenOffice are at least as user friendly
and easy to use as the MS equivalents. The only issue with OO is
the compatibility with MS for very complicated documents. To make
life easier for everyone, normally I exchange text type documents in
Rich Text Format (RTF) as this is understood by almost every word
processing software.

*NOTE: The version of Cinerella that I have been trying has a bug that
does make it unusable for me -- it dies immediately after it has rendered
the video without finalizing the file it was writing. I have not
had the opportunity to report this, and hope it will be fixed in
the next release when I will try it again.

Murray



      
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