Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- An interesting UE paper Federico linked to:
cgis.cs.umd.edu. Word Processing at the top for the
"Workplace Study causes of frustration". Table 5's average
minutes lost per frustrating experience rather amusing,
and the paragraph below Table 1 In only one [ of 149 ]
frustrating experience did the user consult a manual, and in
only two experiences did the user consult on-line help.
Is it possible the concept of blocking lots of scattered UI
improvements on the availability of UE feedback, and complete,
translated on-line-help is an exacerbating factor in user
frustration ? To paraphrase mhu: Are we retarding optimising
the 98% in order to focus on the 2% ? Perhaps things changed
since 2004 though.
- Dug at mail. Encouraging chat with Michael.
Unwound various package related problems with banshee. Looking
at bying a DLP Projector for personal use to entertain people
with movies at home: needs to be at least 1024x768, so far
the Dell branded beasty seems a good price, am I missing
something ?
- Got two almost duplicate mails from people pointing
out how much OO.o release notes could be improved - hopefully
they'll put in the 30mins / month necessary to fix that.
- Spent all of the hacking morning banging away on STL,
reduced to 'trying' things: depressing, the combination of incredibly
verbose & unhelpful gcc error messages, unreadable and unhelpful
implementation, and 'meta'
documentation that prefers to dispense gems such as
"Antisymmetry is a theorem, not an axiom: it follows
from irreflexivity and transitivity." rather than concrete
samples. Having said that I was wrong wrt. binary sort - Thorsten
put me right & helped unwind some of the more evil problems,
thanks lad.
- Some particularly good news today though, after
a rather protracted hiring process (sorry lad) we got Fridrich
on board with Novell, starting 1st March, and we're looking
forward to having him bring his impressive WordPerfect filter
experience to bear on importing OpenXML. Also, hopefully it's a
sign that hacking on OO.o as a volunteer can pay off (eventually).
- Team meeting after lunch, nice to have JP to run it.
Dinner in the evening. Hacked at yast2 in some spare cycles - got
YGCheckBoxFrame implemented, so it builds again.
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the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
