Add OO basic documentation to the default install

[Arand Nash]

MÁTÉ Gergely wrote:
> 2010-05-16 13:27 keltezéssel, Shane Fagan írta:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I forgot to mention this at the session for default app selection but
>> can we remove Open Office Draw from the default ubuntu install? The
>> reasons are quite obvious it just isnt any good ...
>>   
> Hi,
> 
> we use OpenOffice.org Draw in a production environment for importing and
> editing PDF documents (we do localization of product descriptions in
> print quality catalogs with it).
> 
> With the recently added anti-aliasing support for embedded bitmap
> images, Draw is nearly as capable as - for example - the proprietary
> CorelDraw application.
> 
> There is a single reason most people think it just isn't good: people do
> not know about it's capabilities, and neither know how to use it. You
> can do very sophisticated things if you spend some time to learn it.
> 
> I suggest that a PDF version of the official Getting Started Guide
> (http://documentation.openoffice.org/) be included in the default
> install of Ubuntu, to empower new users, probably in the Examples
> directory. OpenOffice.org is only powerful if you know how to use it.
> 
> Regards,
> Gergely Máté
> http://gergely.sportember.eu
> 
> 
> 
> 

As a nearly 6MB document it's probably unlikely to make it onto the CD 
(current example-content is 9MB total, including 
Ubuntu_Free_Culture_Showcase), and there is already documentation 
included in OO.org.
But as a link from within the OO.org application, maybe? (A change like 
that should come from upstream though, I guess?)

I don't think it would solve the core problem though, that Draw is 
(similar to GIMP), geared towards a more "professional audience" and 
hence slightly unfit for being in a default install for everyone (simply 
going by the criteria for removing GIMP earlier [I didn't agree with it, 
but that's a whole 'nother thing]).

Although, as previously stated, if it's pretty much monolitically 
affixed to the rest of OO.org it's likely going to stick around for a 
while I guess (until goffice has an impress equivalent?, until main 
ubuntu goes the same route as NBE?)

--
Arand