Bug#965235: libreoffice: “Personal Edition”, WTF‽
forwarded 965235 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134486
tag 965235 + upstream
thanks
[ I actually excpected a bug report like this earlier, not only after >
1 week ;-) ]
Hi,
Am 18.07.20 um 00:01 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
> LibreOffice 7 presents itself proudly, in its splash screen,
Which is only shown a few (milli)seconds and can trivially be disabled
in the config ;-)
> and in the bottom-left corner of the start centre, as…
>
> Personal Edition
OK, this is annoying but can simply be avoided by not using the
startcenter and starting the correct application in the first place ;-)
> … and the About dialogue says:
>
> The Personal edition is supported by volunteers and
> intended for individual use.
Which is "hidden" unless you explicitely look at it.
So IMHO not a big deal.
When I first saw
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-7-0-0&id=fd94276fbbd3632b2241133900b995d75f9b14fc
I immediately started a discussion on IRC. Flames aside, we came up with
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?h=libreoffice-7-0-0&id=5a782225adc069a9b39986f7ced37eb78e542ae3
so it's already not as a big thing it was initially.
That "Personal Edition" in the title bar indeed would be unacceptable.
> Does this mean a charity, company, etc. is supposed to not use
> LibreOffice? (S(n)ide remarks in the direction of other text
> formatting suites aside.)
From the disscussion on IRC this seems to be a part of a marketing plan
with what they want to gently nudge companies to pay $s or €s or so to
"support" the ecosystem ;-( Not a big problem per se, IMHO.
Just "Personal" is bad, in the same discussion above i suggested
"Community edition" which Michael didn't want.
> Does such a remark even belong into Debian (even if it’s in upstream)?
> If it doesn’t apply, maybe a patch to not show it might be sensible.
No, I am not going to patch this, as much as I don't like this either.
If at all, one can disable the Startcenter in .desktop files so people
won't actually see it most of the time unless they start with
"libreoffice" :-)
Anyways, there is:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/07/06/board-statement-on-the-libreoffice-7-0rc-personal-edition-label/
and
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/07/09/marketing-plan-draft-discussion-about-options-available-and-timetable/
(which sounds like "Community Edition" might be the outcome after all)
Regards,
Rene
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