Merging feature/commonsallayout branch

[Yousuf Philips]

On 10/20/2016 11:07 AM, Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> Is there any reason to believe that those clueless people who hold on to
> it will change their mind in any significant number by the time LO 5.4
> comes out? Or LO 5.5? They will hold on to it as long as the machine
> keeps working.

You know the saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", and most people 
dont consider XP broke (me included) even if MS isnt officially 
supporting it. XP is a lighter weight OS, so many people wont upgrade 
because their hardware cant handle it. On the other hand, you still have 
governments paying microsoft to still support it XP, so XP isnt going 
away anytime soon.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/london-metropolitan-police-windows-xp-updates/
http://bgr.com/2015/06/24/windows-xp-support-us-navy-millions/

There are a number of Mac users who arent above OS X 10.8 for various 
reasons, but as LO's Mac user base isnt as large as Windows, dropping 
the support there in favour of a better toolchain and functionality does 
make sense.

> But yeah, I know, the hardest thing in the FLOSS world is taking
> decisions that might annoy somebody.

Users will always be annoyed with things changing, even if it is for the 
better.

> --tml

Yousuf