OOoCON 2006: what's next for OpenOffice.org
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| henke54 Sep 25, 2006 10:03 AM EDT |
http://www.libervis.com/blogs/5/charles/ooocon_2006_whats_ne... |
| peragrin Sep 25, 2006 11:49 AM EDT |
personally I would rather have an ODF plugin for firefox for a read only ODF documents in a web page. sort of like the PDF plugins. Open Office though is in need of a major rewrite. It's almost as bad as Xfree86 was. At least the people are nicer. |
| jimf Sep 25, 2006 12:38 PM EDT |
> Open Office though is in need of a major rewrite. It's almost as bad as Xfree86 was. At least the people are nicer. I have to agree with that assessment. It also needs a major interface re-design. Right now, It's inefficient and butt ugly. Plugins can wait. |
| dcparris Sep 25, 2006 1:11 PM EDT |
I still prefer the old 5.2 integrated interface. I actually preferred that level of integration, but that's just me. |
| jimf Sep 25, 2006 1:48 PM EDT |
> but that's just me. Maybe not, I hear the same from a lot of people. I',m now using Abiword for most of my new documents for exactly that reason. Still, I find I occasionally need something from OO, so I still have a copy on the machine :( |
| tuxchick2 Sep 25, 2006 2:24 PM EDT |
I guess I'm the oddball. I think OOo, despite its stupid name, is a powerhouse than run rings around ms office, and especially ms word. It has a different way of doing things, and the documentation and forums aren't exactly helpful, but there are a couple of excellent books out in dead-tree land. My one wish is a modular installation- why should a user have to download the entire suite when they only want a word processor, or a spreadsheet, or whatever. And I still hate Java. |
| jimf Sep 25, 2006 2:36 PM EDT |
> is a powerhouse than run rings around ms office, and especially ms word. For what it's worth, I wouldn't dispute that... Feeble praise indeed. |
| dcparris Sep 25, 2006 2:40 PM EDT |
Having published a book in OOo, I definitely prefer it to MSO. Between paragraph and character styles, and the document navigator, I'm a pretty big OOo fan. Wouldn't complain if it did load a little faster, but load speed is not my big complaint. Just give me back my old interface. :-) |
| tuxchick2 Sep 25, 2006 3:51 PM EDT |
Why? Your old interface sucks. /runs away fast |
| jimf Sep 25, 2006 4:09 PM EDT |
Lol, with minor changes in Linux history, we might all be running WordPerfect... |
| dcparris Sep 25, 2006 7:22 PM EDT |
TC: :-D jimf: You might just have a point there. I might still be sold on WordPerfect, too. Who knows? Not now, of course. |
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