On 2/7/10, Ian <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 22:12 +0200, Lars Nooden wrote: > > Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > > Well a simple google search will give you many posts about it. > > > > Yes, but not authoritative ones, mostly just yammering. > > > > > but you can read it here: > > > > > > > http://digitizor.com/2010/02/05/openoffice-dropped-from-ubuntu-netbook-edition-10-04/ > > > > Thanks. The nastiness in the bait-and-switch apparent in Ubuntu 10.04 > > has been very visible for about two releases. The distro is a > > write-off at this point. > > > > OOo on netbooks is possible, though not as fast. A few years ago (or > > more) there was discussion of the need to trim down and streamline the > > OOo code. Unfortunately, the OOo programmers already do a lot of work. > > The rewrite would be one the scale of the Mozilla rewrite, probably > > larger. > > > > Small, light ODF tools the size of Geany or Kate are needed for text, if > > not also spreadsheets and presentations. > > > I have Ubuntu on my netbook and use OOo on it occasionally, mainly > Writer and Calc. Certainly I'm using Google Docs more these days for
Don't you do presentations on your netbook? I found presentations be the killer use of a netbook. > collaborative work and even just making web pages fo quite a lot I might > have use a WP for a couple of years ago. With Smartphone moving into the > netbook space maybe OOo trying to compete on features with MSO at the > desktop is fighting the wrong out of date battle. A stripped down OOo > for the Smartphone would be a killer but I suspect that by the time this > could be done it will be too late. Other lightweight odf apps will > surely emerge. > -- > Ian > Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications > A new approach to assessment for learning > www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 >From my experience I dont think the office suite is exactly what I am looking forward when doing mobile computing. At least on cellphones. The question is if I want a note application that can export to ODF and the answer is "sure". Then again still not considering a Killer app. Even many PalmOS spreadsheet apps don't feel them as useful, except maybe for vieweing their content. What I did is use ODpyConvert (which should become an extension), and export all my ~/Documents/ files into PDF and then scp it to my N900. What I do need is maybe a good document manager that can read the metatag of the document and easily grep the content from it. Browing a folder with 500+ documents can be a pain in a mobile. Then again this is very Off Topic since the Ubuntu version is for NetBooks, not mobiles. -- Alexandro Colorado OpenOffice.org Español IM: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
