Hi,
hopefully I'm posting this in the right place and in the right way...
first time.
A post has been submitted by "cfrees" complaining about the lack of
clarity over how to use OpenOffice.org 2.0 in Mac OS X. There have
been several user support requests on how to actually get
OpenOffice.org 2.0 working - mainly because there is no Read Me that
comes with the download (and having looked at versiontracker.com
there is no description there either). The main issue is that it
isn't apparent that you need X11 installed!!
The post is the top one on this page:
http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?
name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1920&start=30&postdays=0&postorder=asc&high
light=
While here, I may as well submit my complaint about the auto-running
of fondu when you launch OpenOffice.org 2.0 for X11. Fair enough that
you have to use fondu to get fonts available to the app, but I find
it quite unacceptable that there is no end-user choice in this
process or the ability to pick and choose which fonts you would like
converted (or more pertinently, those that you wouldn't). As a
consequence of having over a thousand fonts installed on my system,
the OpenOffice.org 2.0 package swelled to nearly 700MB of disk space.
To have an app use that much space without my own input and choice in
the matter is not good. Worse still, although I have those thousand
plus fonts, I only have about 100 active at any one time. To be
presented with more than a thousand fonts in an application when you
don't want it is also not a good thing.
What if an end-user has several thousand fonts installed? They could
very easily see a few GB of disk space disappear for no apparent
reason as they wouldn't necessarily know that the fondu process was
occurring and that all their fonts were being duplicated without
their consent.
Anyway, the work you folks put in is appreciated but it would be
better if you could include a readme with your downloads that details
the issues above.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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