2007/3/22, Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello Robert, Just tell your Mac friends about NeoOffice. http://www.neooffice.org/ - it's free, open source, Mac Native, Aqua, and based on OpenOffice.org . It's much easier to install, does not require X11 or any other extra software to download or install, and works like any other Mac OS X program. Hope that helps! -Chad <snip>
Hello We just had a discussion on the users list here about the NeoOffice fork... after which it sounds a bit false to simply sing the praises of the latter. Whatever may be the history of relations between developers of OOo and NO, I can't say that I'm all that pleased with the so-called advantages of NO over OOo. The 'native' character is little more than a distance of a few cm between the location of the top level menu. The all-over look and feel is not really what I as a Mac-user would call Aqua, and in the fast development of OOo, NO is lagging behind several versions. I'm looking forward to the native OOo version for Mac that will probably toll the bell for this rather unfortunate spin-off product. I'd advise avery Mac user to go through the motions of installing X11 (that are really peanuts, you only need to take a look at the install how-to) and maybe try to contribute to a swift transition to the Aqua OOo by reporting bugs, problems and possible solutions to the very small but enthusiastic Mac porting team. Enjoy! -- Guy using dutch OOo 2.2 RC 3 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and dutch OOo 2.2 RC 3 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger -- please reply only to [email protected] -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
