On 3/22/07, Guy Voets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
I was not involved in your discussion. If I were, I would be on the pro-Neo side, as I have been for years. For years, the "very enthusiastic" (sic) Mac port team has done a lot of talking with zero results. Whenever a true Mac-Native Aqua port of OpenOffice.org (tm) without X11 becomes available, I'll use it, and I will tell the world to use it. Until that day, I will use and promote NeoOffice. If someone goes through the hell to install X11, digging out the Tiger install discs that most users have never opened, much less used, or finding the download on some obsecure page for 10.3 users, (which, searching for a download is the first thing most people do when having to install something weird - not digging out the CDs/DVDs that came with your computer).... Why should users have to do nay of that? NeoOffice has been offering Mac-Nativity for at least 4 years that I am personally aware of - probably longer than that. Why can 2 guys in their spare time do 4 years ago what the entire of OpenOffice.org and Sun Microsystems hasn't been able to do in as many years with full time employees? Look at the download page. Has anyone from Sun or OOo looked at it on a Mac looked at it? I did. Here's what I saw. http://chad78.justfree.com/Port2Mac/OOo4Mac.html Just a tip - when making a page for Mac users - don't test view it on Windows IE. 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
-- - Chad Smith http://www.chadwsmith.com/
