Hey. What are you talking about? OpenOffice is great! Starts up in under 10 seconds on my box (Kubuntu 9.04) Never had it crash. The concept was to emulate MS office and that was done extremely well. I have no problem with non-responsiveness or sluggishness. Its fast and direct. (Admittedly opening the file open/save dialog takes long for some reason). . What hardware and OS are you running it on?
I sincerely hope that this product will stay alive. As long as the several web office products are not feature complete, OO will be my favourite. Im so glad theres an alternative to gimicky, eye-candy driven, top- heavy MS office. The VM has the future. Doesnt matter which language the new office will be written in. There's going to be a office suite on the VM and hotspot is looking really good. All you need is bytecode. Kr. Luke. On Jul 21, 1:54 am, Massimo <[email protected]> wrote: > I hate to say it, but OpenOffice is a mess. Even on 3.1, it still > crashes during routine use, it's got long start-up times, the > interface is sluggish and non-responsive, the GUI design is clunky, > and the plug-in development is really complicated. > > ThinkFree office suite is written in Java, and that has a way faster > start-up time, is way more responsive, and is far more stable than > OpenOffice. The big problems with ThinkFree were that it had a giant > irritating ad-banner, it tried to make you use it's web file hosting > rather than local files, and it doesn't do OpenDocument (or similar) > file formats. > > I'd love to see a great free office suite built in Java. The demand is > there, but unfortunately, there is no direct financial incentive to > build such a product. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
