begin quoting Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. as of Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 02:27:42PM -0800: > [snip] > To be fair, OpenOffice does a *lot* of groveling in various directories > to work stuff out (java permissions, fonts and printer access > particularly suck). Grovelling can be done with normal user access.
> And, to be fair, have you filed a bug report? Yes. The response is where I got the "You don't understand the UNIX Way" assessment, along with work-arounds such as making my primary user account the root account. > NeoOffice/J (which is effectively OpenOffice for Aqua) also wanted it. > I think that's actually a peculiarity of the OS X package manager. > I will cut NeoOffice some slack as it 1) runs under Aqua (no X11, woo > hoo!) and 2) interfaces to the native printing system. (I think > AbiWord is the only other one to do this.) It does look promising. I started down the path of trying to compile from scratch, and got sidetracked. I forget if I ran up against significant problems, got bored, or if it just got pushed off my plate. > And, yes, NeoOffice now has a bug report about this. Bug #414 > submitted by YT. Yay. > I actually like the fact that most OS X programs now just come as a > bundle that you can drag and drop into Applications. That's it. No > OS tweaking, no root passwords, nada. It ... just ... works. (see > Fire and Colloquy for examples) Amen! I *love* it when applications do this. Uncompress, mount disk image, copy. Ta-da. Want a system install? Install to /Applications. Want a local install? Drag to $HOME/Apps. Want to quickly check it out? Drag to the desktop and/or run directly from the image. > In case you were wondering, persistent data goes into the user's home > directory under a directory called Library. It is supposed to get > built the first time an application runs. Yah, I should clean out $HOME/Library again. -Stewart "Linux, OS X, Solaris. OS X is still the prettiest." Stremler -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
