Hello Clytie,
Clytie Siddall a écrit :
Hi everyone :)
I'm keen to test Portable OpenOffice.org, since most Vietnamese users
do not have computers of their own, and at best will be accessing them
via school, university, work or an Internet café, in short: someone
else's computer. We had frantic enquiries back in release cycle
OpenOffice.org 2.1 about a portable version. Portable Apps definitely
empower people with few resources.
The Portable Aqua file downloaded OK.
Good
I asked my husband to bring me home a USB thumb drive, hoping 1 GB would be enough. He says it's a
"cheap and nasty" brand (the thumb drive, not OpenOffice.org ;) ), but it seems to be working.
Ok, great :-)
FYI, the full installation needs less than 390MB on the USB key, and any
other support works. In short, install it wherever you want.
1. Installation
I followed the instructions, and everything seemed to work. (I
volunteer to review the text for the language pack script message
windows. ;) )
You're welcome.
The language pack install also worked.
Say thank you to Christian Lohmaier, alias cloph, and Shaun McDonald :)
I was impressed that the language-pack install script found and identified all my different
OpenOffice.org installs on my hard drive, as well as the one on the USB drive.
:-)
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I unmounted my USB drive, then remounted it. I clicked on the Writer
icon in my Dock, and an OpenOffice.org icon appeared.
That's exactly what was expected
(This is not really intuitive, because when I came back to the app, I
clicked on the Writer icon to return to my document, and it started
loading another OpenOffice.org instance. I'm not sure how we get around
this, but we really need only one OpenOffice.org icon, or an easier way
to remind the user of which icon does what.)
Yes, I agree. The problem is in the design, and someting is wrong.
As I explained .. somewhere ( :-) ) recently, separated applications is
not the correct design, because
we have 6 icons => one application
The opposite is imho the solution: one application, asking what,
through 6 possibilities. imho, the "New" OpenOffice.org menu is wrongly
designed too in that sense.
The setup process worked. When I clicked on "Finish", instead of the
OpenOffice.org splash screen, I saw a blank white rectangle, with a
full progress bar down the bottom.
Well spoted: this is a bug. Only at first launch, though.
Big plus: the app immediately recognized my keyboard layout choices,
and input Vietnamese text correctly.
Say thank you to Herbert Duerr and Etsushi Kato :-)
It also picked up on my
TextExpander autotext, and on Default Folder X's enhanced Open and Save
dialogues.
In short, it seems to hook into the OSX interface effectively.
Ufff :)
I was able to save a file on my hard drive, using Vietnamese characters.
So far, very good. :D
Thank you. I'll have a look to see if Universal Binary is a good
solution for that. If so, I'll give it a try. The immediate drawback is
the needed place on the key: 550MB approximatively ( if I remember
correctly the size the UB version of OpenOffice.org I tested was)
Last but not least, you are welcome to redesign the application: I
prefer have user(s) point of view first, instead of the dev one. I have
not too much time to help you, but I really appreciated your feedback.
Regards,
Eric Bachard
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