Hi Clytie, Clytie Siddall a écrit :
It's just an early test version, an alpha.
Yes, it is an alpha version.
I thought this was the right place to report back. I hope I haven't stuffed up. :S
No problem, this list is the right place
Today, I handed the USB key to my teenage daughter, who uses our Mac Mini (also Intel). She is an embyro graphic artist, and a fair representative of our younger generation of users. She hadn't used OpenOffice.org before. She mostly lives in Photoshop, Omniweb, iTunes, MPlayer, the Dashboard and Yahoo Messenger. Her idea of text- mode is to open TextEdit.
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She plugged in the USB key, then double-clicked on the Writer icon on the key. This time, the splash screen showed properly. The Writer window only displayed as a black rectangle at first, and stayed that way for quite a while. In all, the app took at least five minutes to load.
Several issues can occur: USB not working properly ( I know some cases ), USB key model using USB 1.1 (instead of adviced 2.0 ), and/or some file system check on your key, because not correctly unmounted last time, or spotlight doing some work in background... the real cause is not easy to discover remotely, but top and some other tools could be helpfull when the issue occurs.
Such slow down never occured for me, thank you for reporting it, I'll have a closer look on that, and I'll try to find other testers, to isolate the real cause.
That has to improve.
Sure, but first isolate the real cause.
Also, she expected that OpenOffice.org would support her Japanese keyboard layouts out of the box. Her other OSX apps do. She doesn't know about locales, and doesn't expect to have to setup her system to use other languages. She has her system prefs set to give second priority to Japanese, and doesn't expect to have to do anything else (if that).
Don't remember, I put the first Aqua version I found on my disk, for testing purpose: this is just a try and a not well tested solution.
More, the version I put inside is Carbon version, and I have seen a lot of improvement on Coca version since. We just do our best, but integrate all changes needs time, and here is the problem.
When inputting Japanese just created white boxes, she was unimpressed. Is there any way we can use the OSX system prefs to support languages the way other OSX apps do? Not necessarily to localize the whole app, but simply to support display and input of other languages.
I'm pretty sure Herbert Duerr and Etsushi Kato fixed that recently, but on Cocoa version only.
This concludes Test 2. The user did not say, "Hey, I want to keep that!"
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