On Monday 13 June 2005 05:38 pm, Gupni ^sr Bjvrgvinsson wrote: > Dave Feustel wrote: > > I write this as a person very committed to OpenBSD as a secure desktop. > > > > I can say from experience that, running with KDE, neither Kspread nor > > Gnumeric > > on OpenBSD 3.6 are useable (by me, at least) for hard copy of even simple > > spreadsheets. > > > > I am beginning to think *very* seriously about using a Windows computer > > *just* to run MS Excel so I can get reliably and straightforwardly the hard > > copy > > I need. Neither gnumeric nor kspread running on OpenBSD 3.6 qualify on the > > basis of my brief experience with those two programs. > > > > I will continue to use OpenBSD for accessing the internet, but my business > > related computing/printing tasks may well have to be done on Windows. > > > > Dave Feustel > > > > > > Why are you "blaming" OpenBSD for an application that they didn't write > or came anything to do with except porting it?
You misunderstand the message. I am not blaming OpenBSD - just reporting a problem with the platform which may well not be significant enough for OpenBSD developers to attend to. If that's the case, C'est La Vie. > If the port isn't good > enough for your you should file a bug report There are simply too many bugs to report where printing is concerned. > or better yet, find out > *why* gnumeric is too unstable for you. gnumeric often crashes instead of printing what I specify. > What about OpenOffice on OpenBSD? *ducks* It's too big for me to even try to port. > > Regards,
