On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:01 AM, theUser BL <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > What is the advantage of the Apache OpenOffice.org Fork? > > Currently there are two point of views what a OOo fork is and what not. > > If you look at the trademark and logo, then LibreOffice is the fork. > > But if you look at all other things, like where all the old OOo developer are > working and so on, then LibreOffice is the new OpenOffice.org and the Apache > OpenOffice.org is the fork. >
How do you define old? I see a lot of experienced OOo developers working at Apache, some with 10 or even 15 years experience. But I don't think I'd call them "old". Maybe "middle aged"? > For me (and not only for me) developer are much more important then project > logos and names. And so for me (and not only for me) Apache OpenOffice.org > with its new developers is the fork. > > > I have seen, how OpenOffice.org changed after the core team changed to > LibreOffice. > Ok, at this point I want to mention icons. Have a look at this screenshot of > OOo from the old team: > http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/img/preview_screenshots/openoffice11.png > and then have a look at the icons of the OOo after the core team have left: > http://t3n.de/news/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/OpenOffice_org_33.jpg > All icons looking at the first view identical. Same colors, similar look. > > OpenOffice.org have had a philosophy behind a lot of things. Here the > coloring spcs of the old OOo: > http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign/OOo_galaxy_mimetype.html > As there stand "The language of colors are one of the most important > identifier to differ between all of OpenOffice.org applications.". > But the Apache OpenOffice.org fork have forgotten it. > > But the team, who have written the spec, have at LibreOffice created new > icons with the same philosophy: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/LibreOffice_Initial_Icons > > Thats for example. > > And no one other, then the people at LibreOffice understanding the code base > of the Office Suite better. > > > So what is the advantage of your OpenOffice.org fork? What will Apache OOo do > better then LibreOffice? > > > > Greatings > theuserbl > >
