Mike Dawe schrieb:
Zoltán Kócsi wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:10:48 +1100
Mike Dawe <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi, I've had the first OOo alpha version 3.1 installed for a couple
of days.
I've downloaded it and installed on a (admittedly fairly old) SuSE 10.0
system (x86). Install went without a hitch. However, when I start it, it
comes up with the splashscreen, thinks for a while and then pops up
what I believe should be the initial config menu. I don't know what
fonts it's using, but none of them is readable. That is, I end up with
a window where even the window title is unreadable. There are two
panels, the right one is probably the progress (step 1 ..step 4 is
visible, but nothing else), the left hand side panel is completely
empty. There are 4 buttons underneath, no text on them. Can't do
anything with it.
Are there minimal sys requirements? Fonts that must be there?
If yes, why does the install state that it was installed OK when
obviously it wasn't?
Hi Zoltan.
This is an *alpha* software. You should only install this if you are
curious and want to see first hand what is on the horizon - Or if you
wish to help debug and send in user reports. It is some time off before
it will be a stable product.
You should not install this software if you plan to use OOo for general
use. You will have far better results anyway if you use version 3.0.1 or
earlier.
In this alpha there will be some horrendous bugs to squash before it is
released to the larger community.
For me, problems I encountered with this alpha were that PDF creation
crashed OOo and auto spelling checking did not show the red squiggly
underlines as I typed - although if I right-clicked words that I knew
were miss-spelled, the options to correct them were there.
I have had my little play with this alpha for now and have reverted back
to version 3.0.1. I will wait until there is an RC candidate at least,
before looking at it further most likely.
Otherwise, the new features that are implemented into 3.1 will be worth
the wait.
Please think of it this is the very first development release. There is
a very far way towards the final. See this:
alpha->beta->rc->final
So you can imagine ho far the way is. Any of this milestones has usually
more than one release. You can have even five or more of each. I thing
you know now why you should not use this version as you standard
program. It is a minefild as mozilla would say. :)
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