On Sun, 13 May 2007 17:16:40 +0200 Hagar de l'Est <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> Le 13.05.2007 16:57, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI a écrit : > > Apart from that, I dont know if the K/E/Ubuntu version of OO has had > > functionalities removed.... > > I do confirm it was the case for previous versions : for example the Mozilla > plug-in was removed in 2.0.4 Ubuntu package IIRC. This has been confirmed by > users on the Ubuntu forum. But I am using the Mozilla plugin now with Feisty. As far as I know it was removed only in Edgy. And that was not an OOo feature that Ubuntu removed; rather it was a Mozilla feature. And I have always been able to log in as root and still launch and use OOo. I think what the person who said that was referring to was that in Ubuntu the root account is disabled by default. If there is no root account, of course you can't launch OOo as root! But it takes a couple mouse clicks to create the root account if you want one. The fact is that the more popular the distro the more likely they have changed the packages. Normally the only change is something to fix incompatibilities with some other feature of the distro. People reading this thread are getting the impression that OOo barely works on Ubuntu, and nothing could be further from the truth. I am using 2.2 on Feisty and I haven't heard of any feature that is in the canonical 2.2 download from OOo that I don't also have in the OOo that came from the Ubuntu repository. In fact, as far as I know the OOo 2.2 that is in the repository maintained by Ubuntu is the same package that I could download from OOo. But having said that, occasionally there are problems with a distro and OOo, viz the problems I had with drag and drop and a couple other things when running 2.0.4 under Edgy. Unfortunately, installing the official OOo version made no difference. Even installing the official 2.2 version made no difference. So the problem was not a change that Ubuntu made to OOo, but rather an incompatibility problem with Ubuntu itself. If someone wants to run the official OOo version on any distro it can probably be done. But doing so usually doesn't resolve any problems. And if you really, really, really want your own OOo you can always download the source and compile it for your kernel yourself. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
