You will find more information (in Chinese) here:
http://www.ch2000.com.cn/
The user interface redesign (shown at OOoCon2007 in Barcelona) for
RedOffice3.0 is really interesting. I cannot find any screencaps to
link to though. Basically, they have completely removed the traditional
menus, and given it in what I would best describe as a "task based" icon
driven user interface. The result is something that is much more
intuitive to the Chinese users, and more suitable to their style of
writing documents. It is quite brilliant, and I wish there was an
English version for the rest of us.
I downloaded the RedOffice to give it a try. It's weird that the program is
compressed in rar instead of an open format. I had to terminate the
installation because a dialogue popup saying it would update some files used
by OpenOffice(I was doing some work in the Writer at the moment). I just
don't know why it will alter some files used by OpenOffice(my current
version is 2.2.0).
Rar is a common file compression format (as are zip, arj etc.).
I don't see the issue with rar over any other compression format. If
they had picked bzip2, gzip or tar, that would have likely confused
their MS Windows customers since these compression formats are not as
common on the Windows platform.
I have never installed RedOffice (I can't read or speak Chinese) so
can't give you any input as to why it would try to overwrite an existing
installation of OpenOffice. All I have to go on was the presentation
that the guys from RedOffice gave at the conference in Barcelona this
summer. Do they have a support mailing list or forum? Maybe the answer
can be found there?
Another possibility is the Chinese Native Language project at
http://zh.openoffice.org/new/index.html
C.
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StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany
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