StarOffice 5.2 Released

CMettler writes: "Just saw on the Sun Web site that StarOffice 5.2 is released. They improved the MS Office Import filters, better Database support and there is a player for playing StarOffice presentations without an installed StarOffice."

Comments

I think I know why they use WiW MDI....

[V.]

Have you ever compared the X and Windows versions
of StarOffice? They look pretty much identical.
The buttons, scrollbars, menus, etc. I mean.

Most of the people who will use SO( assuming that
it starts to get some share of the users at all )
will be the kind of people who could care less
what OS/Windowing system they are running. They
are office workers, home users, etc. A user
who learns to operate SO on a Mac will *instantly*
know what to expect when they sit down in front
of a Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris box running
SO because the fullscreen WiW hides the underlying
OS and windowing system completely. An initial
learning curve and then no loss when moving to
another platform. In some sense the WiW is good
for people who would like to get Linux or some
other alternative OS out of the server room and
onto desktops. If the person who uses that desktop
is a heavy office suite user, they probably
wouldn't even know the difference.

That's not to say that I like the WiW. It's
annoying to *nix-ites who are used to multiple
desktops and terms spattered everywhere. I can
just understand why they use WiW. It's there
attempt to appease what they think will be the
largest chunk of users.

IMHO.

Re:Great, but scrub the MDI

[Anonymous Coward]

To load an app without that "Desktop", use something like this for each app:

/home/USER_NAME/Office51/bin/soffice private:factory/scalc%f

/home/USER_NAME/Office51/bin/soffice private:factory/swriter%f

The first one is for the spreadsheet, the second for the word processor. More tips at the FAQ page: http://www.wernerroth.de/en/staroffice/faq/faq.htm l