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OpenOffice for Mac OS X Developer Build Available
colaboy writes "As of today, the folks at OpenOffice.org have successfully built OpenOffice.org 638c for Mac OS X using the X11 windowing system from XFree86.org. It works. They need, more than ever, help to finish it, so that it uses OpenOffice.org 1.0 and Aqua, and is bug-free. Download it now, and join the project and mailing list. Hunt for bugs; test features; make suggestions. They have proven the concept: OpenOffice.org can run--and it looks beautiful--on Mac OS X."
Sure it would. And they are asking for help with this. OpenOffice.Org is tremendously limited on resources, especially considering the scope of the project.
This would be on the scale of porting the app to Windows. Luckily, Sun/Staroffice had done a great deal of work for the Windows port even before OpenOffice.Org got started. No such established codebase exists for an Aqua version. I am not sure what levels of the architecture can be reused.
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I've noticed that when fun projects reach a certain level of completeness on *nix, the Cocoa developers come out of the woodwork. Take a look at Chimera, a cocoa port of Mozilla.
I know that getting XDarwin is a hassle for lots of "vanilla" Mac users, but this is going to be a must download for bleeding-edge Unix weenies.
I predict a Cocoa version will be under weigh by the time this message is posted and we will see an alpha by Xmas (ten-mas!).
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My father is a blogger.
One is for Massinova, a spiffy online electronica radio station. You can access it via Radio Stations > Electronica in iTunes, or by downloading their menubar plugin or Dock extra.
The other is ProcessWizard, basically a GUI to re-nice processes.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Depending on your needs, OpenOffice is a great alternative to M$ Office. We used it on Windows instead of M$, and it has been sorely missed on OSX. I'm glad they have the X11 port done, as I do not fear X11 (see also fink.sf.net for an "easy" X11 install).
:-)
If you're looking for something that works, give it a shot - it is free, after all
(I can't speak to the quality on OSX, but on Windows it was very stable)
Oh I wish I could program like this, I would spend every waking moment on Open Office, not because it is free but because we desperately need an alternative to Office. While I think Office for X is amazing, we need competition and we need to be prepared for when the Apple-M$ deal goes south (it's closer than many think). Unix geeks and Mac Lovers should unite for a common goal in Open Office, the biggest problem is many users have no idea what fink is and are scared of the command line so we need a true OS X port of it, but I will be downloading it today!
People, this is a barely stable developers build. It's not ready for the public yet. Eventually it will have an Aqua front end, but not yet because they've only just managed to hack this build together!
It's put out there for the Apple WWDC for people to take a look at and come along and give a hand. Please do not think that this is anywhere near the quality of OpenOffice.org 1.0 on Linux, Windows or Solaris. Yet.
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MSIE on Mac OS X can handle png images, but for some reason the browser ignores them by default.
In the Explorer Menu, go to Preferences. go to file helpers. Where it says under MIME type "image/png" click change and change the bottom drop box to "View with Browser."
Reopen the page
Voila!
You have something screwed up; .png files look fine on my OS X machines.
Do other image types appear? If so, open your IE Preferences, click on the "File Helpers" item, scroll down to the image/png data type, double-click it, select "View with browser" for handling, then "OK".