OEone and Open Office Working Together

Mike Potter writes "OEone and OpenOffice.org have announced a new partnership that will see the two groups work together to bring OpenOffice applications to OEone HomeBase and see the Mozilla calendar data integrated into the OpenOffice suite. OEone is hard at work getting a version of HomeBase running on RedHat 7.3 and Mandrake, with help from open source developers."

Comments

This is a good thing

[SourKAT]

I think OEOne is a pretty slick alternative desktop. And with the addition of OpenOffice.org, the future just seems a litle brighter.

On a side, I think they should not just target a particular distro (i.e., RH and Mandrake) but maybe target LSB? After all Mozilla is supposed to be platform independent, and much more so, Distro idependent.

I have a better idea

[Anonymous Coward]

How about getting OpenOffice to run without segfaulting? It isn't 1.0 yet. The install process is too complicated (and doesn't work), and OpenOffice will faceplant (won't run, install or uninstall) if a Java environment is installed after it is.

And "yeah but it worked for me" is no different than the standard Microsoft tech support answer "it's running on our systems here"

Any program that segfaults is broken. Period. End of story. Programs that segfault make Linux no better than Windows. We use Linux to get some work done, not turn the system into a giant, dependency-drenched nightmare that falls apart at the slightest nudge.

Mozilla doesn't segfault. Abiword doesn't segfault. Gimp doesn't segfault. Let's get to that level of stability first.

OpenOffice needs a LOT of work before adding more cruft.

Re:I have a better idea

[mz001b]

OpenOffice needs a LOT of work before adding more cruft.

Submit bug reports detailing the problems/crashes you are having. Like many others, I don't have any stability problems. I did in earlier builds, and I submitted some bug reports. That is how things will get fixed.

Re:Yippee

[SourKAT]

Why, is a good question. But the answer could be that this desktop is not actually targeted for hackers but regular end users. And if I read correclty they're targeting specialized devices such as settop or dedicated email/web machines. Their UI is very similar to a Browser/Web interface so it would be easy for momp, pop, little sister and that neighbor that insists on hangin' out on our living room to be comfortable with ... hmmm ... on second thought maybe it's not such a good thing after all ;)

Reinventing the wheel, or Windows?

[Duderstadt]

Damn, but those screenshots look like the ones posted of Microsoft Whistler (XP) Beta 2. At the time, XP's UI looked kind of like a cross between their 'Luna' and 'Classic' modes.

But damn again, when will the OSS world learn that you cannot overtake Windows, especially on the desktop, until we have something better than XP? Looking at those fuzzy screens, I almost cringe at the idea of what the fonts look like up close. And i do cringe at the thought of how slow this thing has got to be on less than prime grade hardware.

Seriously, folks, if we really want a peice of the desktop, we have to take Apple's lead and build a new UI. If they can do it, there is no reason OSS can't.

Looks Good

[Tyreth]

I really like the idea of OEone's desktop. Combining with OpenOffice seems like an excellent idea - both projects should benefit from each other reviewing their products.

Doesn't matter about segfaults - these will get fixed as time passes and as the two projects co-operate. Alternatively submit bug reports yourself.

libraries is what I meant

[Trepidity]

I personally run Enlightenment 16.5, and don't use either KDE or GNOME, but I still need to have all the KDE and GNOME libraries to run the apps I use. And the libraries (libgnome, libkde, etc.) constitute at least 70% or so of KDE and GNOME's size.