OpenOffice.org For Mac OS X

Chris Coleman writes "Move over Microsoft, OpenOffice.org is starting to take hold on Mac OS X. To facilitate this, we at Daemon News have put together a CD set that makes it really easy to install and use. We are also donating part of our booth space at Mac World Expo to the OpenOffice.org group to help spread awareness."

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No dice, it still requires X11

[analog_line]

I don't care if the interface is "Aquafied", but it's a non-starter with me unless it runs without X11. I have XDarwin installed and use it pretty regularly, and it kills any real multitasking, either by slowing everything else down in rootless mode, or requiring a full desktop shift. It sucks, and I use it as little as humanly possible.

So thanks, but no thanks. I'll certainly try it when the actual port gets working, but until it runs without X11, it might as well not exist.

Re:No dice, it still requires X11

[jbolden]

It sounds like you need a little more ram or a slightly faster CPU. For right now try a lighter window manager. Usually when people complain about X being slow they are using too much window manager for their machine.

clipboard

[Twirlip of the Mists]

I know that the X11 primary selection is somehow bridged to the system clipboard, so you can select in an X11 application and paste in an OS X application and vice versa, but does this interface handle styled text or graphics? I use the clipboard for moving styled text, Unicode text, and images around all the time, and not being able to do that to and from my word processor would kill me.

Anybody know what the deal is here?

NeoOffice Screenshots

[knoxer]

Here are some screenshots for the latest public build of NeoOffice (prototype Aqua version of OpenOffice) http://www.neooffice.org/flaming_yeti_screenshots. html

Re:cool

[Blackstealth]

All Micro$oft products for Mac OS are very poor and crash a lot of times

I've been using Office v.X heavily since it was released and it's never crashed or failed on me yet. Internet Explorer is another kettle of fish tho...

What a rush... to market

[Slur]

I haven't looked at the source code for OpenOffice but I tend to think this is the wrong approach to get this software onto the Mac. I'm sure the development team is very excited to see their baby can walk, but why not take the longer road and get it right? What's kewl for geeks is not always kewl for end users.

Assuming the program is written using intelligent design the data model and I/O controller should be almost completely isolated from the display code. If this is so then the bulk of work should consist of putting a decent Aqua interface on it, putting the menu bar where it belongs, and using Quartz for the text rendering.

Could it be that there's a limited supply of Mac-savvy open source developers available?

x runs great, use icewm

[b17bmbr]

go to fink.sf.net, install icewm, and then edit .xintrc to this:

#twm &
/sw/bin/icewm &

for some reason, on my ibook, when i run even oroborosx, it doesn't immedaitely pick up mouse clicks. in gimp, i have to click twice to switch from one window to the next. not so in icewm. it's lite and fast and is actually fairly feature rich. there is nothing wrong with X11. i have only 256MB on my 700mhz ibook. i run X and aqua concurrently and have no problems. the biggest gripe about OO.org is it takes forever to load. they trashed the desktop, but they still kept the apps tied. if i load writer, i don't need the calc and impress libs loaded too. msoffice is "integrated" yet each are distinctly different apps. OO.org needs to do this.