OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X Goes Final Beta

WizardOfFoo writes "Time to break out the bug hammers, the Final Beta of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X is now ready for testing. It still requires X11 though... I want my Quartz OpenOffice.org..." I tested it, and it works great with Apple's new X11 for Mac OS X.

Comments

Slightly OT: OS X and X11

[elliotj]

I'm really hoping this new beta X11 environment from Apple is the tip of the iceberg. I'd like to see it become as integrated into OS X as Classic. Having come from a Linux background there are lots of X apps I run on my TiBook and no Classic apps, but that's just me.

Not being a developer, I was wondering how menus are implemented in X11 apps. I know that it's different depending on whether you use Motif, KDE or Gnome, but my main question is whether or not these menus could be "automagically" relocated to the Apple menu bar so the app would look more like a Mac app. I suspect this will never happen but I know very little about it.

I like Apple's new X11 very much. Nice and snappy. Quartz-wm is amazing. It's great using a WM that respects my theme (I use Rhapsodized b/c I hate Aqua and quartz-wm takes this since it uses Quartz...how about that!)

The only thing I don't like is that the menu bar just says X11 and there's no indication of how many X apps you're running, so you can't ALT+tab between them or use the dock to change the app of focus. You actually have to click on it with the mouse or use the 'window' menu on the X11 menu bar.

Re:My Review of OOo X11 Beta

[WatertonMan]

Did they get it so that it sees the local OSX fonts as well as the standard X11 fonts? That has been the bane with most X11 based office applications.

The notes with Apple's X11.app says that any application should be able to use Apple's fonts as well. So, for example, you can use Monoco in Xterm (which I have done). However I know AbiWord didn't access them. Before I d/l this huge distro, I'm curious if it will.

Re:Well..

[bsharitt]

It would be reasonable to assume that Apple could do something like this. I KDE can make an unmodified XFree86 look better as far as font rendering goes, I don't see why Apple couldn't. The only problem is that even when fonts look nice in KDE and Gnome, they still look bad in OpenOffice. OpenOffice and xterm are the only programs I've used so far in Apple's X11, so I don't know what it would look lik in a "regular" X app. Lets all just keep n mind this is a 0.1 release. They might eventually be able to integrate it in such a way that most X apps are indistinguishable from regular Mac OS X apps.

Re:Eventual iOffice, anybody?

[burns210]

I agree that a major revamp of appleworks is just waiting to be debuted. But i don't think apple needs an excel replacement, well, they don't need to build one from scratch. Appleworks comes with a spreadsheet app. Maybe apple will make that "Counter" app and release the peices of their office killer one by one. Now all they need is a access killer...

X11

[jellomizer]

This is slightly off topic. But is this X11 that you download from apple a bunch of libraries when the application is compiled. Or is it like XDarwin. If so where is it loaded so I can run it?

Please note this is a question. And I am confident enough in my abilities to ask it. I rather be a fool for 5 minutes and loose some karma then be a fool for ever and not get the facts straight. I am sure there are other people that have more time to find the answer. This paragraph is posted because asking question often lead to ridicule. Which dosent really answer the question.