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OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X Goes Final Beta

Posted by pudge on from the like-school-in-the-fall dept.

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.

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  1. Slightly OT: OS X and X11 by elliotj · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.