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Gnumeric Developers Interviewed, And V1.2 Previewed

Posted by timothy on from the blocks-of-cells-but-open dept.

Suresh Chandra Das writes "Gnumeric 1.2 is to be released on the 8th of September, and we have a preview of what is coming up ( mirrored here). Also, linmagau.org is running an interview with two of Gnumeric's lead developers -- Jody Goldberg and Andreas L. Guelzow."

9 comments

  1. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I hate Arabs. They are bad. They blow themselves up. They hate my civilization. They are jealous. Arabs are shit. Fuck them. FUCK YOU MOHAMMED!

    1. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That's not a very Christian attitude is it? Stupid cunt. Besides, if it weren't for the Arabs' development of science and mathematics during the Dark Ages of the western world, we wouldn't have our civilisation now. There wouldn't be computers for you to post your rascist messages with; you'd be fucking a goat on a turnip farm instead.

    2. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      That's not a very Christian attitude is it?


      Indeed it's not. However, the troll-up didn't ever mention Christianity. Please don't presume that because someone hates a religion they're necessarily calling themselves Christian. (Indeed, I'd argue that, if they hate, they're not Christian, no matter what they call themselves.) The Christians I know are actually very loving people, not at all the Bible-thumping, red-faced raging hateful people the media and stereotypes want us to believe Christians to be.
    3. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Thanks for your reply. I don't think of Christians as hateful people -- after all, there are many different varieties of them from fundamentalists to progressives. (I would even call myself a Christian given a suitable definition of the term.) But our cultural heritage in the west is Christian, and many of us, especially our leaders (never mind that little separation of Church and State thing!), position ourselves as Christian in order to make our actions appear morally justified, all the while ignoring the central tenets of Christianity (love God; love your neighbor; love your enemies). Rightly or wrongly, the "War on Terror" is seen as a religious war. Leaving aside the realities of international politics for the moment, it's hard to reconcile "love your enemy" with "bomb the shit out of them". Reading the Gospels, I get the impression that hypocrisy is the worst possible thing that one can do.

    4. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      it's hard to reconcile "love your enemy" with "bomb the shit out of them". Reading the Gospels, I get the impression that hypocrisy is the worst possible thing that one can do.


      Indeed. This is my central problem with war in general--it isn't Christian. The central conflict with that is self-defense. I've not completely figured that one out yet. The basic solution that I know of atm is just to trust God and let Him take the action. It's extremely hard for a human to do, and I don't know if I'd be able to do it, if I were in such a situation.

      I don't get the impression that hypocrisy is the worst; but that all sins are equal and should be equally turned away from. This scales from killing others down to saying one thing and doing another (hypocrisy). I do get the impression from current Western civilization that hypocrisy is the worst sin, but that's civilization, and one that is generally Christian-hostile.
  2. Like the sound of this... by BrokenHalo · · Score: 2, Informative
    Since Gnumeric is so very functional and damn quick to load. But as I often have to integrate spreadsheets and charts with WP documents (in scientific reports), I fear I'm stuck with OpenOffice for a while.

    Yes, I know LaTeX can handle it, but I haven't had the time to break that learning curve.

  3. OASIS? by fault0 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are the gnumeric developers ever going to switch to the OASIS format soon? (like the koffice developers recently started doing)

    1. Re:OASIS? by Jody+Goldberg · · Score: 1

      We'll support it, but will not adopt it as the native format. Frankly I'd rather use xls than the OASIS xml. I've got a few substantive issues with the core structure of the spreadsheet format as proposed by OpenCalc.

  4. Gnumeric on Mac OSX. by agentk · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gnumeric seems to work ok on OSX. You need to install an X11 Server and Fink, and then, in a Terminal: sudo fink install gnumeric (and wait a long time) or sudo apt-get install gnumeric.

    An Aqua or Carbon port would be cool though.

    If more people used wxWindows, then (a) porting to Windows and Mac would be really easy, and (b) wxWindows would continue to improve as people contributed.

    --

    VOS/Interreality project: www.interreality.org