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OpenOffice 3.1 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-a-strange-topic-icon dept.

harmonise writes "OpenOffice 3.1 has been released. According to the release announcement, this update received 'The biggest single change (half a million lines of code!) and the most visible is the major revamp of OpenOffice.org on-screen graphics.' See the OpenOffice 3.1 New Features page for a full list of changes."

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  1. What, half a million lines of code changed... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    and still no Clippy the paperclip to help me write a letter?

  2. .5 million lines of code by zindorsky · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Having a lot of lines of code is not necessarily something to brag about. In fact, it's more likely to be an indicator of badness than goodness.

    If the product works great, people won't care how many lines of code it has. If it's buggy or sluggish or in other ways wonky, people might look at the code line count and point to that as the problem. ("It's bloated!" "It's so big no one can understand it or fix it!")

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  3. Congratulations by Abreu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Screw the naysayers, congratulations to everybody working in OpenOffice.org

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  4. Improved looks? by B5_geek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have heard for a long time how horrible OOo looked. Personally, I never understood what the problem was. The icons were clear and easy to dostinguosh between them, and the text-buttons were obvious.

    Compared to the newest version of MS Office, I'd say that any version of OOo wins hands down.

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  5. Word count by simonwalton · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does it offer the ability to have an auto-updating word count in the status bar yet? It's absolutely essential to many people, particularly copywriters who are paid to hit a particular word count. It seems like such a trivial thing to implement and has been requested many times.

    1. Re:Word count by rs232 · · Score: 5, Informative

      "Does it offer the ability to have an auto-updating word count in the status bar yet?"

      I don't know, but if you msg the developers I'm sure they would give it full attention. I see here that someone in 2006 wrote a Macro to perform such a task.

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    2. Re:Word count by bwalling · · Score: 5, Funny

      2006? How am I supposed to get back to 2006 and get it? It's not like I have a time traveling phone booth or DeLorean sitting around.

  6. Anti-Aliasing! by AtomicDevice · · Score: 5, Funny

    "OpenOffice.org now uses a technique called anti-aliasing..."

    WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF TOMORROW!!!!!!!

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  7. Re:antialiased! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The new anti-aliasing feature is on the graphics (charts, etc). The text in writer has been anti-aliased for years, ass.

  8. Re:Sorry but... by Tokerat · · Score: 5, Funny

    You had me until "Microsoft"...

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  9. Well, Duh! by camperdave · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the most visible is the major revamp of OpenOffice.org on-screen graphics.

    Well, Duh! I'll bet the least visible is the off screen graphics.

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  10. Re:Sorry but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And Windows is free if your time and money have no value.

  11. Re:Sorry but... by x4nit0s · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry to pick on you grammer nazi but if your going to do it right you should follow your own advice

    Yes, "YOUR" right his "GRAMMER" was teh sux, also while we're at it when you say you could care less you imply that you do care about the issue, as you have the ability to care less than you currently do about it.

    Get a brane, moran!