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LibreOffice Gets a Streamlined Makeover With 4.4 Release
TechCurmudgeon sends word that LibreOffice 4.4 has been released. "The Document foundation announced availability of the latest version of LibreOffice on Thursday, which it says is the most beautiful version of the open source productivity suite yet. LibreOffice 4.4 also fixes some compatibility issues with files that are saved in Microsoft's OOXML formats. LibreOffice 4.4 has got a lot of UX and design love," Jan "Kendy" Holesovsky, who leads the design team for Libreoffice, said in a statement. LibreOffice 4.4 is currently available for Windows."
Depending on your OS the Windows link above will now take you to either the Windows, Mac, or Linux LO download page. If you have an Ubuntu-based distro you can apt-get install from the developer PPA at https://launchpad.net/~libreof...
LibreOffice does not "require" Java. Most things work perfectly fine without it. I believe wizards and such won't work. You can use the compilation flag "--without-java".
Ha! The clown complaining about "security risk" is more dangerous with his lack of knowledge than anything else. LibreOffice is slow because it's a crummy code base (written in C or C++ by the way, not java), you don't need java installed at all for libreoffice to work. The fact that LO is slow without java, should make you rethink you're opinion about java; massive, badly written software, performs slowly. Java has nothing to do with it.
..."the people who maintain it are, well, Java programmers"... you seem to confuse LO with OO. There was and is a concerted effort in LO to remove Java. Things like rewriting some of the Java wizards in Python. So its happening and Java is optional anyway, you probably won't even realise what is missing.
>"...if I can still make it crash within ten seconds, like all the previous versions. :-p"
I have 150 people using it every day. It is nowhere near that unstable. Having it crash is actually a very rare event.
I've always been "special" like that, unfortunately. ;/
Ezekiel 23:20
For those that want to look at the pretty pictures:
https://wiki.documentfoundatio...
I think the ability to theme with firefox color themes is intrigueing.
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No idea what you're talking about. LibreOffice, OpenOffice, and StarOffice before it are all written in C++. Java is used as a glue between certain components, such as database part. It's also used in some import filters. But it's certainly not required for LO or OO, and hasn't been a requirement ever as far as I know. Guess you haven't ever used LO or OOo.
Your student should have used a real database with Gnuplot to plot the data. Calc/Excel is only good if people enter the data and if you have a million data rows than the data is coming from some database or automatic data source anyway. What is the point in using Calc/Excel for a million data rows?
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If you remove the plugin manually it will be reinstalled with every update, and if the plugin is on your system browsers will find it an use it.
Windows versions of Java now come with a control panel applet that lets you turn off the browser plugin, and I think this setting persists when Java is updated.