One tracker that hasn't been mentioned that I'm enjoying using is Roundup. It's written in Python, uses the TAL template language, and is really easy to customise if the base install doesn't suit your needs.
I really recommend that you check it out.
The biggest problem I find with OO.o is the unpolished and sometimes downright stupid UI design decisions. For an example try this:
Open a new document (e.g. presentation)
Create a new shape (e.g. rectangle)
Try and make it a non standard colour (e.g. Slashdot green)
You can't easily. To do this you have to right click on the object, select styles and formatting and go to the Colours tab, where you encounter the most unintuitive UI for adding colours to the internal palette. There's not even the Saturation/Hue picker for new users. Just RGB values. Frankly: absolutely appauling.
And don't even bother transferring the document to another machine and trying to modify the colour, it will drive you insane.
I appreciate all the effort that's gone into it, but there are places where it is a battle to get it to do what you want. And that isn't productive or fun.
This is a word for word, picture for picture copy of the original at Softpedia (I'm guessing, as the Softpedia article was posted 4 days earlier). The article linked is full of adverts as well.
You would be better off reading the offical GIMP release notes.
A serious question: have they improved the rendering time of evince? Because right now it can be torturous waiting for a document to be redrawn after zooming in, especially compared to Foxit on Windows
This is less a review, and more a HOWTO. There's nothing there that isn't in the readme, and the only opinion is on the last line proclaiming that it is better than Tremulous. And even that has no justification.
Slashdot Mirror
This seems very similar to True Knowledge, which has been in Beta for ages, and not as other people suggest, Google
One tracker that hasn't been mentioned that I'm enjoying using is Roundup. It's written in Python, uses the TAL template language, and is really easy to customise if the base install doesn't suit your needs. I really recommend that you check it out.
You can't easily. To do this you have to right click on the object, select styles and formatting and go to the Colours tab, where you encounter the most unintuitive UI for adding colours to the internal palette. There's not even the Saturation/Hue picker for new users. Just RGB values. Frankly: absolutely appauling. And don't even bother transferring the document to another machine and trying to modify the colour, it will drive you insane. I appreciate all the effort that's gone into it, but there are places where it is a battle to get it to do what you want. And that isn't productive or fun.
This is a word for word, picture for picture copy of the original at Softpedia (I'm guessing, as the Softpedia article was posted 4 days earlier). The article linked is full of adverts as well. You would be better off reading the offical GIMP release notes.
A serious question: have they improved the rendering time of evince? Because right now it can be torturous waiting for a document to be redrawn after zooming in, especially compared to Foxit on Windows
This is less a review, and more a HOWTO. There's nothing there that isn't in the readme, and the only opinion is on the last line proclaiming that it is better than Tremulous. And even that has no justification.
(E-) Must try harder.
The site Open Source alternative may be of some help here. It lists open source alternatives to many commercial pieces of software. In this case:
Photoshop > Paint.NET
Illustrator > Inkscape
Acrobat > PDF Creator
Flash > Open Laszlo
Dreamweaver > Nvu...or a good text editor
and so on. I urge everybody to check it out though if you're looking for some more bits of software to play with.