Comments on: OpenOffice is on the right track

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:03:11 +0000

I wrote a bug regarding the subject: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/287257
I attached a picture comparing OpenOffice.org and Abiword as well: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18783199/openoffice.org_doesnt_follow_default_appearance.png

By: Peng’s links for Monday, 24 November « I’m Just an Avatar

Peng’s links for Monday, 24 November « I’m Just an Avatar — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:47:56 +0000

[...] Rojtberg: OpenOffice.org is on the right track. OpenOffice has a longstanding issue about the UI, one which Pavel shows you how to uncover, and [...]

By: Michael Meeks

Michael Meeks — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:42:33 +0000

Stefano F. – did you actually read the paper ? if you had you would have seen that this is indeed substantially Novell work, but is up-stream in OO.o [ not enabled yet there ].

By: Eric Bachard

Eric Bachard — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:25:21 +0000

This is a long story in fact, and it was one of the first uggly thing we discovered in the Mac OS X Aqua port of OpenOffice.org too. The problem is, every application depends on vcl, means a loooot of code depends on a ~20 years implementation. Not that easy to be modernized. Volunteers are welcome

By: Stefano F. (tacone)

Stefano F. (tacone) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:19:25 +0000

That’s not OpenOffice, but Novell’s sposored fork.