Brian Astill wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:27 am, Jorn Argelo wrote:
That advice may be OK for some things, but it doesn't make sense
to make yourself compile such behemoths as Openoffice and etc
unless you are in to pain and suffering for your entertainment.
Heh, that's true. Though let's be honest, you have to try everything
once, don't you think? I got no problems compiling KDE, but I don't
really prefer using OOo. I'll use KOffice instead.
May you have much good fortune! On my experience, you'll need it.
It might depend on the system, but I have found that KWord crashes every
time you use "Save As" and KSpread won't save AT ALL.
That's interesting. KOffice worked just fine here. I never had any
problems with it. The only minor thing that irritated me was the limited
choice of fonts, but that's it.
Interestingly, Knoppix - which is a pretty comprehensive stand-alone
Debian Linux system - ships with Open Office, but without KOffice, even
though it uses KDE as its GUI.
The main reason is, I think, because OOo can save files into Bill's
extension, and KOffice can't. Perhaps the developers of Knoppix
encountered several problems using KOffice as well.
OO just WORKS without any hassles I know of.
It's not a bad program, no. But the thing I really hate about it is that
you need a working java eviroment to let it work, even if you install it
without java support. I haven't really tried the package thing though,
I compiled it from source from the ports tree.
Cheers,
Jorn
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