Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread Ed Rosack
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 04:17, David Durst wrote: > I am not sure if open office is still Java depended in some way. > > But I recently discovered after installing the J2SDK 1.4.1 that > it ceased to function. > > Does anyone have any insight??? I'm not sure exactly what your problem is, but I hav

Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread David Durst
> Let's take Eclipse who is nothing more that a glorified editor written > in Java. It takes some 30 CPU seconds just to start in a 450 MHz > K6/2. Isn't that slow enough? > > JFM As I said GUI is not very good in Java, but making a blanket statement that Java is s

Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread David Durst
> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 16:45, JD wrote: > >> I remember soffice 5.1 & 5.2 that was so java..., thanks goodness it's >> gone! > > Interesting thing then that soffice 5.x is (and 6 still is) written in > C++. It's just the scripting engine which uses the Java runtime. > > Klaasjan Then I am wonderi

Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread Klaasjan Brand
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 16:45, JD wrote: > I remember soffice 5.1 & 5.2 that was so java..., thanks goodness it's > gone! Interesting thing then that soffice 5.x is (and 6 still is) written in C++. It's just the scripting engine which uses the Java runtime. Klaasjan -- Psyche-list mailing lis

Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread Jean Francois Martinez
Le mar 28/01/2003 à 22:35, David Durst a écrit : > H, the amazing thing is a I have now read all of the posts > in reply to my original and still don't have a clear view if > anyone else has experience this issue. > > I would really not devel into the politics of Java on Linux as > I have befo

Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread David Durst
H, the amazing thing is a I have now read all of the posts in reply to my original and still don't have a clear view if anyone else has experience this issue. I would really not devel into the politics of Java on Linux as I have before, but let me say this I think it is both Sun and Redhats at

Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread JD
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 06:23, Mario Torre wrote: If 'java' were an adjective, than that should mean slow, no alias fonts that are so ugly, ugly colors here and there; in short, it has a kind of primitive look. It might be very funny for me to say that because I was also born in that island, Java;

Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread Mario Torre
Il mar, 2003-01-28 alle 13:47, Jean Francois Martinez ha scritto: > Le mar 28/01/2003 à 11:26, Mario Torre a écrit : > If my memory is good it is related to Java licensing. In other words > Sun not RedHat is the guilty. Yes, this is true, in fact I'm not accusing Red Hat to be guilty of anythin

Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:07:52PM +0100, Patrick wrote: > I have not yet seen a 1.0.2 srpm on rawhide or somewhere else. Truetype > Fonts and the menus in 1.0.2 look quite good although I don't know if > that should be classified as "supporting anti-aliasing". Get the tarball > and the specfile fr

Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread Patrick
I have not yet seen a 1.0.2 srpm on rawhide or somewhere else. Truetype Fonts and the menus in 1.0.2 look quite good although I don't know if that should be classified as "supporting anti-aliasing". Get the tarball and the specfile from the 1.0.1-8 srpm on rawhide and give it a shot if you have a r

Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread Jean-Eric Cuendet
> Iirc OpenOffice.org version 1.0.2 enjoys significant speed increases > compared to version 1.0.1. Do you know of a RH8 build that has anti-aliasing? -jec -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread Patrick
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 13:47, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > Given how long OpenOffice takes to load and how slow it is at relatively > trivial tasks I shudder when thinking about a "complete" > openoffice and still more when thinking that the missing parts would > be i Java. Until the perform

Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread Jean Francois Martinez
Le mar 28/01/2003 à 11:26, Mario Torre a écrit : > Il mar, 2003-01-28 alle 10:17, David Durst ha scritto: > > I am not sure if open office is still Java depended in some way. > > > > But I recently discovered after installing the J2SDK 1.4.1 that > > it ceased to function. > > > > Does anyone hav

Re: Open Office & JRE 1.4.1

2003-01-28 Thread Mario Torre
Il mar, 2003-01-28 alle 10:17, David Durst ha scritto: > I am not sure if open office is still Java depended in some way. > > But I recently discovered after installing the J2SDK 1.4.1 that > it ceased to function. > > Does anyone have any insight??? If you use the default OpenOffice shipped in