[A bit OT]Re: New user questions :)

[Jorn Argelo]

Brian Astill wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:27 am, Jorn Argelo wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>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.
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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.
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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. 
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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