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 have any insight??? > > If you use the default OpenOffice shipped in red hat linux 8.0, you are > using an incomplete product. > > I can suggest to download the complete version at OpenOffice.org. > > Some hint may be found here and on the OO user mailing list which > discussed this thread some time ago: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81484 > > The red hat version is more like a "demo" than a real office suite. > They have removed any java support, not only jar classes but even those > programs that help to setup java (jvmsetup and so on). I fear they have > removed also the jni reference in the sources, though I'm not sure. > > I really don't undertstand this choice, there are a lot of company that > support OO, and take advantage from the java components to do office > automation (or better, offer services based on OO). > If my memory is good it is related to Java licensing. In other words Sun not RedHat is the guilty. > This is a note for red hat: if you want to came across windows in the > office market, please, give us a real and usable open office. > The kind of users that have M$Windows and M$Office and do not use any of > the advanced feature of M$Office are either too dump to change or can do > their job even with koffice/abiword/*. We need real support for > OpenOffice and for UNO (and what is worse, in windows it just works!). > > If you don't want to compile the java classes, let us do it by ourself, > but, please, don't remove java references, or we would be unable to > setup java. > > Hope you realize what we are missing, > 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 performance problems of openoffice (I am not suggesting they are in openoffice problem, they could originate in components used in openoffice) aren't solved, a complete openoffice is more likely to deter people from using Linux than to attract them. JFM -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
