On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 09:50, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 09:09:55 at 09:09:55AM +0200, Klaasjan Brand (kjb@xxxxxx) wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 19:21, M. Fioretti wrote: > > > > I've seen it before. Seems a bug in the openoffice text renderer. > > Scrolling the document a bit down and back makes it go away. > > This time it didn't, that's why I posted. Only opening another program > over it, and then closing that other window made it go away. Could be XFree86 buffering the mis-drawn text... but that's a wild guess. > > Openoffice > > uses its own toolkit, so no other apps should have the same problem. > > No idea if it's fixed in the 1.1 beta. > > OK, we'll see. It (the "own toolkit" that is) confirms my own idea > that cross platform *applications*, with all the extra design/ > maintenance effort implied, are definitely not the best way to go for > desktop integration/Free computing in general. Well, you're free to port openoffice to gtk anytime ;) Klaasjan