On Saturday 30 June 2018 18:34:25 dep wrote: > On June 30, 2018 8:40 PM, Mike Bird <mgb-trinity@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As other people may read this thread I think it is important to add an > > > > opposing viewpoint. > > > > Unless you are willing to do what Tim and friends did for KDE by taking > > > > on and actively maintaining the project, I cannot recommend OpenOffice > > > > to anyone. > > I have to confess that I pretty much agree. Also, the only issues I have > ever had with LibreOffice are the hellishly difficult, multi-location, > not-well-documented ways of creating defaults in it -- and that's just the > word processor -- and, now, my inability to make the menus and such be the > size that I would like under TDE on the little computer, which I used > successfully all day in the field today for photo and story processing. > When scaling comes to pass, it will be pefect with TDE (and I have no > desire, none at all, to learn a different desktop). > > It's funny -- my first encounter with Open/LibreOffice was when it was > StarOffice and was one of the few complicated programs for the OS/2 > WorkPlace Shell. It was really weird but I liked it. And it was not just an > office suite but an internet suite, with browser, email, the works. I think > it even handled newsgroups. They put out a full-featured demo that worked > for, I think, a month. Then you had to pay, and it wasn't cheap. > > Then Star Division got bought by Sun, which put out a version or two for I > think Windows, then Sun got bought by Oracle. Apache was in there > someplace, if memory serves. OpenOffice.org was the official name of the > free version for some time. Then the LibreOffice fork got going -- wasn't > it because of its friendlier license? -- and pretty soon everything was > LibreOffice. And as I said, my only recent experience with OpenOffice was > first, "Symphony," which was IBM's recycled-from-Lotus fork of OpenOffice, > followed by IBM's own fork of OpenOffice under the OpenOffice.org name, > both of which broke everything they touched. > > Which does seem like a long way around to get the menu fonts I want. > > dep > To each his/her own. Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
