LibreOffice now in Squeeze Backports

[SoulSingin]

And it's a big improvement over its predecessor.
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[MrJames]

Care to expand on "big improvement"?

[SoulSingin]

Care to expand on "big improvement"?

On my KDE4 system, it opens files a heck of a lot faster. I've got a fast processor and a lot of RAM, but -- in the version of OpenOffice.org in Squeeze -- it would often take 5 or 10 seconds just to change folders. Now, changing folder is instantaneous. That's a big improvement.

More trivially, it also looks nicer. I like the cleaner and more colorful icons.
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[bmc5311]

and 'libre' is way more avant garde then 'open' ....

seriously though, it does seem like it's less clunky.

[mojoman]

[...] it opens files a heck of a lot faster.

You mean it feels faster?

Just kidding. I've been running it on wheezy for some time now. It does start up quicker. Seldom use the office suit at home though so I can't really say that I've noticed any difference on functionality myself but the icons are prettier and that's really the only criteria I use when I choose a software.

[MrJames]

Man, OpenOffice on my KDE Squeeze looks like crap even with qtcurve. Widgets are missing their tops and bottoms (a few pixels) and there is a 2 pixel gap between the window frame and the client area. I then compiled oxygen-gtk and installed it. Looks OK but weird as it now looks different from the rest of the system.
Purged it and now got koffice installed. Not too bad actually. Does everything a Average Joe office suite user would need to do. I'm liking koffice. Also integrates wonderfully with the rest of KDE and especially Konqueror.

How's LibreOffice rendering?

Edit: I believe certain huge projects like an office suite would be done much better and faster if the devs from the hundred or so separate identical projects and/or forks of projects would focus and combine their efforts on a single project that supports everything with separate unifiedoffice-kde and unifiedoffice-gnome packages to provide DE specific stuff. They could use a single code base that provides a different UI style and layout based on the DE one is using. I also believe I could be way wrong...

[Lou]

I opened it, and went:
Tools > Options > Memory >

and changed:

Code: Select all

Use for Libreoffice to = 120 MB
and Memory per object = 20MB


Opens faster now

[Beewolf]

Man, OpenOffice on my KDE Squeeze looks like crap even with qtcurve. Widgets are missing their tops and bottoms (a few pixels) and there is a 2 pixel gap between the window frame and the client area. I then compiled oxygen-gtk and installed it. Looks OK but weird as it now looks different from the rest of the system.

There's a libreoffice-kde package; have you tried installing that?

Edit: I believe certain huge projects like an office suite would be done much better and faster if the devs from the hundred or so separate identical projects and/or forks of projects would focus and combine their efforts on a single project that supports everything with separate unifiedoffice-kde and unifiedoffice-gnome packages to provide DE specific stuff. They could use a single code base that provides a different UI style and layout based on the DE one is using. I also believe I could be way wrong...

That doesn't mean progress will be any faster - Mesa has no competitors and it still doesn't support OpenGL 3.

[MrJames]

Man, OpenOffice on my KDE Squeeze looks like crap even with qtcurve. Widgets are missing their tops and bottoms (a few pixels) and there is a 2 pixel gap between the window frame and the client area. I then compiled oxygen-gtk and installed it. Looks OK but weird as it now looks different from the rest of the system.

There's a libreoffice-kde package; have you tried installing that?

Edit: I believe certain huge projects like an office suite would be done much better and faster if the devs from the hundred or so separate identical projects and/or forks of projects would focus and combine their efforts on a single project that supports everything with separate unifiedoffice-kde and unifiedoffice-gnome packages to provide DE specific stuff. They could use a single code base that provides a different UI style and layout based on the DE one is using. I also believe I could be way wrong...

That doesn't mean progress will be any faster - Mesa has no competitors and it still doesn't support OpenGL 3.

1. Yeah, I tried it. Alters the dialog boxes but not the rendering.
2. Programming an office suite or a web browser is nowhere near as hard as programming mesa. Very few volunteer programmers have the know how to commit to mesa. Also, OpenGL 3 support requires use of patented stuff, if I'm not mistaken.