Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 11th Mar 2005 01:32 UTC
Today we feature a mini-interview with Chris Schlaeger of SuSE and Novell. Chris answers some questions about SuSE 9.3.
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>>>>i thoguht the signifigantly enhanced openoffice was staroffice
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...according to Sun Microsystems, yeah. Novell is wearing a different hat though... partly b/c they bought Ximian, which is known for its heavily customized/patched OO.org.
The only component of StarOffice I want is their proprietary thesaurus/spelling/grammar checkers. If they were opened to the OO.org community, the whole Office package would be strengthened. The stock (and downloadable) thesauruses really suck. I'm not sure if things have improved in the 2.0 codeline, but in the 1.x.x series if you wanted to do a quick thesaurus check for an alternate word... it'd give you like every word in the dictionary as a suggestion... many would have absolutely *NOTHING* to do with the original word.
Other than that, I feel OO.org integrates and plays with generic Linux installs much nicer. You really have to play around with options/settings in StarOffice to have it take-on the properties of your current DE. Most of the time, the default look stands out like a sore thumb.
>>>>We've also integrated the File selection dialog so that it uses the native desktop dialogs rather than standard OpenOffice.org dialogs.<<<<
This hasn't really been a problem since 1.1.4, or any of the recent 2.0 builds. Anytime I've changed DE's (KDE or GNOME), the corresponding file selection dialog has appeared.