Linked by David Adams on Tue 23rd Aug 2005 16:06 UTC, submitted by Mark Brunelli
OpenOffice.org instructor Solveig Haugland explains why the upcoming OpenOffice 2.0 is set to make her job a whole lot easier. She says, "As an OpenOffice.org and StarOffice trainer, I teach a lot of one-day classes on the core software features. As I introduce the program and then word processor (Writer), spreadsheet (Calc) and presentation maker (Impress), I teach students how to deal with the oddities of each application before we get into the primary lessons. My first half hour of each section is gone." 
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Who cares if it's slightly slower than MS Office? The thing that turns me off about it is how remarkably ugly it is to look at. I run Ubuntu Hoary, and OpenOffice's interface uses different, squashed fonts, a darker widget color, and gradients and selection colors which completely mismatch with the theme I'm using (Clearlooks; the default).
Is there some particular reason that the OpenOffice people go out of their way to make their program look worse than any other application (save for GTK1 apps)? I use Abiword because it's quicker, and it doesn't clash so glaringly with the rest of my desktop that it makes me want to spoon my eyes out.