It would appear that many news organisations have picked up on the OpenOffice Aqua news wrongly. OpenOffice are only going to preview the latest Aqua build at the OpenOffice conference and Apple Expo in Paris, next month. Pages that have picked up on the story and claim that the OpenOffice Mac Porting Team are going… Continue reading OpenOffice Aqua picked up wrong
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OpenOffice Aqua is coming along nicely
I’ve been playing around with one of Eric Bachard’s recent Intel OpenOffice Aqua builds. Although it crashes a lot, it does work to some degree. The crash reporter has a crashing bug in it so I had to disable it using the startup switch -norestore. Eric had said to me not to run the registration… Continue reading OpenOffice Aqua is coming along nicely
Updated Mac Website plan
Please look at slides 11 – 13, as these contain all the changes. Primarily, I have added what I think should be in the user and developer sections of the mac porting web site. http://smsm1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ooo/MacPortingWebSite.pdfhttp://smsm1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ooo/MacPortingWebSite.odp To see the current draft please look at http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/testing/index.html
X11 Intel having same problem as PPC fixed in 10.4.3
It would appear that X11 Intel on my MacBook doesn’t work due to a problem with the windows not coming to the front as expected. This was fixed in Mac OS X 10.4.3, and is now there in 10.4.6 Intel. Is anyone else getting the problem? I need X11 for using OpenOffice 2, and it… Continue reading X11 Intel having same problem as PPC fixed in 10.4.3
why.openoffice.org
Is it any wonder people go about pirating MS product? Their licensing is so complicated I just take one look and run away, it’s that complicated. Now there putting anti-piracy software into their MS-products. One week later and OpenOffice is starting a switch campaign. I have also added the getOpenOffice.org logo to my blog.
2006 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One interesting thing that I noticed on the Wikipedia is that there is the predicted release of the Aqua version of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X
OpenOffice.org is 5 Today
Today, 13 October 2005 is OpenOffice’s fifth birthday today. The project has come a long way in the past five years, with the imminent release of version two, which is currently in release candidate stage. I’m currently using Eric B’s latest build for Mac OS X, which is the best build I have seen so… Continue reading OpenOffice.org is 5 Today
OpenOffice 1.9.107 Mac OS X
I have installed eric b’s latest build of OpenOffice. Seems to be working better. Not done any great testing in it.