[CLUE-Talk] Re: [CLUE-Tech] MS Office on Linux -- would you?

[Angelo Bertolli]

Yes as someone else mentioned, and I do agree--it IS faster... I guess I 
just agree with you on your points below.  Thanks for the tips on 
turning off the logo.

Another thing OpenOffice needs is a prettier interface.  It's only 
slightly better than StarOffice.  It needs more colors and better icons 
to start with.  Now I'm not suggesting we go to the extreme that MS went 
to with XP, but I do love the Firefox/Thunderbird icons, KDE, Bluecurve 
look, etc.  I'm thinking about creating some icons for OpenOffice myself 
and seeing how far they get (if I can come up with some decent ones).  
Does anyone know the format/sizes the icons should be?

Angelo

Jeff Cann wrote:

>On Wednesday 18 February 2004 8:36 pm, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
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>>[I'm continuing this over on talk.]
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>>One thing I don't like about OpenOffice is that it takes so long to
>>load.  
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>You can change the rc file to remove the splash screen, which increases load 
>times.  Also, definitely upgrade to OO 1.1 -- it's *much* faster on load than 
>OO 1.0.
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>1)  edit the /var/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/sofficerc, which is the 
>system-wide resource control (rc) file for OO, and then:
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>Change:
>	Logo=1
>To:
>	Logo=0
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>and no more splash screen.
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>If you don't know where your sofficerc file is do this:
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>$ locate *.rc | grep office
>/home/jccann/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/sofficerc
>/var/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/sofficerc
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>>It seems to load everything for each individual piece of software
>>in OpenOffice which takes forever the first time.  I guess it's like
>>Mozilla.  Shouldn't they be moving more towards individual office programs?
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>This is an artificat of Star Office 5.x, which has a 'desktop' environment -- 
>all apps are available from the desktop (IMHO, it was quite annoying).  The 
>OO developers pulled apart the individual programs from the desktop, but only 
>superficially for SO 6/OO 1.  Newer releases should add to the separation so 
>that not every application is loaded.
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>Jeff
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