On Wednesday 09 April 2003 15:23, Frank Van Damme wrote: > On Wednesday 09 April 2003 13:26, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > OOo is also ridiculous. It should share nore with the other > > > available open source software - such as widgets. I'd be > > > delighted to save my files with those gorgeous QT dialogs instead > > > of the pathetic built-in windows ui clone they use now. I wonder > > > why Sun hasn't used Motif for the Staroffice UI actually. > > > > OOo is ridiculous in so many ways, including a 15min startup time > > on lower-end machines. It's the worst benchmark of anything you > > could possibly pick. > > Yes... bad design, bloat, redundant code, all the horrors in one... > We use it at home because of the good support for MS office formats > though. Yup, actually OOo is the worst software, which I *have* to use everyday. Only for that MS file format support thing. You know funny thing is, instead of tuning it to start faster, in 1.1 beta, they have added a status bar, so that when OOo is starting, you will know how many minutes you have, to go and get a coffee and come back ;-) There was a time, when Sun was known for producing fast, secure and stable code. e.g back in mid 90s, everyone (even their competitors) agreed that Solaris was the best *nix ever. When in 2000 they announced their plan for staroffice/openoffice.Borg I really expected something much better than this bloated piece of ash** It makes me wonder, what happened to that sun? just my $0.02 -- /* My name is Jehovah. I have a special plan to save the universe, but because of heavenly security reasons I can't tell you what that plan is. Your's just going to put your faith in me, because I see the picture and you don't. You know I'm good, because I told you so. If you don't believe me, I'll throw you on my enemies list and throw you in a pit where Infernal Revenue Service will audit your taxes for eternity*/ --RMS Aryan Ameri