SXCE comes with StarOffice 8, but where does that fit into the OpenSolaris Desktop?
I have a user who's generally been happy since being upgraded from S10 FCS to SXCE build 59. She's a KDE user, so the desktop didn't change much. She hated Firefox 2, so I just installed 1.5 and she was happy. But I am getting complaints about soffice. I'm told that it's much slower overall, that spellcheck in particular is like molasses, and it seems pretty fragile. A quick test and it's not exactly quick, but not much worse that I expected. And spell checking works fine for me. But it's definitely fragile. The first three documents I tried all went wrong - the first sxi had to be recovered; the next doc crashed it, and for the third it simply exited silently. So it's not a good experience, and I wondered what our approach to providing office tools was. (My own general experience is that soffice 7 has been pretty solid and I get on with it pretty well. I have distinctly negative feelings towards openoffice - the insistence on a package rather than a basic installer is a major downer - and when I have used soffice8 or openoffice 2+ I've been unimpressed: it doesn't feel solid, and I get easily irritated by it.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
