050123 Sven K?hler wrote: >> can anyone tell me briefly what the difference is >> between Open Office (vanilla) & Open-Office-Ximian ? >> i'm a long-time user of OO-vanilla compiled in full, >> but thought i would try something different in hopes of learning. >> the Ximian WWW site doesn't offer any explanation >> & after emerging both (OO bin , OO-Ximian 4 h 30 m ) >> all i can see is a different set of buttons in the window. > OpenOffice (vanilla) uses QT. > Ximian/Novell has rewritten the GUI to use GTK, > so if you're a gnome user, than you'd might like to test OO-Ximian.
well well ! you learn something everyday ! or several things ... i had no idea it was a QT/Gtk thing. i have enough of KDE installed to run the desktop (i don't usually) & enough of Gnome/Gtk to run G-type apps, so it makes no difference here. thanx for the enlightenment. anyone have comments re performance, pros/cons etc ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
