Hi, I also can confrm that Writer is stable but the last time I tried to use impress it crashed frequently.
Going back to the original question I believe it is save to say that we have currently no hint that Sunoracle is working on OO on JavaFX. Ah, these keynotes announcements..... Cheers, Lars On 22 Jul., 06:09, Dick Wall <dickw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I too will attest to the reliability of open-office. I used it to > write 100,000 words for the podcasting book (which might get published > one day if I ever actually manage to finish it) and in 100,000 words > it never crashed once nor lost any data at all. This is when I became > a fan of it (it is also a good writing tool). I was even working with > a fairly arcane and intricate word template that th on JavaFe publisher used > for markup. > > I was running it on linux, and I don't have a lot of experience with > the other packages (calc, draw, etc.) but these seem to work fine on > the rare and short occasions that I use them. For writing though, > oowriter is excellent (all of my developer.com articles are produced > on it as well). I do wish the drawing package was better though > (something more like omnigraffle than lego blocks :-) ). > > Cheers > > Dick > > On Jul 21, 10:36 pm, edencane <edenc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hey. > > > What are you talking about? OpenOffice is great! > > Starts up in under 10 seconds on my box (Kubuntu 9.04) > > Never had it crash. The concept was to emulate MS office and that was > > done extremely well. > > I have no problem with non-responsiveness or sluggishness. Its fast > > and direct. > > (Admittedly opening the file open/save dialog takes long for some > > reason). > > . > > What hardware and OS are you running it on? > > > I sincerely hope that this product will stay alive. > > As long as the several web office products are not feature complete, > > OO will be my favourite. > > Im so glad theres an alternative to gimicky, eye-candy driven, top- > > heavy MS office. > > > The VM has the future. Doesnt matter which language the new office > > will be written in. > > There's going to be a office suite on the VM and hotspot is looking > > really good. > > All you need is bytecode. > > > Kr. > > Luke. > > > On Jul 21, 1:54 am, Massimo <massimohei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I hate to say it, but OpenOffice is a mess. Even on 3.1, it still > > > crashes during routine use, it's got long start-up times, the > > > interface is sluggish and non-responsive, the GUI design is clunky, > > > and the plug-in development is really complicated. > > > > ThinkFree office suite is written in Java, and that has a way faster > > > start-up time, is way more responsive, and is far more stable than > > > OpenOffice. The big problems with ThinkFree were that it had a giant > > > irritating ad-banner, it tried to make you use it's web file hosting > > > rather than local files, and it doesn't do OpenDocument (or similar) > > > file formats. > > > > I'd love to see a great free office suite built in Java. The demand is > > > there, but unfortunately, there is no direct financial incentive to > > > build such a product. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
