[mac] Portable AQUA via USB on Intel

[Clytie Siddall]

Hi everyone :)






1. Installation





I dragged one of the OpenOffice.org icons into my Dock, as instructed.


2. Running the app.











In short, it seems to hook into the OSX interface effectively.

I was able to save a file on my hard drive, using Vietnamese characters.

So far, very good. :D


http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN

I'm keen to test Portable OpenOffice.org, since most Vietnamese users do not have computers of their own, and at best will be accessing them via school, university, work or an Internet café, in short: someone else's computer. We had frantic enquiries back in release cycle OpenOffice.org 2.1 about a portable version. Portable Apps definitely empower people with few resources. The Portable Aqua file downloaded OK. I asked my husband to bring me home a USB thumb drive, hoping 1 GB would be enough. He says it's a "cheap and nasty" brand (the thumb drive, not OpenOffice.org ;) ), but it seems to be working. I followed the instructions, and everything seemed to work. (I volunteer to review the text for the language pack script message windows. ;) ) The language pack install also worked. I was impressed that the language-pack install script found and identified all my different OpenOffice.org installs on my hard drive, as well as the one on the USB drive. I unmounted my USB drive, then remounted it. I clicked on the Writer icon in my Dock, and an OpenOffice.org icon appeared. (This is not really intuitive, because when I came back to the app, I clicked on the Writer icon to return to my document, and it started loading another OpenOffice.org instance. I'm not sure how we get around this, but we really need only one OpenOffice.org icon, or an easier way to remind the user of which icon does what.) The setup process worked. When I clicked on "Finish", instead of the OpenOffice.org splash screen, I saw a blank white rectangle, with a full progress bar down the bottom. The Writer window loaded, slowly, first displaying as a big black rectangle for a while. Inputting text was very slow at first (wait icon shown), but then it sped up. Big plus: the app immediately recognized my keyboard layout choices, and input Vietnamese text correctly. It also picked up on my TextExpander autotext, and on Default Folder X's enhanced Open and Save dialogues. from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)

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