[discuss] Online usage?
Hi, is there any plans or talk about making it possible to use OpenOffice as an online tool? What I mean is that OO will reside on a server from which you can run its applications by accessing them via internet. Like this you don't need to install it on the machine you are using. There are a number of reasons why this could be a useful feature like traveling, mobility, space problems and so on... Regards / Tomas -- *BYTEK Systems AB, Sweden* *Tomas Nopp* Customer Relations Manager Office : +46 8 55922456 Mobile : +46 76 2353670 Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.bytek.se http://www.bytek.se - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Online usage?
Tomas Nopp wrote: Hi, is there any plans or talk about making it possible to use OpenOffice as an online tool? What I mean is that OO will reside on a server from which you can run its applications by accessing them via internet. Like this you don't need to install it on the machine you are using. There are a number of reasons why this could be a useful feature like traveling, mobility, space problems and so on... Regards / Tomas If you use Linux you can already do this - install OpenOffice on a server, and then have Linux clients ssh into the server and run OpenOffice, exporting the display to the client computer. I'm not sure what the performance over the internet would be like, but on a LAN it works fine ( I just tested this ). Over ADSL2 it should be fine also. As for implementing other ways of doing this - it's not going to happen. OpenOffice is a very complicated suite, and providing a rich GUI to a client that doesn't have OpenOffice installed is just not feasible without an existing framework for providing network transparency - as X does under Linux. You are most certainly not going to have some Java applet serving up an office suite. Developers have enough work on their hands just getting 2.0 released without having to rewrite the entire GUI to use Java widgets. The 'space' argument for providing this functionality is also pretty unusual. OpenOffice takes up 268 MB on my system. That's nothing - even on laptops. If you want convience, buy yourself a USB memory stick, and put an OpenOffice installer on it. Then you can install OpenOffice wherever you go. Yay! -- Daniel Kasak IT Developer NUS Consulting Group Level 5, 77 Pacific Highway North Sydney, NSW, Australia 2060 T: (+61) 2 9922-7676 / F: (+61) 2 9922 7989 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.nusconsulting.com.au - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Online usage?
Hi, is there any plans or talk about making it possible to use OpenOffice as an online tool? What I mean is that OO will reside on a server from which you can run its applications by accessing them via internet. Like this you don't need to install it on the machine you are using. There are a number of reasons why this could be a useful feature like traveling, mobility, space problems and so on... Regards / Tomas -- *BYTEK Systems AB, Sweden* -- I think that there are other systems that are thinking of this. One would not have to worry about upgrading either. The only difficulty that I see is what if you cannot connect to the server of choice. There was talk of someone having a live CD, that is you could have OOo (and other apps) on a CD and just pop the CD into your drive and use it. (Also, a jump drive.) Have not heard too much about these things lately. Chris - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Online usage?
Daniel wrote: unusual. OpenOffice takes up 268 MB on my system. My OOo 1.1.5 English (UK) directory: 164 MB / 2 181 Files / 133 Folders My OOo 1.1.4 English(UK) directory: 333 MB / 2 316 Files / 128 Folders My OOo 1.1.3-ZA directory: 453 MB / 4 395 Files / 258 Folders My OOo 1.9.125 English(US) directory: 355 MB / 3 277 Files / 323 Folders In theory, they all contain the same dictionaries, and other customizations. I _think_ it my OOo 1.1.2 (Japanese) directory, which after I added my normal customizations, was 600+ MB in size. xan jonathon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
