[osol-discuss] Anybody in OpenSolaris land run in to this bug in Open Office?
I've had users complain about this bug before: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/16/openoffice_autofilter_bug_feature/ The reason I'm bringing it up in OpenSolaris discuss is because my long term goal in life is to eventually get every installed copy of Microsoft Office that exists in the world replaced with a copy of Open Office, but this bug is one of the things that I think unfortunately stands in the way of mass adoption of OOo and a mass migration away from Microsoft Office in the enterprise. Here's the bug ID's: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2977 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=33851 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=89232 Anybody know if this was ever fixed? If it was, in what version was it fixed in? This bug has been floating around in one form or another for almost 7 and a half years now. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Anybody in OpenSolaris land run in to this bug in Open Office?
Anon Y Mous wrote: I've had users complain about this bug before: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/16/openoffice_autofilter_bug_feature/ The reason I'm bringing it up in OpenSolaris discuss is because my long term goal in life is to eventually get every installed copy of Microsoft Office that exists in the world replaced with a copy of Open Office, but this bug is one of the things that I think unfortunately stands in the way of mass adoption of OOo and a mass migration away from Microsoft Office in the enterprise. Here's the bug ID's: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2977 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=33851 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=89232 Anybody know if this was ever fixed? If it was, in what version was it fixed in? This bug has been floating around in one form or another for almost 7 and a half years now. I followed the instructions in 2977 and the text XX was still intact. This was with the development edition "dev300_m53" (future v3.2). http://download.openoffice.org/next/index.html Paul ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Anybody in OpenSolaris land run in to this bug in Open Office?
> I followed the instructions in 2977 and the text XX was still intact. > This was with the development edition "dev300_m53" (future v3.2). > http://download.openoffice.org/next/index.html Awesome! Now all we need to do is start lobbying all of the schools, universities, and government agencies around the world to switch to OpenOffice when their Office 2003 licenses expire. This could be a very successful grass-roots marketing campaign! Once OpenOffice.org is dominant in schools, universities, government, etc. then Oracle can work it's magic to try to get the Fortune 500 corporations to switch over. The user interface for Open Office is much more like the traditional "File Edit View Insert Format Help" U.I. found in Microsoft Office 2003 than Microsoft's very own Office 2007 is. Office 2007 completely gave up the familiar U.I. they've had since Office 97, and the new "ribbon" user interface (shown below): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2007 confuses the heck out of long time Microsoft Windows users and makes it very difficult for them to be productive at work and school. I think it's fair to say that Office 2007 has gotten an even more negative reaction than Windows Vista got when it first came out (be warned that there is some vulgarity and crude language used to describe the new features in Office 2007 at some of the links below, may not be suitable for minors): http://keystoneisit.blogspot.com/2008/02/top-4-reasons-office-2007-sucks.html http://rantsnraves.org/showthread.php?t=7861 http://www.office2007sucks.net/ http://www.slate.com/id/2158652/ If you want to get the old "File Edit View Insert Format Help" menu in Office 2007, you have to buy it from a Microsoft Partner for an extra $30 on top of the $150 regular price of Office 2007! Right now would be the perfect time to launch an offensive to get people to "upgrade" from Office 2003 to openoffice.org instead of upgrading to the much hated and maligned Office 2007. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Anybody in OpenSolaris land run in to this bug in Open Office?
> I followed the instructions in 2977 and the text XX > was still intact. > This was with the development edition "dev300_m53" > (future v3.2). How can I have both a stable OOo 3.1 and a development OOo version installed at the same time in OpenSolaris 2009.06? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Anybody in OpenSolaris land run in to this bug in Open Office?
I dont know, but one way is to use IPS, then a new BE will be created. You install them both via IPS, and will have in GRUB: 1. StableOOo31 2. DevOOo And then you choose which to boot from. Another way is to use Zones and install them in separate Zones - then you can run them at the same time. Or via VirtualBox. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Anybody in OpenSolaris land run in to this bug in Open Office?
Thommy M. Malmström wrote: I followed the instructions in 2977 and the text XX was still intact. This was with the development edition "dev300_m53" (future v3.2). How can I have both a stable OOo 3.1 and a development OOo version installed at the same time in OpenSolaris 2009.06? If you install it from their setup/upgrade utilities (basically a pkgadd/pkgrm script) it should be able to live along side the released product. $ ls -al /opt ... ... drwxr-xr-x 4 root bin 512 Jul 24 11:54 ooo-dev drwxr-xr-x 7 root bin 512 Jul 24 11:52 ooo-dev3 drwxr-xr-x 5 root bin 512 Apr 30 12:29 openoffice.org drwxr-xr-x 7 root bin 512 Apr 30 12:29 openoffice.org3 ... ... drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 512 Jun 15 23:26 staroffice8 $ Staroffice8 shares the openoffice.org directory. As you can see the development directory is separate from the openoffice 3.1 (openoffice.org3) directory. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Anybody in OpenSolaris land run in to this bug in Open Office?
I just tested with OOo 3.1 (the default install in OpenSolaris 2009.06) and with the development version of upcoming 3.2 (DEV300_m53) also in OpenSolaris 2009.06 and I couldn't reproduce the bug in either of them. Can this just be hearsay? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Anybody in OpenSolaris land run in to this bug in Open Office?
> I just tested with OOo 3.1 (the default install in
> OpenSolaris 2009.06) and with the development version
> of upcoming 3.2 (DEV300_m53) also in OpenSolaris
> 2009.06 and I couldn't reproduce the bug in either of
> them. Can this just be hearsay?
Hi Thommy,
A small correction I might add: the OpenSolaris 2009.06 LiveCD does not seem to
come with OOo (as far as I can tell).
As of yesterday, only OOo 3.0 was in the default repo. This is the last
version of OOo where this bug still exists.
But as of today, the repository has been updated, and the version of OOo has
been elevated to 3.1. As you correctly pointed out, this notorious bug no
longer shows up!!! (I am sure this repository update has nothing to do with
Anon's post. :-) )
AFAIC Sun's OpenSolaris developers made a very smart decision in not including
OOo in the 2009.06 LiveCD. The Solaris version of OOo (3.0 and prior) also
contains another deadly bug in that it has problems displaying some Chinese
characters when running in OpenSolaris (but not in the Solaris proper or any
other OS).
Can anyone imagine Sun tries to promote a product in China which implies a
great contempt for China's current and next-in-line presidents? Both of their
names were badly garbled in {OOo+OpenSolaris}. As I mentioned in other
threads, this problem is also solved in OOo 3.1. But it understandably was not
yet ready to be included in the 2009.06 LiveCD.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Anybody in OpenSolaris land run in to this bug in Open Office?
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: I just tested with OOo 3.1 (the default install in OpenSolaris 2009.06) and with the development version of upcoming 3.2 (DEV300_m53) also in OpenSolaris 2009.06 and I couldn't reproduce the bug in either of them. Can this just be hearsay? Hi Thommy, A small correction I might add: the OpenSolaris 2009.06 LiveCD does not seem to come with OOo (as far as I can tell). As of yesterday, only OOo 3.0 was in the default repo. This is the last version of OOo where this bug still exists. But as of today, the repository has been updated, and the version of OOo has been elevated to 3.1. As you correctly pointed out, this notorious bug no longer shows up!!! (I am sure this repository update has nothing to do with Anon's post. :-) ) OpenOffice 3.1 has been in the repository for a month now at least I believe. Perhaps you missed it accidentally? Cheers, -- Shawn Walker ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Anybody in OpenSolaris land run in to this bug in Open Office?
> >> I just tested with OOo 3.1 (the default install in > >> OpenSolaris 2009.06) and with the development > version > >> of upcoming 3.2 (DEV300_m53) also in OpenSolaris > >> 2009.06 and I couldn't reproduce the bug in either > of > >> them. Can this just be hearsay? > > > > Hi Thommy, > > > > A small correction I might add: the OpenSolaris > 2009.06 LiveCD does not seem to come with OOo (as far > as I can tell). > > > > As of yesterday, only OOo 3.0 was in the default > repo. This is the last version of OOo where this bug > still exists. > > > > But as of today, the repository has been updated, > and the version of OOo has been elevated to 3.1. As > you correctly pointed out, this notorious bug no > longer shows up!!! (I am sure this repository update > has nothing to do with Anon's post. :-) ) > > OpenOffice 3.1 has been in the repository for a month > now at least I > believe. Perhaps you missed it accidentally? > > Cheers, > -- > Shawn Walker You could be right, as I remember I forgot to do a repo update when I installed OOo last night. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
