Re: [discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-21 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi Douglas, Douglas St.Clair wrote: RANT ON H. First I'm generally pleased with OO. Good feature set. Nothing I have cared about was ever broken. However a monolithic architecture seems like a poor choice for an open source project. I don't know anything about the organization

Re: [discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-20 Thread Matt Sturgeon
does that meen if i was to delete OpenOffice.exe and then run OpenOfficeWriter.exe, it would not work? 2008/10/20 John W Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 19, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Douglas St.Clair wrote: On Oct 19, 2008, at 5:48 PM, John W Kennedy wrote: On Oct 19, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Matt

Re: [discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-20 Thread Matt Sturgeon
I just tested and your 100% right. 2008/10/20 Matt Sturgeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] does that meen if i was to delete OpenOffice.exe and then run OpenOfficeWriter.exe, it would not work? 2008/10/20 John W Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 19, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Douglas St.Clair wrote: On Oct 19,

Re: [discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-20 Thread Douglas St.Clair
RANT ON H. First I'm generally pleased with OO. Good feature set. Nothing I have cared about was ever broken. However a monolithic architecture seems like a poor choice for an open source project. I don't know anything about the organization of the OO team but I would assume that

Re: [discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-19 Thread Matt Sturgeon
As far as i can tell, Open office has a program to open its applications, but all these applications are separate, as you can run them directly, by opening them in your file browser. you can open a Calc program, for example, from the writer application, but what happens is Writter closes and Calc

Re: [discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-19 Thread John W Kennedy
On Oct 19, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Matt Sturgeon wrote: As far as i can tell, Open office has a program to open its applications, but all these applications are separate, as you can run them directly, by opening them in your file browser. you can open a Calc program, for example, from the writer

Re: [discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-19 Thread Douglas St.Clair
On Oct 19, 2008, at 5:48 PM, John W Kennedy wrote: On Oct 19, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Matt Sturgeon wrote: As far as i can tell, Open office has a program to open its applications, but all these applications are separate, as you can run them directly, by opening them in your file browser. you

Re: [discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-19 Thread John W Kennedy
On Oct 19, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Douglas St.Clair wrote: On Oct 19, 2008, at 5:48 PM, John W Kennedy wrote: On Oct 19, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Matt Sturgeon wrote: As far as i can tell, Open office has a program to open its applications, but all these applications are separate, as you can run them

Re: [discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-18 Thread Martin Bloomberg
Hello I had no problem installing only those applications I needed both in version 2 and the new 3 The start of the process both with the simple installation and the advanced set-up gives the option to chose whatever one requires In my case I install the writer, spreadsheet, database and extras

Re: [discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-18 Thread John W Kennedy
On Oct 18, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Martin Bloomberg wrote: Hello I had no problem installing only those applications I needed both in version 2 and the new 3 The start of the process both with the simple installation and the advanced set-up gives the option to chose whatever one requires In

[discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-16 Thread philipp . wegner
Hello, I am only interested in the calc application by open office but yet I had to download the entire package. Phil Schon gehört? Bei WEB.DE gibt' s viele kostenlose Spiele:

Re: [discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-16 Thread Ian Lynch
On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 18:23 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am only interested in the calc application by open office but yet I had to download the entire package. That's because of the way Openoffice is designed to share code between apps. Changing it would be a very big

Re: [discuss] Make it possible to download only parts of open office

2008-10-16 Thread Graham lauder
On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 18:23 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am only interested in the calc application by open office but yet I had to download the entire package. Phil Hi Phil, That's correct. You have to think of OOo a little differently to other competitor's suites.