Guy Voets wrote:
Personally, I'm sticking with OOo 2.3 under X11 on Tiger until the X11 saga
is solved, rather than switching to NeoOffice...
For updates for X11 or Xquartz: http://www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin (actually at
update 11: 1.2a11)
Hi Guy, it is a matter of personal taste and comfort indeed. I have been
following the saga in the mailing list, and it seems that some users are
having serious issues with X11--crashing, lost focus in X11 windows, and
worse. Ben Byer himself, Apple's sole X11 programmer, is working
diligently to keep on top of the bug reports. On my Leopard machine, the
only problem I have with OOo/X11 is the length of time the thing takes
to start up if X11 isn't running in the first place. It chugs along for
what seems ages, then the "Command timed out" message box we all know
about pops up. Clicking OK gets OOo rolling fine. The work around is to
have X11 running first. However, the discussion in the X11 list has
focussed a lot on concerns with this delay in "cold-starting" X11
applications, and indeed the whole idea, ideally, is that the enduser
should not worry about starting it manually--it should flash up quickly
and reliably when you click on an icon of a program that needs the X11
server.
In the meantime--and yes I know what list I am writing to at
present--NeoOffice seems a good compromise for the user who doesn't want
to wrestle with getting used to another windowing system within the Mac
OS. Mac users who want to use Neo should be advised that this list
doesn't officially offer support to that port, but trinity.neoffice.org
has lots of support to offer.
That all said, OOo is the original, and I for one am really keen to see
a fairly stable beta release for the Aqua version.
Les
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