2007/11/19, Leslie Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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
Les, I agree with you on most points. The Mac porting team is obviously very busy, but I think it's a pity that there isn't an effort to update the Mac porting pages about Leopard. Maybe it's because for the moment, the continuous Leopard X11 updates don't make it any easier to start using OOo on Leopard... Still: I feel the Mac OOo users are a bit orphaned right now, and the easiest way then is to switch to NeoOffice. -- Guy using dutch OOo 2.3 m221 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo 2.3 RC 3 on a G4 PPC Powerbook Tiger -- please reply only to [email protected] -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
