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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Star Office (was Re: info pls)
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-07-19 9:43:39
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On Thursday 19 July 2001 11:30, Phil Jones wrote:
> >    When I changed over to Linux , I found it very disappointing that I
> >    cannot
> >    use StarOffice because of the loooooooooong time it takes to come up.
> 
> Yes, this is a problem, isn't it? It seems to me that Star Office is more 
> than just an application, it's an entire environment. This is annoying to 
> me when I just want to read a Word doc, for instance, and this comes at the 
> price of loading spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, HTML editor, printer 
> configurator, desktop environment, start menu, clock, help tool and even 
> email reader. No wonder it takes yonkoids to start up. You might as well 
> run Star Office on X without a window manager.
> 
> Fortunately now Star Office is now Open Office so Unix hackers can pull it 
> apart and make it more acceptable to us Unix types. This cannot happen 
> soon enough for me!

This is starting to be off topic. Can we talk about KOFFICE on this list please ?

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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