[gobolinux-users] open office versus OO.o

[Rohan Nicholls]

I think I might weigh in here.  Yes OO.o is bloaty (of course as I use 
emacs to do everything I guess I shouldn't talk), but I have tried using 
Koffice and it falls down in one important area if you are trying to woo 
people off M$ Office.  Compatibility.  This has turned me away from the 
lighter alternatives time and time again.  Too often I am dealing with 
people on Windows, in fact, that is the only reason I ever go near an 
office "suite" of any sort as I personally think they are evil.

If I have to talk to Word users I need something that will not only 
translate a word document into something legible, but also be able to 
convert my changes back to .doc so the other person can read it.  In a 
live CD you want to have an out of the box useable system, and this 
would be one criteria that should be (and is) addressed.  If the KOffice 
suite manages to handle M$ Office file formats properly, I am the first 
person to advocate switching, but until they do, I would suggest leaving 
it in there.  It was very disappointing as AbiWord (also lightweight) 
has a hidden emacs bindings setting.

Btw.  I have searched long and hard for a way to be able to read and 
write Excel sheets in emacs, so you can see how much OO.o would be 
against all I believe in. :-)

Rohan

Andy Feldman wrote:
> I agree. Since Gobo is a somewhat KDE-focused distro, maybe we could get 
> KOffice instead?
> 
> On 7/15/06, *chad jensen* < chadjensenster at gmail.com 
> <mailto:chadjensenster at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I was wondering why the use of openoffice in gobo? Where it is a one
>     cd distro space is limited. I checked the tarball sizes of each
>     office suite and and open office was about 4 times bigger. What
>     features are there in OO.o that justify that much bloat, especially
>     on a one cd distro?
> 
>     Chad
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