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Re: Multiplatform Support
by T. J. Brumfield on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @18:58

I use OpenOffice at work since I'm a SysAdmin and get to pick what I use at work, but I still have to share documents with everyone else using MS Office.

My wife is a student and must give documents to instructors who will only accept them in MS formats.

I can preach about ODF all day, but most of the world isn't listening yet. MS Office compatibility is very important, but if you can get some of those users to try OpenOffice on Windows (or KOffice on Windows) they will open their minds about OSS. Then converting them to Linux is easier.

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Re: Multiplatform Support
by Max on Friday 22/Feb/2008, @09:44

Same here. Or I have to OPEN documents my teacher send me. WITH TABLES, MACROS, etc. AND THEY HAVE TO FORMAT CORRECTLY.

I don't care how lightweight an application is, if it can't do basic stuff I need it to do.

Can't we just port openoffice to Qt? Wouldn't that be a smaller application, with a smaller memory footprint?

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Re: Multiplatform Support
by Riddle on Wednesday 27/Feb/2008, @06:15

OpenOffice uses it's own UI toolkit (on Linux, it works with GTK themes). It would be very painful to port it from it's toolkit to make it smaller. Also, KOffice only misses some features because it has less developers than OpenOffice and even without it, it's improving quickly.

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