OpenOffice.org 1.1.3-kde

Friday, 26 November 2004  |  Jholesovsky

OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 with KDE integration is now available for download. It also features a lot of other improvements over the stock OOo (including the GNOME integration bits; but do not be afraid, it does not link against Gtk+ in KDE, and vice versa), because it is built from the ooo-build codebase.

Download: Installation set for Linux i386 (~80MB).

Features:

  • The current stable version of OpenOffice.org with many ooo-build patches and improvements
  • KDE Native Widget Framework
  • KDE (Crystal) icons
  • KDE file dialog (Open, Save As)
  • KDE splash screen by Dariusz Arciszewski
  • Gtk+ NWF and file dialog when executed in Gnome

Known problems:

  • You need libstartup-notification installed, otherwise it fails to run with "no suitable windowing system found, exiting."
  • The KDE file dialog seems to hang OOo on Fedora Core 3 when it has Preview on (F11 in the dialog), but most probably it is a Fedora bug (treats unrecognized file types as sound).
  • The new systems that build their packages from ooo-build (e.g. SUSE 9.2) do not need this package; check whether you have the KDE file dialog in your OOo before installing.

The project's homepage http://kde.openoffice.org is a bit outdated at the moment, but the work still continues. The main concern is OOo 2.0 now, see the ooo-build ChangeLog.

Help of an artist is needed for OOo 2.0: It contains a lot of new icons, the default ones are not acceptable for modern KDE desktop. Please drop me a mail if you are able (and willing) to draw some of them. :-)

Comments:

wow! - ac - 2004-11-26

Congratulations, Jan. I had no idea you could build OOo to support both KDE and GNOME at the same time! Does it use GNOME icons under GNOME and KDE icons under KDE too? Is this what Novell Linux Desktop uses?

Re: wow! - Jan Holesovsky - 2004-11-26

No, this version has just KDE icons. NLD version has Gnome icons in Gnome and KDE in KDE, and more features (gnome-vfs, Evolution connector, ...)

Re: wow! - ac - 2004-11-26

Cool. So OOo in NLD is also KDE-integrated. You get KDE NWF and filedialog? Any plans to support KDE IO/Slaves? Jan, you just plain rock!

Re: wow! - Xanadu - 2004-11-28

Question: Perhaps I'm info-blind, but, does this "KDE 'Version'" include Crystal only or does it actually inherit the icon theme that the (L)user is currently using? (I'm sorry Everaldo!) I, personally, can't stand Crystal. I use Noia-Warm. Would OOo built on my main machine (gentoo) use Noia icons, or Crystal? I'm sorry to bother you about a trivial a question as this, but I hadn't noticed a better place to post the question. Thanx, all! M.

Re: wow! - Anonymous - 2004-11-28

It's fixed to the included Crystal icons.

what about FreeBSD? - anonymous - 2004-11-28

KDE runs smoothly on FreeBSD! I would love to see a kde-ized version of openoffice running on FreeBSD :)

No download address? - Görkem Çetin - 2004-11-26

The mirrors do not seem to sync, yet. Is there an address we can d/l OOo_1.1.3-kde_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz ?

Re: No download address? - Anonymous - 2004-11-26

ftp.kde.org

Re: No download address? - Görkem Çetin - 2004-11-26

Thanks, the exact ftp URL is: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/packages/ooffice/

RPMs - John SUSE Freak - 2004-11-26

"The new systems that build their packages from ooo-build (e.g. SUSE 9.2) do not need this package; check whether you have the KDE file dialog in your OOo before installing." If SUSE packaged it, why not make those RPMs available at ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/packages/ooffice/

Re: RPMs - Anonymous - 2004-11-26

Because they are SUSE 9.2-specific? The RPMs will become available when the whole SUSE 9.2 RPMs become available (aka SUSE 9.2 FTP Version).

Re: RPMs - John SUSE Freak - 2004-11-26

Kind of, I'm using OO.org 9.1 rpms in SUSE 8.2... I'm not sure there is anything particular about SUSE OO.org rpms. But yes of course your answer is right, I just thought of it because I keep checking the FTP server for OO.org 9.2 rpms...

Re: RPMs - T.K. - 2004-12-03

Suse 9.2 FTP-Installation will be available in mid January 2005, afaik Jsut to help you save some time looking... ;)

Building from source - George Staikos - 2004-11-26

Where are the latest instructions for building this from source? The kde.openoffice.org page seems to be outdated. It was giving me 1.1.1.

Re: Building from source - Anonymous - 2004-11-26

Try http://ooo.ximian.com/ - Hacker's Guide, About ooo-build. > The kde.openoffice.org page seems to be outdated. He already said that. Thanks for repeating.

localization - Michael - 2004-11-26

What about localization? Can I use this package with German menues? When will OOo start to use some modular translation method like KDE does since its beginning...?!

Re: localization - Shulai - 2004-11-28

I support that! For a lot of us, a English-only release is not very useful. And as everybody knows, compiling OOo requires a large computer and a lot of time, so getting the sources DIY is not a desirable approach to many (I'm still writting this in a 1998's computer, go figure).

OpenOffice Ximian - Davide Ferrari - 2004-11-26

I'm running OpenOffice Ximian 1.3.6 built with KDE supports under Gentoo..is your project related to the one I'm talking about? They seems to do the same thing, so I definetely think so, but you never can tell...:)

Re: OpenOffice Ximian - Anonymous - 2004-11-27

It is, read the links of the story.

2.0 - gerd - 2004-11-27

I use OO 2.0 alpha version m62 It is very usable and stable and a huge advantage over 1.1.3 1.1 was lala 2.0 will rock only the Icons look bad but kdefied ... nothing can stop us now...

Re: 2.0 - HelloWorld82 - 2004-11-28

I think that OO alpha is still _not_ usual a all. Really only use it for testing purpose !

bug ? - Alexandre - 2004-11-27

it does not put carecteres as: á à ã â ä. these are used characters in the Portuguese language.

Re: bug ? - Marcelo Barreto Nees - 2004-11-27

Hi Alexandre. It's working for me. I'm using KDE 3.3.1 on Debian (unstable).

Re: bug ? - alexandre - 2004-11-28

what distro you are using? I am using gentoo + kde 3.3.1. (você é brasileiro?)

Eita (pfffeew) - Zab Ert - 2004-11-29

O cara acabou de dizer que usa Debian e você perguta qual distro? (the guy just sai he uses Debian and you ask which distro?)

Re: bug ? - daniele - 2004-11-29

Hi Marcelo!! i saw you're using debian... i'm using kde 3.2 and i tryed to install OOo from the package above... how can i get it working? i 've insatlled with ./setup in a folder /etc/local/OpenOffice and i've tryed ./soffice ... i can see something (splash) and than it crash.... could you help me ?

Re: bug ? - Marcelo Barreto Nees - 2004-11-29

Hi Daniele. I just did the following, as root: # apt-get remove openoffice.org # tar -zxvf OOo_1.1.3-kde_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz # cd OOo_1.1.3-kde_LinuxIntel_install # ./install and then, as a common user: $ /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.3/setup To open the writer (for instance): $ /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.3/program/swriter Are you using Debian woody (stable)?

Re: bug ? - daniele - 2004-11-30

I'm using sarge (testing) , that is to be upgraded ... i sw some packages are considered stable... I've tryied several different installations .. also just installing it as common user, to use it for ex i run ./soffice, i saw the splash and than as i tryed to run an app (swriter) or whatever... it crashed. I'll install it again and i'll report the konqueor's error exactly cu

Re: bug ? - Marcelo Barreto Nees - 2004-11-30

OOo chashes for me when I run ./soffice too. But it works if I run swriter, for example. What occurs if you start swriter this way? $ /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.3/program/swriter

Re: bug ? - daniele - 2004-11-30

Weel i found the reason.... it crashed if i used swriter or ./swriter, i could run soffice and ./soffice but when i chosed new file opening draw, swriter impress and so on ... then it crashed.... i thought it was becouse of the windows style , and kcontrol --- windows style --- changeg in "keramic" --- and it worked . the style i used was "kwin-style-baghira_0.5h-1sarge_i386.deb" under kde 3.2. Now i'm using a different baghira style (0.5.2) and it works perfectly. i was thinking It would be nice if in the next release of kde-openoffice was integrated the "top mac style menu" ... And what about icons.... but this is another story.... thanks marcelo it was a good stimulus to know someone was using this OOo under debian.

Re: bug ? - Anonymous - 2004-11-30

Baghira is also responsible for several other filed application crash reports at bugs.kde.org. Better don't use it.

Re: bug ? - daniele - 2004-11-30

yes but i love it.... now it works perfectly ... PS: i'll open a discussion about icons .... based on this: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7131&vote=good&tan=96629828 http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=8529 take a look ...

Re: bug ? (IMPORTANT, PLEASE FIX THIS) - Björn Spåra - 2005-02-28

Yes, I noticed that too. Looks like when passing non english character file names from KFileDialog (?) on to OOo to actually open the file the name gets mangled due to some charset incompatibillity and an error message is produced. If I try to open a file named "file_with_ö.sxw" in my home dir I get an OOo error dialog saying: "Error loading document file:///home/bjorn/file_with_%F6.sxw: /home/bjorn/file_with_%F6.sxw does not exist." Hope this helps the one who will solve this for all us non english users.. I'm to lazy/stupid/lazy and lazy.. ;) Sayonnara!

Re: bug ? (IMPORTANT, PLEASE FIX THIS) - Patrice Gauvin - 2006-02-16

Giuseppe said to me : There is a bug report for this in qa.mandriva.com, and sound a problem in the kde filepicker, but the same happens into 2.0.1-1mdk but I don't have a patch (and the same bug seems persisting even in latest milestone m156). Note that you can change the dialog box either from env var: export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde or export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome before running ooffice2.0, either from menu Tools/Option/General => Use OpenOffice.org dialogs.

Mac support - Arend jr. - 2004-11-27

Just a funny brainwave, but as Qt is available for the Mac as well, could this ease an OpenOffice.org port for the Mac that doesn't suck like the X11-version does? Does anybody know whether that's planned for the 2.0 version or something?

Re: Mac support - Pete - 2004-11-27

Last I heard 2.0 was supposed to have native mac support. I hope it's true.. The X11 version is barely usable with only one mouse button.

Fedora Core 3 - Anonymous - 2004-11-27

> The KDE file dialog seems to hang OOo on Fedora Core 3 when it has Preview on (F11 in the dialog), but most probably it is a Fedora bug (treats unrecognized file types as sound). The same bug happens here with Fedora's openoffice.org-kde-1.1.2-10.i386.rpm package and selecting eg OOo file types. Must be a messed up KDE packages.

Screenshots???? - KDE Fan - 2004-11-27

Has anyone already made a series of *good*, *meaningful* screenshots of this killer thingie? Could these be made available publicly? So that we can point the press and all interested parties to them? That breakthrough is really, really beautiful. But marketing-wise, KDE sucks. Again.

Re: Screenshots???? - Anonymous - 2004-11-27

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17334 http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17332

Re: Screenshots???? - Anonymous - 2004-11-27

> So that we can point the press and all interested parties to them? Why does the "we" not include creating screenshots? > But marketing-wise, KDE sucks. Again. Who are you that you have the right to complain? What did you offer to help?

Re: Screenshots???? - ac - 2004-11-27

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/27/1458225 http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=8993

Re: Screenshots???? - Anonymous - 2004-11-27

I don't see *any* screenshot linked in those.

Re: Screenshots???? - ac - 2004-11-27

>> But marketing-wise, KDE sucks. Again. <<

Re: Screenshots???? - Anonymous - 2004-11-27

Perhaps it would help if you write some accompanying text rather than just dumping links? :-)

Re: Screenshots???? - paulatz - 2004-11-30

I hope this is good enough for you (SuSE 9.1) http://www.infis.univ.trieste.it/~paulatz/OOo-1.1.3.jpg

KDE (Crystal) icons - James Richard Tyrer - 2004-11-27

Does that mean that the icons are not installed as themeable? I note here that the FreeDeskTop.org icon theme specifications requires that all applications support, in addition to any other icon themes that they support, the fall back icon theme HiColor. This is not just a OOo-KDE issue, it is a problem with many KDE applications. Despite clear instructions: http://developer.kde.org/~larrosa/iconthemes.html "The main point here is that you _must_ install icons to hicolor, and then you can _optionally_ install icons to other icon themes (kdeclassic, ikons, locolor, crystalsvg, etc.)." many KDE applications do not have the required HiColor icons. This appears to be, at least in part, do to a misunderstanding about the exact meaning of "default" icon theme. Crystal is the current "default" icon theme but it is not the fall back icon theme and it must not be treated as though it is the only or standard (unthemed) icon theme. -- JRT

Re: KDE (Crystal) icons - Anonymous - 2004-11-28

> Does that mean that the icons are not installed as themeable? Correct. Looking forward you volunteering to implement it.

Re: KDE (Crystal) icons - cm - 2004-11-28

In fact James is already working in that area (not OOo, but other stuff). And I think he has a point when he says the app developers should get it right in the future. After all, it's not more work to install icons in the correct location instead of the wrong one (this is true at least for KDE apps, dunno about OOo). Fixing incorrect icon locations *is* additional work. What he tried here was increasing the awareness for the problem.

Re: KDE (Crystal) icons - daniele - 2004-11-30

i sow the OOo icons are "bmp" and not "png": for the su ./setup --->/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.3/share/config/symbol for me -----> /home/daniele/.openoffice/share/config/symbol/ i found this script: links : 1) http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=8529 2) http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=7131 i 've tryed it ... i'm not a developer ... it's simplier if you try it than explain... but it's seems it can't work for this OOo, it generate a single bpm with xml file in this folder /home/daniele/.openoffice/share/config/soffice.cfg/ but actually the icons are in /home/daniele/.openoffice/share/config/symbol i think it could be a good idea to fix .... PS* are you sure it's just needed to put the icons (png)in hicolor? ... OOo is linked to bpm ..... or not O_o?

WIll it hurt gnome? - Abel - 2004-11-27

So if i compile and install this onto my gnome 2.8 ubuntu system, it won't hurt it, will it? and will it work right?

Re: WIll it hurt gnome? - Anonymous - 2004-11-27

What do you want with this build if you want to compile with ooo-build? Just choose to compile a full GNOME integrated version then.

Re: WIll it hurt gnome? - Olafur Arason - 2004-11-28

I think this version is building now on the ubuntu for Hoary so tomorrow or Monday it will be available with a simple refresh and update.

Other window managers - Alex - 2004-11-28

I really like the KDE look of OpenOffice.org, but it looks really bad in other window managers. What do I do to enable OO.org's KDE mode under other window managers (e.g. Window Maker)?

Re: Other window managers - Anonymous - 2004-11-28

Set OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde

OOo ... KDE? - J. E. Lang - 2004-11-29

Pardon my ignorance. I've been using OOo for a couple of years at least having started on a Windows platform and moved to Linux (SuSE) with KDE within the past nine months. What is meant by this talk about KDEizing OOo?

Re: OOo ... KDE? - Jan Holesovsky - 2004-11-29

See the slides here: http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~kendy/ooo/SUSE_Labs_Conference-2004/

Re: OOo ... KDE? - Khalid - 2004-11-29

Very nicely done and explained good job !

Mr. - Rôney Eduardo O. Santos - 2004-11-29

Could someone give an overview about the status of the project and the current state, about icon theming, gnome/kde integration in the same build, etc. (once kde.openoffice.org is outdated)?!

Looks cool and all in the screenshots... - MIV - 2004-11-29

...but how do you compile without pam!??! I don't have pam and don't want it. I applied the patch to allow compilation without pam (for OOo 1.1.2, I believe) and it gets past the part where it was dying on pam. But now it's giving me a bunch of lip about 093-norwegian-translation.diff patch failing.

1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Jeff Cann - 2004-11-30

The installer looks fine and the programs, such as swriter open and look great. It's just when I try to File | Open or <CTRL>+O, the dialog *never* appears. Other dialogs like File | Print do seem to work. I appreciate any suggestions. Jeff

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Jeff Cann - 2004-11-30

P.S. When I try to Save or Save As, the app hangs.

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Anonymous - 2004-11-30

What happens if you run "./kdefilepicker" and then "exec <enter>"?

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Jeff Cann - 2004-12-01

./kdefilepicker: error while loading shared libraries: libsal.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Anonymous - 2004-12-01

set LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/OpenOffice.org1.1.3/program before

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Tim NIiler - 2004-12-10

So did this work for anyone? I'm running this with VectorLinux 4.3 (Slackware based). Since I couldn't open or save files, it seemed to be a nice start, but only eye-candy at this point. I've since gone to OOo-1.1.4rc but would migrate backwards if I could get this version to work properly. For me, at least, the icon set makes OOo so much more useable. My wife likes it too. :-)

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Kostas Magkos - 2004-12-13

Not for me (I'm running RH 9.0). I tried setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH but with no luck, I still can't use the Open and Save dialogs. I'm still looking around for a solution though, I really like the kde-integrated interface, let alone it eliminates some printing problems I had with greek fonts.

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Anonymous - 2004-12-13

> So did this work for anyone? This was not intended to "fix" OOo but make the "kdefilepicker" debugging work for Jeff/someone. But as nobody tries it and reports back, how shall it be fixed?

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Tim Niiler - 2004-12-13

Fair enough...I will try it again and send in the debug info sometime this week.

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Kostas Magkos - 2004-12-14

ok, after setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH I ran kdefilepicker and I get: [kmag@pluto program]$ ./kdefilepicker kdefilepicker, an implementation of KDE file dialog for OOo. Type 'exit' and press Enter to finish. exit kdefilepicker: relocation error: kdefilepicker: undefined symbol: _ZN7QString7reserveEj

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Anonymous - 2004-12-14

What Qt version do you have installed? Only Qt 3.1.1 of RedHat 9?

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Kostas Magkos - 2004-12-14

yes, that's right

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Kostas Magkos - 2004-12-14

The same when issuing exec: [kmag@pluto program]$ ./kdefilepicker kdefilepicker, an implementation of KDE file dialog for OOo. Type 'exit' and press Enter to finish. exec kdefilepicker: relocation error: kdefilepicker: undefined symbol: _ZN7QString7reserveEj [kmag@pluto program]$ ./kdefilepicker

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Anonymous - 2004-12-14

> kdefilepicker: relocation error: kdefilepicker: undefined symbol: _ZN7QString7reserveEj Seems to be a symbol introduced by Qt 3.2. So it requires Qt 3.2 (or even 3.3).

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Kostas Magkos - 2004-12-14

Qt > 3.1 requires a KDE upgrade (currently 3.1-13) on my RH 9. Since this is just my desktop at work I have to think twice before doing anything messy and time-consuming. :-( Do you have the slightest idea how easily or diffuculty such an upgrade should go? Thanks anyway for your help!

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Anonymous - 2004-12-14

> Qt > 3.1 requires a KDE upgrade (currently 3.1-13) on my RH 9 Why that? Qt 3.3 is backward compatible. > Do you have the slightest idea how easily or diffuculty such an upgrade should go? Why not install Qt 3.3 in parallel to your current Qt version and write a little script with runs OOo with that Qt installation?

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Kostas Magkos - 2004-12-14

>> Qt > 3.1 requires a KDE upgrade (currently 3.1-13) on my RH9 > >Why that? Qt 3.3 is backward compatible. It's a redhat dependency thing: qt 3.3 depends on redhat-artwork > 0.100 and redhat-artwork 0.100 needs kdebase > 3.2 and then you pretty much need to upgrade the whole kde system. >Why not install Qt 3.3 in parallel to your current Qt version and write a little script with runs OOo with that Qt installation? but still I have to upgrade redhat-artwork....

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - MaxBaldiz - 2004-12-20

Installed on Slackware 9.1. Same issues in "Open" and "Save as" dialog. I have set LD_LIBRARY_PATH as recommended in the post BUT when I try ./kdefilepicker I've a new error message: ./kdefilepicker: /usr/lib/./libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.3' not found (required by /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.3/program/libstdc++.so.5) it seems the package was compiled with GCC3.3 and requires this version of libraries. About to rollback to 1.1.1... 'cause no time and no disk space to upgrade to Slackware 10 and/or to upgrade to GCC3.3....Damn...

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Tim NIiler - 2004-12-20

Try the 1.1.4 release. It is currently working for me just fine. There are no crashes, and they are using their old binary installer.

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Tim Niiler - 2005-01-18

Okay...Here's the synopsis. Back in December, I didn't have a chance to do this and needed the space on my harddrive so I deleted OOO-1.1.3. Since then, I downloaded ooo-build and tried to do it all myself. Everything was peachy in the build except for some complaints about the psprint_config patch (which I implemented manually) and LD_LIBRARY_PATH not finding KDE (I set that manually to include /opt/kde/lib), and then everything compiled. So this morning, I come down and setup my newly baked OOO to see what happened. And everything is fine EXCEPT FOR THE FILE-OPEN DIALOG. Thinking that I just wasted a bunch of time, I am about to delete the thing when I remember the LD_LIBRARY_PATH comment here and note that I also had the same issue in the middle of compiling. I set the variable, and when I restart OOO, the filepicker works fine! Thanks! My impression is that I could have just downloaded the build from here instead of doing it myself and this solution would have still worked. On the plus side, OOO now starts in under 5 seconds on my box. :-)

Re: 1.1.3-KDE on RHAT 9.0 File Open Dialog ? - Jeff Cann - 2004-12-01

BTW - the non KDE 1.1.3 version of Open Office works fine on this same box.

Debian - Qerub - 2004-12-08

Users of Debian can do apt-get install openoffice.org-kde if experimental is in /etc/apt/sources.list

no suitable windowing system found, exiting - Christoph Schütz - 2004-12-19

Hello, the installation of OOo-kde-1.1.3 fails with the following message: no suitable windowing system found, exiting I work with SuSe 9.1 and kde3.2.3. The SuSe version of OOo-kde-1.1.1works fine and OOo-1.1.3 works as well. I like the kde version, so I would be very pleased, if someone can help me. Thanks Christoph

Re: no suitable windowing system found, exiting - Anonymous - 2004-12-20

Read the story! It's listed under "Known problems".

Re: no suitable windowing system found, exiting - Christoph Schütz - 2004-12-20

Sorry! Just read the README included in the package, but it seems to be the original OpenOffice one. It works all well now. Thank you Christoph.

Re: no suitable windowing system found, exiting - Jack - 2005-01-17

So, and where can I find that 'known issues' item at all? It's not in the readme

Re: no suitable windowing system found, exiting - Björn Spåra - 2005-02-12

Look at the top of this page..

Re: no suitable windowing system found, exiting - SuporteTecnicoID - 2005-05-03

to debian, Only Install lib: sudo apt-get install libstartup-notification0

Re: no suitable windowing system found, exiting - Richard Neill - 2005-12-06

On Mandriva, you need to also install libsndfile

1.1.4? - yoyo - 2005-02-22

where is one for 1.1.4? a binary.