openoffice.org-1.1.3-5.5.0: bug or feature?
Arthur Pemberton
dalive at flashmail.com
Mon Feb 14 04:04:13 UTC 2005
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I just yumed my way to the latest FC3 release of OpenOffice
> (BTW...thanks to whoever fixed the paste bug). After yum was all done
> I went ahead and start Calc from the menu (I use KDE). Calc loaded
> very quickly ( I estimate that the splash screen lasted for only about
> 25% of it's previous times). However Calc loaded to this very scary
> screen. I used kSnapshot and uploaded the result:
> http://pembo13.dalive.com/snapshot-oocalc-1.1.3.png . Now normally,
> loading an OpenOffice program from the menu leads to a new document
> being opened up for the approprate app. So I had never before seen
> this screen. Having been in windows for awhile (3.1 to WinME) bad
> habits die slow, so I rebooted the machine. I know I don't have to
> reboot to implement an upgrade but still. Came back up, and got the
> same result. I decided to open a document, since the simple file menu
> in oocalc was active, and it open the file as normal. Was also able to
> open a new doc etc.
>
> But what I want to know is is thsi new behavior correct? It certainly
> isn't user friendly. I don't won't to go filing abug report prematurely.
>
> Thank you.
>
I just discovered that the ability to start a new instance by launching
a different OO app is gone. For example, before, if I had OO Writer
open, and then I launched OO Calc, it would. Now just places a button on
the taskbar for awhile, then dissappears, with no apperent effect; as if
I'd done nothig. Open a spreadsheet from the file menu in Writer, does
open a Calc interface with the approriate document however, as it should.
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