openoffice.org-1.1.3-5.5.0: bug or feature?

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 22:59 -0700, Kevin Fries wrote:
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> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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> | 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.
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> After reading your post and some replies, it got me wondering, so, I
> upgraded my system.  I now have 1.1.3 and while I am seeing the speed
> increase, I am not getting any of the other behavior.  I get the
> toolbars and a blank document just like before, and I also can open a
> spreadsheet from the word processor.
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> The only difference is that I round-canned yum long ago and use apt to
> update.  But I did confirm that it is version 1.1.3.  So, I would say
> it is more likely the way your repository configured OO.o
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> Kevin Fries

Kevin,
See my post from a few minutes ago.
I had 1.1.3 that was updated on Jan 30 and worked as expected.
The new update, installed today does not work as expected.