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

[Arthur Pemberton]

Wong Kwok-hon wrote:

>On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:04:13 -0400, Arthur Pemberton
><dalive at flashmail.com> 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.
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>>>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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>>>Thank you.
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>>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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>But now I think it is faster to open the Open office than before.
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That I must aggree....but don't you think it's a bit 'scary' at first? 
OO is already not know for it's beauty.
And on a side note: Any hope of Fedora providing OO via RPM with Qt 
hacked in?

Thanks.