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

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:02 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:04:13 -0400, Arthur Pemberton
> <dalive at flashmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> But now I think it is faster to open the Open office than before.
> 

There is another part of this change that is really irritating.  Any
specific icon for OO that used to open the writer/calc/impress now opens
exactly the same window.

Now to even get the toolbars to show and a window to work in you have to
go to file - new - text document/spreadsheet/presentation.

I understand that OO is a framework and the content(calc, writer,
impress, etc) are all flexible.  However, the icon should still open a
blank page of the type you expect (spreadsheet, text document,
presentation, etc)

This IS a change from the prior version.
Jan 30 08:56:15 Updated: openoffice.org.i386 1.1.3-2.5.fc3
Feb 13 18:06:34 Updated: openoffice.org.i386 1.1.3-5.5.0.fc3