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

Kevin Fries kevin at hcico.com
Mon Feb 14 06:44:44 UTC 2005


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Jeff Vian wrote:

|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.
|>
|>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.
|>
|>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
|>
|>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.

Ahhh.... even though I got it today, the apt repository is behind.  I
updated minutes before my previous post, but got the older
openoffice.org-1.1.3-2.5.fc3 version.

Thx for the clarification

Kevin Fries

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