(fwd) OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 Is Here

[Olaf Greck]

FYI,

best regards

Olaf


On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:11:42 -0500, in
gmane.comp.openoffice.announce.general Louis Suarez-Potts

All,

OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 is available today. It is ready now in English;
check with the Native Language projects for other languages. The
release is recommended for everyone. It contains some nifty new
features, fixes many small bugs and resolves numerous issues. For
instance, spellcheck dictionaries are now directly integrated into
OpenOffice.org and are immediately available after installation;
there is no need for extra downloads. The community have also added
import filters for Quattro Pro 6 and Microsoft Word 2. As well, other
import filters have been improved, so that documents created by other
applications can be edited in OpenOffice.org more seamlessly.
Continuing with the the push to enhance OpenOffice.org's business
functionality, it is now easier to use mail merge. As well,
integration with the KDE address book is now possible.

The appearance of the application has also been enhanced, and for
Linux users, there are new icon sets for KDE and GNOME. The result of
this and the other improvements is not just a prettier OpenOffice.org
but a friendlier and more capable suite.

And it's free.

* Get OpenOffice.org:
http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.2/index.html

* Release Notes: http://development.openoffice.org/releases/
2.0.2rc4.html

* Native Language Projects: http://projects.openoffice.org/native-
lang.html



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[Dan Goodman]

Olaf Greck wrote:

thanks!


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[prospero33]

It seems to have gone from 90MB to 104, takes even longer to load. I'm
sticking with it, but I'm getting a bit disappointed.

 

[FTR]

Olaf Greck wrote:

thanks!

The version to download is American English, no British or other varieties

Frank

 

[El Gee]

It seems to have gone from 90MB to 104, takes even longer to load. I'm
sticking with it, but I'm getting a bit disappointed.

Not to sound like a smart alec, but the alternatives are payware and
much larger

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It seems to have gone from 90MB to 104, takes even longer to load.
I'm sticking with it, but I'm getting a bit disappointed.

OOo 2.0.2's Windows installer is 91203 KB. The 106826 KB installer
also has Sun's JRE.

 

[Mutlley]

The version to download is American English, no British or other varieties

Frank

So.... you want French English??

 

[Craig]

So.... you want French English??

Mutley;

The OOo vs MSO competition is heating up. Frank points out a glaring
omission in the OOo localization rollout. All you have to do is check
to see that MS is about to eat OOo's lunch. For example:

http://home.tiscali.be/joke1/Neme4/MS Word.jpg
http://www.huumor.com/joke_2101

<vbg>
-Craig

 

[Martyn W]

So.... you want French English??

Perhaps one of: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh,
Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman
Islands, Dominica, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, India, Ireland,
Jamaica, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Malta, New Zealand, Nigeria,
Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone,
South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago,
Uganda, Zambia, or even Zimbabwe

 

[Nicolaas Hawkins]

The version to download is American English, no British or other varieties

Oh?
Would you care to explain to us why that might be, Frank?
Not everybody in the world speaks the American dialect of English - or,
for that matter, English at all.


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[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 09 Mar 2006, Nicolaas Hawkins wrote

Oh?
Would you care to explain to us why that might be, Frank?
Not everybody in the world speaks the American dialect of
English - or, for that matter, English at all.

I assumed he meant that 2.0.2 has only shipped so far in AmEng --
have the other versions been similarly updated yet?

 

[Craig]

On 09 Mar 2006, Nicolaas Hawkins wrote




I assumed he meant that 2.0.2 has only shipped so far in AmEng --
have the other versions been similarly updated yet?

Good catch Harvey;

AmEng is the singular disto available...as of yesterday at least.
Others will be rolling out soon. If one were in a hurry, I suppose one
could download the AmEng version and then install other dialects (or
even langs) as a language pack.

-Craig

p.s. and totally [OT] found (via digg.com) this link
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/03/09/547281.aspx showing MS
Word 2007 screenshots.

The ribbon looks *very nice* indeed

 

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Oh?
Would you care to explain to us why that might be, Frank?

It might be because Sun is a US company. I'm pretty sure it's not
Frank's fault.

Not everybody in the world speaks the American dialect of English
- or, for that matter, English at all.

They can keep an eye on
<http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html>, as mentioned in
the OP announcement.

 

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OOo 2.0.2's Windows installer is 91203 KB. The 106826 KB installer
also has Sun's JRE.

»Q«,
You mean that installing OOo 2.0.2 will also install Sun's JRE
automatically at the same time?

Note: I don't have a problem as much anymore with Java, since it's a
simple matter to turn it off in both IE and FF. Doing so should stop
Redsherrif AKA Nielsen Netratings from spying on a person. Also, I read
at one site that AdAware now detects and removes it.

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[David]

The version to download is American English, no British or other varieties

Frank

In 2.0.2 UK English etc is built-in. Go to Tools>Options>Language
Settings. Both Languages and Writing Aids have built-in selections.

As an aside I had installed 1.9.??? and then installed 2.0 and 2.0.1
in a different directory, deleting the 1.9 dir. 2.0.2 refused to
install without uninstalling the 1.9 version. The uninstall
information was unavailable, so I had to manually edit the registry to
remove all references. There were thousands of them.

Is there a registry editor that can search and delete all references
to a no-longer-existing directory? Nortons WinDoctor and Crap Cleaner
will not do the job although each picked up a portion of the entries.
That still left over a thousand entries I had to delete one at a time.
Boring. It took me around four hours.

 

[Craig]

»Q«,
You mean that installing OOo 2.0.2 will also install Sun's JRE
automatically at the same time?

You choose at time of d/l. (Of course, 2.x.x still requires Java...)
Check out http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.2/index.html.

regards,
-Craig

 

[David]

So.... you want French English??

Anything other than the US Corruption of English.

 

[Ron Lopshire]

The OOo vs MSO competition is heating up. Frank points out a glaring
omission in the OOo localization rollout. All you have to do is check
to see that MS is about to eat OOo's lunch. For example:

http://home.tiscali.be/joke1/Neme4/MS Word.jpg
http://www.huumor.com/joke_2101

This guy doesn't think much of OOo. Gee, I wonder why.

Yates claims OpenOffice.org lagging behind
(http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060307-6324.html)
(http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/3517/106)

Ron

 

[powerstation]

As an aside I had installed 1.9.??? and then installed 2.0 and 2.0.1
in a different directory, deleting the 1.9 dir. 2.0.2 refused to
install without uninstalling the 1.9 version. The uninstall
information was unavailable, so I had to manually edit the registry to
remove all references. There were thousands of them.

Is there a registry editor that can search and delete all references
to a no-longer-existing directory? Nortons WinDoctor and Crap Cleaner
will not do the job although each picked up a portion of the entries.
That still left over a thousand entries I had to delete one at a time.
Boring. It took me around four hours.

could you not install 1.9 again then uninstall ?

 

[Ron Lopshire]

Anything other than the US Corruption of English.

What's wrong with using

1) indexes as the plural of index?
2) disrespect as a verb?
3) hung as the past tense of to hang (execution)?
4) the phrase "Like I said, ..."?
5) hisself as a word?
6) irregardless as a word?

Some schools use to actually teach English grammar in the US, but alas
a Euro-centric curriculum fell out of favor in public schools in the
70's. Sigh.

Ron