Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:35:00 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To UNIX or not to UNIX ;-). Was: PPP problems. Message-ID: <19970616073500.FD44237@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199706160105.KAA08436@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Jun 16, 1997 10:35:12 %2B0930 References: <199706160016.UAA15226@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <199706160105.KAA08436@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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As Michael Smith wrote: > *ahem*. Have any of you looked at StarOffice yet? Yes. I hate it, and will delete it again quickly. It looks like Windows. Antisocial programming all over the place, right from the beginning with this d*mned picture window in the middle you can't get rid of. That's anything else but an X11 program, and it looks totally terrible unless your window manager has about the same look and feel as StarOffice. (But people are not one like the other, and X11 users got used to be able to choose their look&feel by selecting the window manager. The tale that each person is replaceable by the next one is an invention of the militaries.) Also, it's way too slow. It uses the same braindead idea like winlose programs -- binary files for a _text_ program? What sense does it make at all to use a binary file for a text processor? I don't really like Applixware very much either (the word processor is still one abstraction level below things like LaTeX or troff -ms, and the output looks a lot worse than the high quality i'm used to see from troff or TeX), but i like it ten times more than StarOffice. And to the least, they're using an intelligible format for their files. I gotta use it recently (since the output was required to be M$-compatible), and i ended up writing an applix-mode.el, and editing the texts inside, yeah, you know which editor. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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