openoffice 2.0 preview in [unstable]

tpowa · 2004-12-23 11:44:58

hi
now a little present for x-mas from my side to the arch community:
Openoffice 2.0 packages in different languages:
as usual they are NO source builds!

there are a lot of improvements over 1.1.4 but it is only a PREVIEW version beta is tagged for january and final around march/april

more details you can find here:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/2.0/featureguide.html

and the best thing you can use it parallel to OO 1.1.4

spellchecking packages need some tweaking for it, but we will find a solution for that, if you have one go ahead send it to me

No openoffice2-base package is needed anymore since OO now supports multilanguage installs !

pacman -S openoffice2 (should make all english people make happy)
pacman -S openoffice2-XX (for the rest)

happy x-mas to all of you out there
enjoy OO 2.0

greetings
tpowa

celeron2002 · 2004-12-23 13:30:34

thx, this works .

But i dont feel the change of speed between 1.1 and 2.0 , maybe is for the use of binary instead of sources

tpowa · 2004-12-23 13:32:28

i think speed will improve a little bit more
because i guess that debugging is enabled in these preview version but i'm not sure

iBertus · 2004-12-23 20:47:15

speed imporvement or no i feel that the improvement in looks is worth the upgrade

Alkimyst · 2004-12-23 22:05:48

you guys rule!

alexthelion · 2004-12-23 22:07:04

Is the fact that they just appeared in extra an accident or you want people to force testing them?

aCoder · 2004-12-23 22:44:59

Is the fact that they just appeared in extra an accident or you want people to force testing them?

That is sort of odd...

Regardless, it's not starting for me. The ever-so-stylish, 'work-in-progress' splash appears, and then an error pops up informing me of an internal error that's preventing the application from starting.

dp · 2004-12-24 01:06:35

alexthelion wrote:

Is the fact that they just appeared in extra an accident or you want people to force testing them?

i triggered it to appear in extra, when i updated kaffeine ... but me wonders why it is in extra and not testing ... hmm ...

scottro · 2004-12-24 02:57:59

Well, one other thing it can do that I wasn't able to do in 1.x (Although I never tried this with 1.x in Linux, only FreeBSD)

It is able to open and print a Japanese document created in Mac OSX Word. 1.x couldn't do that.

As my wife needed something printed tonight, that was a Good Thing (TM)

Edited a few minutes later

For the heck of it, tried to open it in 1.1.4 (FreeBSD) I guess I hadn't tried with 1.1.4 but had already given up--1.1.4 can also open it. <shrug>

Still, it looks really good and I'm looking forward to its release

Thanks again.

alexthelion · 2004-12-24 14:04:07

Works for me, mostly. Had a crash, but hey, it's not even a beta yet.

One thing: I can't add a printer, that option is blanked out. Why does Oo.o manage printers itself anyway? Cups could do that...

Another thing: integration into desktop environment. Here, some bits are still missing:

* GTK file chooser is not used.
* Nautilus doesn't recognize the new filetypes yet. Thinks they are *.zip files. Which is true, they are zipped XML's.
* Nice Gnome icons (ore KDE, depending on what you have running). The gnome ones can be seen here: http://www.gnome.org/~michael/impress-1.9.png

I'm not sure whether those issues are building/packaging issues or whether they are promised but just not ready yet from the Oo.o 2.0 side.

Anyway, thanks for the X-Mas gift, tpowa

tpowa · 2004-12-24 14:21:55

PLEASE:
i can only repeat i provide the packages as they are
NO SOURCE BUILD IS USED

the new m67 testbuild had ui interface of your environment
but i cannot promise that it's in next package because it's from a mirror that is not in official list

it fully depends on OO.org's provided packages

happy xmas to you all

scottro · 2004-12-24 14:30:17

I haven't played with spadmin and adding a printer with it, but it uses the default printer without problem. So far, I've only used it at home where I only have one printer, haven't tried it on a machine that has several choices.

tpowa · 2004-12-24 14:34:49

i think you don't need spadmin anymore
it uses now cups for printing as backend so all printers that cups find
will be found by OO

iphitus · 2004-12-25 01:19:11

that's funny, ive never had to add my printer in OOo, it's always just used cups for me.

dp · 2004-12-25 03:50:51

[root@Asteraceae /]# pacman -S openoffice2               

Targets: openoffice2-1.9.65-1

Total Package Size:   96.1 MB

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] 

:: Retrieving packages from unstable...
 openoffice2-1.9.65-1     [----------------] 100%   98365K   139.2K/s  00:03:14

checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts... 
error: the following file conflicts were found:
  openoffice2: /etc/mime.types: exists in filesystem


errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

[root@Asteraceae /]# pacman -Qo /etc/mime.types 
/etc/mime.types is owned by mutt 1.4.2.1-1
[root@Asteraceae /]#

scarecrow · 2004-12-26 16:51:00

It also complained here about /etc/mime.types- however after renaming the old one and then merging the entries it works OK now- or rather quite decently, considering it's early beta status.

FoPref · 2004-12-28 10:52:21

do a diff (or xxdiff or meld) and add the types one of the mime.types have missing... easy one, eh?

scarecrow · 2004-12-31 18:36:56

"document as email" does not seem to work properly (it does not send any attachments to the email client it fires up- in my case Thunderbird). 1.1.4 works fine instead, but there you can choose between several email client profiles... on v.2 there is no choice (yet?!).

dp · 2004-12-31 20:53:55

FoPref wrote:

do a diff (or xxdiff or meld) and add the types one of the mime.types have missing... easy one, eh?

it is a workaround .. yes ... but it scares me having one file belonging to 2 pkgs

tpowa · 2005-01-01 10:22:31

@ scarecrow
you have to insert your mail client in the options dialog
how should OO know what email client you use
it works fine with kmail

scarecrow · 2005-01-01 23:29:02

@ tpowa: I have done that of course, and the client is called- but no attachment is sent to that particular client (thunderbird).
It does work with kmail, as I found out after your post, so this should be fixed.

tpowa · 2005-01-02 08:40:14

perhaps you need to add a parameter that the attachment is attached
i don't use thunderbird

alexthelion · 2005-01-10 18:08:36

I don't want to be too demanding - but is it possible to provide up-to-date packages from time to time? Oo.o is at milestone 69 now. That would be cool...

tpowa · 2005-01-10 20:34:19

i'm on 56k modem again so it will not happen before the weekend

alexthelion · 2005-01-10 21:12:25

easy... no hurry.

Thanks!

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openoffice 2.0 preview in [unstable]

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