On Mon May 06, 2002 at 12:20:54PM -0700, craigw wrote: > On Mon May 06, 2002 at 03:07:12PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > > %% craigw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > c> What, are you on drugs or something? Come on man, are you pullin' my > > leg > > c> or what? It's a pig. A bloated, stuck pig. I see no problem with the > > c> operating speed, but the loading speed sucks. > > > > c> -They removed the "integrated desktop" (which I, obviously an oddball, > > c> happen to like. I might be the only person in the world who does. But I > > c> leave StarOffice running, it's on its own desktop, there are certain > > c> things I do with it, I don't have to wait for it to launch since I just > > c> leave it running...) > > > > c> after all this, the damn thing takes forever to launch. > > > > Wait, I don't get it... if you were happy leaving StarOffice running in > > the background, why don't you do the same thing with OpenOffice? > > > > If OO is already started then bringing up new documents in it doesn't > > take very long at all. > > > yes, quite true. > the reasons I still use 5.2: > 1. the calendar. as stated, I am still using StarOffice Schedule > 2. the integrated desktop. as stated, I happen to like it. I wish that > it were available as an option in the new product. > 3. stability. OpenOffice seems prone to crashing when opening Microshaft > crap that it can't handle. 5.2 is solid as a rock. If anything, it may > refuse to open the > document, or open it and render it poorly. But it will not crash. > OpenOffice will crash. Then you wind up sitting and waiting as you > restart it. I do not download & install nightly builds of OpenOffice. > Perhaps this has improved in the past month. I expect that if it hasn't, > it will. > P.S. It has been known to happen that I have worked on a document for several days without saving, or even all week, then saved on Friday. Not common practice, of course, but it has been known to happen. When I realize that I have done such a thing, I thank my lucky stars that I am using a stable program on a stable operating system.
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