On Wednesday 06 December 2006 04:14, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 17:40, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] > > Installation of openoffice in 4 hours or more?! :s': > > Hi, > > > > if you don't use openoffice a lot, it is not worth to compile it. Just > > use the binary package. It will take some seconds more to start, but > > once it runs, there is hardly any difference. > > I disagree. > > On my x86 laptop, OO.o started u virutally instantly and intergrated well > with KDE, including using KDE Open/Save dialogs and my qt/kde theme. > > On my x86_64 desktop, before the source package would complie, OO.o would > take 5-10 seconds to start, then use different colors and widgets from the > rest of the desktop, and use some horribly primitive (to my mind) > Open/Save dialogs. > > This was one of the reasons I started using KOffice when I could.
Integration with the user env and speed is one reason why compiling from source is advantageous over the binary installation. I don't mean to talk you out of using KOffice because it's improving significantly every time I check it out. However, if looks/env variables are of importance to you on OOo then you can set these up in your .bashrc. Add: # Make OOo use KDE env. export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde or gnome, or default (the ugly one!) and OOo will launch with your preferred looks. -- Regards, Mick
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