Re: [libreoffice-users] Loading LibreOffice

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From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sun, 8 May, 2011 5:11:24
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Loading LibreOffice

On 05/07/2011 11:58 PM, Georges Rodier wrote:
> Le dimanche 08 mai 2011 à 02:29 +0200, Bert Mariën a écrit :
> > Looked at some other distro's:
> >
> > Mageia beta: green
> > Natty: red
> > Lucid: red (via ppa)
> > openSUSE: has it's own splash screen and loading bar
> >
> >
> >
> > Just thought I'd mention it.
> >
> > Green is the theme colour, ain't it.
> > So I'd like it to be green always.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 08/05/2011 01:42, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
> > > On 05/07/2011 06:49 PM, Bert Mariën wrote:
> > > > I was wandering why when loading LibreOffice on Windows one gets a
> > > > green loading bar and why the loading bar is red when loading a Linux
> > > > version?
> > > >
> > > > Bert.
> > > What do you mean by this statement?
> > > I use Ubuntu Linux and do not remember seeing a red loading bar,
> > > whatever you consider a loading bar is.
> > >
> > > Is it a bar shown in the splash screen while loading the package?
> > > Is it something to do with loading documents or installing extensions?
> > > I do not know where this bar comes into play.
> Ah, but Linux is much about choice. Since Ubuntu has a strong liking for
> purple and orange the red-orange colour (as it appears on my screen)
> contrasts very nicely with the LO green. I'm just glad the position of
> the LO splash screen progress bar got repositioned from where it was as
> given in Ubuntu's PPA for pre-11.04 releases.
>
> Hopefully the folks at LO are pleased that users are looking at every
> tiny feature in their great product but I don't think it worth the
> programming effort to provide user choices for the colour of the LO
> splash screen progress bar.
>
> Whatever the colour I'm just happy that's its LO that's loading as
> provided by default in Ubuntu 11.04 - and hopefully by many other Linux
> distros.
The word is that most of the distros have dumped OOo in favor of 
LibreOffice as their default office suite.  I still see listing for 
GNOME and KDE office suites, but I wonder how long they will last in the 
repositories.  That dumping of OOo may be one of the reasons that Oracle 
is dumping their OOo product line development and support.

Ubuntu 10.04LTS 64-bit
      running the
64-bit "LibreOffice LibreOffice 3.3.2 -- OOO330m19 (Build:202) -- tag 
libreoffice-3.3.2.2"
      installed from the LibreOffice download page [not repository]
shows a GREEN bar.


> Georges


Hi :)
Gnome Office and KOffice are aimed at different niche markets from LibreOffice.  
Gnome Office aims at being extremely light-weight for very low-spec or ancient 
machines.  LibreOffice is more about functionality than lightness.  


I think it would be good if The Document Foundation could run all 3 projects.  
Perhaps other projects, such as the Android one, could join too.  They would 
need some of their people at high levels within TDF for fairness.  Certain bugs 
seem to be common across all projects, such as proper compatibility with MS 
formats.
Regards from
Tom :)

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