Re: [libreoffice-users] IBM Donates Lotus Symphony Source Code to the Apache OpenOffice Project

The first release was quite stable, though reduced in feature.  Stable
enough I could write a best selling book using it.  You are all free to
have your own definition of "best selling" as everybody else in the book
industry does.  http://www.infiniteexposure.net

The current version of Symphony is pretty pathetic.  It was developed
_only_ on Windows.  If it happened to compile and install on Linux and
Mac, so be it, but no effort was made to improve these platforms.  The
rendering engine has a vanishing cursor and merging text problem which
has gotten consistently worse with patches and IBM has said they won't
fix...Gee, Eclipse had similar problems on OpenSuSE which is why you
have to go to the Eclipse site to find Eclipse for OpenSuSE...the
maintainers couldn't get it to build on OpenSuSE.

What I find most frustrating with KWord, which will hopefully change
with Words, is the fact they don't bundle the font with the style when
you define a style.  I understand the logic behind it, but don't know
how OOP I'm willing to be while creating documents.

I still don't think there will ever be a word processor to equal
WordPro.  That product was light years ahead of its time.  I have
finally either ditched or converted every file I had in that format so,
while I do miss the tabbed document functionality and the numbered
window MDI interface, I must use what I have for today's workflow.




On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 23:06 +0100, John B wrote:

> Hi
>
> As a disgruntled Lotus Smart Suite user, abandoned by IBM as are the 
> Lotus Amipro users, I am well aware of the link between Symphony & OOo, 
> as one reduced its support for LSS, so did the other one. In fact IBM 
> have now turned its back permanently on LSS and not so surprisingly in 
> Windows so has OOo;  with still thousands and thousands of requests 
> (pleads) for IBM not to do so (there is one request for compatibility - 
> requested some 15,000 times). Whilst at the same time, LO increases its 
> support - all praise to LO
>
> I understand from reading the on-line guessing politics that IBM will at 
> some point bring out a Paid for version,  to link into Lotus Notes, so 
> is this the "Price" OOo have had to pay to get IBM's blue interface:-  
> the "cost" of not being LSS compatible - Hold this space!
>
> Beside, IBM's Symphony hardly stood as an "office suit" with only 3 
> programs - and it was far to buggy for me.
>
> I am very happy for LO to stay on course.
>
> regards
>
> John B
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
> On 17/07/2011 22:01, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > My emails are just my own opinion.  I'm not even a proper member yet!
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Andy Brown<andy@the-martin-byrd.net>
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Sent: Sun, 17 July, 2011 20:23:30
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] IBM Donates Lotus Symphony Source Code to the
> > Apache OpenOffice Project
> >
> > Luuk wrote:
> > > http://www-03.ibm.com/software/lotus/symphony/buzz.nsf/web_DisPlayPlugin?open&unid=955E9C0EC712EC47852578CD0063A209&category=announcements
> > > s
> > >
> > > Is it time for the LO-developers to get back with OpenOffice too ?
> > In a word, no.


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