Re: [libreoffice-users] I am really disappointed about libreOffice

On 2012-01-25 4:03 PM, Thomas Wunner <th.wunner@gmx.de> wrote:
> But now I am really disappointed about your software. LibreOffice crashed in my previous version 
> while trying to do table calculation (typing the = sign caused the error).
>
> In LibreOffice 3.4.2 000340m1 (Build:1206) I got this error message: terminate called after 
> throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::loader::CannotActivateFactoryException'
>
> In my opinion this blooper should not happen with your about 10 years openSource in office suite 
> development!
> And I seriously think about to use only openOffice in future.
> Community openSource software means also to check the software before releasing.

Thomas,

There was a *massive* amount of code refactoring in the 3.4.x release 
that stripped out *tons* of old/outdated code, and that will make 
working with the code much easier down the road.

It sounds like you may have encountered an issue with some corruption in 
your user profile, which can just as easily happen in Openoffice (so 
switching to it will *not* make you immune to something similar in the 
future).

You would be unwise to make a knee-jerk decision based on one little 
thing like this, especially when using a major new version that you were 
*warned* may have some issues (you *did* read the release notes, 
right?). Also, fyi, 3.4.3 was the version of the 3.4.x series that was 
recommended for people to switch to as the new stable version, so 
complaining about a version that is older than that with known issues, 
without at *least* switching to the most current version first, is just 
dumb.

I understand that 3.5 will do something similar, but probably with less 
serious chances of breakage. I *always* wait until at least two or 3 
point releases of a major version update before switching en masse to it

On other possibility - do you *upgrade* (install over the top of the old 
version) when updating, or do you do a full uninstall/reinstall?

I *always* uninstall the old version first (leaving my user profile), 
the install the new version (started doing this a long time ago when I 
encountered occasional problems when installing the new version on top 
of the old version)...

Charles

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