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

Hi :)
Yes, just rename your user-profile 
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile
and/or install one of the stable versions from the proper official website
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
and keep away from alph or beta testing unless you really want to test and try out new features 
before the official release dates (like previewing a film before the box-office opening)
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Thu, 26/1/12, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote:

From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] I am really disappointed about libreOffice
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 26 January, 2012, 12:38

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old/outdated code, and that will make working with the code much easier down the road.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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