How do I mend Openoffice?

[Martin Laberge]

On December 27, 2007 08:43:59 Seakat wrote:
> Subject:
> > How do I mend OpenOffice?
> > From:
> > Seakat <seakat at orange.fr>
> > Date:
> > Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:03:23 +0100
> >
> > To:
> > Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> >
> >
> > I upgraded recently from Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) to 7.10 (Gutsy), and this
> > also upgraded OpenOffice2.0.2 (I think) to 2.3.1. Now Ooo is badly
> > broken. Using KDE, Write displays only part of the text (but it is still
> > there), and the icons on the toolbars have disappeared. In Calc, the
> > line heights have become tiny, and when teased apart, the text remains
> > invisible (but it is still there in the entry window on the toolbar).
> > (Running in Gnome the problem is similar except that the tool bar icons
> > are still there). Strange horizontal red lines appear in both Write and
> > Calc. Impress shows the images, but only occasional bits of text. Even
> > worse, when Ooo is loaded my computer slows right down and heats up. Is
> > there a way out, please? However I have installed Ooo 2.3.1 on XP _SP2
> > running in VirtualBox on Kubuntu, and there is no apparent problem there.
> > Otherwise, I've been a Kubuntu user for about 6 months, and it's just great!
> 
> Further to my above posting, I got the icons back in Ooo by tinkering
> with permissions. All the other problems seemed still there, however,
> and running "sudo soffice" or "sudo ooffice" didn't help.
> Then after reading the recent thread on kdesudo, I tried "kdesudo
> soffice" and "kdesudo ooffice". Now just about everything seems to work
> (no sound in Impress, yet, but that's minor). WOW!
> 
> Four questions/comments:
> 1. THANK YOU kdesudo!
> 2. Shouldn't Ooo work anyway without having to do all this, and can't it
> be made easier, especially for newbies?
> 3. Anyone got ideas about the nitty gritty of why my OOo's screwed up
> without kdesu?
> 
> 
> 
> 

This is my opinion, I am not responsible for any harm caused to anyone by it.

Please, just turn back to Feisty-7.04, and set it correctly, and skip
this Gusty thing. It's just too unpolished. It is a prematured baby.

A Feisty maintained correctly, can beat a Gusty in any way I know.

It's full-fledged, stable, capable, versatile, ...
Maybe it do not have the last version of the things,
but those that are there works.

If you need gusty for a new device only, then take a few minutes
to fine-tune manually a feisty, and you'll be better served.

There is nothing in gusty who justify leaving a perfect feisty.
And the missing drivers, are easyly added.

Just wait for the next incarnation, who should be better.

This is what I did, and will maintain it until the next incarnation
(the post-Gusty one)

It is just my 2 cents.
(But it seems by the mailing-list, that I am not alone who think so)


-- 
Martin Laberge, 30 years of unix admin... and still learning!
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