Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 05, 2005 05:21 AM
Nonetheless, I must say that it is quite frustrating. I agree that word simply does this a *whole* lot better. I was very annoyed to see, that after my wife got seriously infected with viruses, she tried OO under Gentoo but had to go back to windows. She has a us keyboard and needs to write in french, and even I (been using linux for a couple of years now) couldn't find an easy way of doing this (macros should have but didn't come to me). In word you can assign pretty much anything you want - including several keys. That is "Freedom". She had her masters research report to write and that was that. I probably shouldn't have installed Gentoo (while I am pretty good at doing most things, editing xorg.conf and actually making it work is not my forté) but nothing else easily upgradable has reliably installed. OO is pretty much the only hope for linux to make serious inroads onto the desktop so I think a little bit of vented spleen is needed to keep everyone on their toes! Just my 2c.
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Re:open office has completely failed for Spanish
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 05, 2005 05:21 AMI probably shouldn't have installed Gentoo (while I am pretty good at doing most things, editing xorg.conf and actually making it work is not my forté) but nothing else easily upgradable has reliably installed.
OO is pretty much the only hope for linux to make serious inroads onto the desktop so I think a little bit of vented spleen is needed to keep everyone on their toes!
Just my 2c.
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