[Gllug] Fight! Fight! Fight!

[mickw at btinternet.com]

Hi,
Just 'cos I've had a bad day I thought I would express an opinion:-

I've always found any application that would let you edit a file (for hours, if you are a slow typer) and only tell you that you do not have write permission until you try and save it to be really annoying.
So the 'feature' in Star Office sounds good to me. 

But then that's just my opinion :)


Mick Wilkinson
> 
> >True, is Staroffice 6 less prone to crashing though?
> 
> Yes, much. Remember it's not officially out yet, but the beta seems
> pretty solid at the moment. There are still some font problems, but
> I think that's a pretty minor inconvenience.
> 
> The only flaws I've foudn so far are:
> 
> - The install opens up a full screen window. This is not Windows.
>   Full screen windows don't belong on a multitasking OS. They're
>   a by product of application design that believes it has the
>   whole machine to itself. Not good.
> - It doesn't like you running it unless you do so as the user that
>   installed it in the first place. Easy workaround (just copy the
>   ~/.sversionrc of the install user to the home directories of
>   every user you want to run the program), but it would be completely
>   unnecessary if they'd just written it right in the first place.
> - When opening a document for which you don't have write permission,
>   it opens in read-only mode. You can't modify it. You can save it
>   as a different file name, and then it'll switch modes so you can
>   modify it. But that's non-intuitive, and unnecessary, given years
>   of conditioning by apps that don't work like that. It should let
>   you modify it whatever, and only warn you when you try to save
>   that you'll need to use a different filename.
> 
> Tet
> 
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