[Gllug] Fight! Fight! Fight!

[tet at accucard.com]

>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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