

Some features are better than features found in Microsoft Word. I've been using Open Office Writer and Calc for years. It's been a wonderful program until just recently. I really like the user interface and features overall. I've been using OpenOffice for many years and never really had a problem until the last few months, as the crashing has been increasing to be more and more frequent. StarOffice/OpenOffice.My overall experience, until it seemingly somehow led to my computer now being unable to start, has actually been great.More environment variables can be found here: If someone has a fix for this issue, please correct this paragraph! The price to pay is that the open/save dialog gets missed. However, it will remove native KDE open/save dialogs, too! "kde" will bring back an old KDE3 style and "kde4" is the default setting on openSUSE and is the one which loads the oxygen mockup and native open/save dialog.Ī nice way to work around the oxygen issue is to use "gnome" combined with local ~/.gtkrc-2.0 in which QtCurve is set as default gtk theme. Setting the latter to "none" will remove any desktop integration. This can be changed by exporting environment variables: However, this theme is still very buggy and many elements are not displayed correctly. Recent OpenOffice packages are shipped with an oxygen theme to better fit into the KDE4 workspace. They are visible in the the Versions tab: If YaST is reporting some conflicts or missing dependencies, please make sure that the right version and architecture is selected. You may need to select the right architecture and version by hand when updating via the Build Service. Also the packages with extra localizations started to be architecture independent (noarch). The OpenOffice_org package has been split into more optional packages (-writer, -calc, -impress) since OOo-2.3. It is also possible to search the mailing list archive. General questions about the application usage can be best answered on the mailing list One must be subscribed to post messages there. The primary information source is the official site. packages have been obsoleted by LibreOffice.
