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Working with OpenOffice is like going back 10 years in time to microsoft office 97. OpenOffice's theme is terrible.
2 solutions:
*office 2007 support in wine
*a theme for openoffice, now it seams like there is no theme for openoffice
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amoalsale wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 13:09
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Open source solutions belongs to everybody. We should try to improve the things rather than just underestimating them.
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Eldmannen wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 17:11
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I think OpenOffice is pretty...
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ebrahim wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 19:07
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OpenOffice is pretty but should be pretties.
Non-free solution such as MS Office 2007 are not solutions at all!
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ubunteando wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 22:18
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I think in Hardy it has improved... But open office in gutsy doesnt even have icons?? wtf... yeah, make it look nice, thanks!!
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spyyder wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 00:48
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Isn't this OOo's job. But yeah its ugly as sin. +1
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neon wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 01:32
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Yeah, we need to get Sun to emulate GTK themes better in OOo. Firefox 3 does it wonderfully. :]
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sci-fi guy wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 04:53
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Supporting Office 2007 in WINE is up to the WINE developers. There isn't much that Ubuntu can do about it. Generally developers that feel WINE is worth their efforts are already working on it.
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stronger wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 10:51
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> now it seams like there is no theme for openoffice
Of course there are themes:
$ apt-cache search openoffice.org-style | awk 'print $1'
openoffice.org-style-andromeda
openoffice.org-style-crystal
openoffice.org-style-default
openoffice.org-style-human
openoffice.org-style-industrial
openoffice.org-style-tango
openoffice.org-style-hicontrast
I hope there won't be ribbon for OO.org. I personally think vertical layout is much better than MS ribbon. See this mockup: http://images25.fotosik.pl/118/f3a3f8be4b9ee475.png
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kumailht wrote on the 20 Mar 08 at 01:16
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i totally agree with you a 100%.
i have always hated the theme.
i hope a new theme is set default for the hardy release
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thagoat wrote on the 21 Mar 08 at 15:06
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OpenOffice.org is a Sun project, so any enhancement requests for OOo should go to Sun, not Ubuntu, Canonical, or Debian. Although I do agree (I am forcd to use M$ Office at work and it is more aesthetically pleasing) that the beautification of OOo would be greatly appreciated!
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Redrazor39 wrote on the 26 Mar 08 at 21:59
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I KNOW! seriously, we need a new UI. Model it off of Google Docs (the new or old version), but do this: Have a menu bar that's better organized and items are named by function to make them easily identifiable, and then have only ONE toolbar, called the multi-bar or just the toolbar or something creative, that changes as you click things. When you're working with text, make it a standard textbar. With pictures, a picture format bar. With media, etc. etc. etc. Also, the standard text bar wouldn't take up a whole toolbar, so how about filling the extra space to the right of the standard text bar with things like bulleting and numbering toolbars that seem to pop up in your face like a crazy chihuahua! Also, on the bottom, have a toolbar that is dock-like. By this I mean make it totally customizable, but sort of tabbed. At this bottom toolbar in the custom toolbar section, make it so you can drag any button or option or window that pops up within OOo to it for instant one-click access. Make it so you can drag items off and reorder them with a nice slider effect. Then, all the way to the left of the toolbar, have some vertical text that says "Draw", which shows the standard draw toolbar, but is fully customizable via drag and drop.
This would be pretty, efficient, and unique.
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rs3york wrote on the 27 Mar 08 at 20:20
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This is something that should be put towards Sun/Novell/IBM/OO.o Community not Canonical/Ubuntu.
As for "the multi-bar or just the toolbar or something creative, that changes as you click things"
What about people who have difficulty or outright cannot use a mouse? Accessibility matters, and building a UI that depends on the mouse is not a good way to achieve accessible computing.
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s3a wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 07:40
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"What about people who have difficulty or outright cannot use a mouse? Accessibility matters, and building a UI that depends on the mouse is not a good way to achieve accessible computing."
Whenever something doesn't work for everyone, it should be an option instead of being imposed. I think this applies for everything.
+1 (idea in general is nice but office 2007 is not solution and someone here said there are themes)
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Kathaer wrote on the 17 Jul 08 at 08:52
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-1
it's easy.
it's pretty.
it's polish.
it's clean.
it's OpenOffice.
it's FREE! ;)
it's better than MSOffice.
it's not changing interface at every release... damn! ;)
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