[libreoffice-users] Re: LO for a Mac Powerbook G4

On 07/20/2012 08:05 PM, Ken Springer wrote:

> Apple doesn't include things similar to Wordpad and the like with their OS.

It does come with TextEdit, a RTF "capable" editor/word processor, 
although I would use that last term lightly.


> So I'm collecting some software that can be installed by the new owner.
>   I would install it if this was a Windows machine, but OS X requires
> the new owner to create the equivalent of an Administrator account with
> name and password right out of the box.  The Leopard install is brand
> new, so there's no way I can install the software as I don't know what
> the eventual username and password will be.

You can actually create several users with admin rights (or at least you 
could, perhaps that has changed ??), then just delete the one that you 
don't want to keep, that way you could install the software you want.


> I think my time with LO is about to expire.  I've filed two bugs which
> no one seems interested in even dealing with.  They still exist.  And
> there are others that I've not double checked on for 3.5.x.  I've posted
> about this "non-attentiveness" before, but if fixing the bugs that are
> important to me isn't important to the developers, I'm not interested in
> lending any assistance.  It's a two way street, and I'm not the only one
> to post about bugs not being fixed prior to adding new features.  I'll

Such is the way with open source, community run projects, especially if 
your reports are OS specific. The plain fact of the matter is that the 
vast majority of the developers of this project are actually coding on 
Linux. As far as I know, there are 3 or 4 developers who regularly use 
Mac OSX, but that's about it. There are no specialist Mac user interface 
coders, nor anyone particularly specialised in the underlying Mac APIs.


Feature development is what makes life interesting for developers on a 
project like this - bug fixing for them is generally not so much fun, 
hence the prioritisation. I can understand your point of view though, 
having looked at alternatives and remained as yet undecided. I'm 
ultimately not prepared to fork out for something that doesn't cater to 
my needs, so I can stick with LO, and try and help it improve in my own 
small way.


> I have Apple's iWork 09 package, which I consider to be Apple's
> equivalent to MS Works.  But, there's no database component.  I may go
> back and work some more with Pages (the word processor) and see if I can
> get used to it.

Not tried that, or Pages/Sheets/etc, and when I looked at database 
implementations, only found FMPro, which is well out of what my purse 
strings are prepared to pay, even for a small business like mine.

Alex





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