Openoffice/Star office ?
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genghiscohen
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There is a group of volunteers (I believe) working on porting OpenOffice to OS X, but from what I hear, they still have a lot of work to do before even a beta version will be available.
If I could code with any skill at all, I'd offer them my services.
If I could code with any skill at all, I'd offer them my services.
genghiscohen
Membrum virile
Actually, that's something called Office CD 0.9, which includes AbiWord, Gnumeric and optional GIMP. It's not the same critter as OpenOffice.
Still, I'm interested in trying it out and seeing if it is a worthwhile substitute for M$ Office.
Still, I'm interested in trying it out and seeing if it is a worthwhile substitute for M$ Office.
gigi
Registered
Abiword is being portedto mac os x.
here is a screenshot http://www.abisource.com/~hub/abi.jpg
you can find more ingo here http://www.advogato.org/person/hub/
Email the guy and tell him thanks for the effort he is putting in.
here is a screenshot http://www.abisource.com/~hub/abi.jpg
you can find more ingo here http://www.advogato.org/person/hub/
Email the guy and tell him thanks for the effort he is putting in.
Javintosh
Meember
I read that qt 3.0 was ported to the Mac (sorry could not find the link). TThe article stated that applications written for qt 3.0 could run on the Mac if the developer simply recompiled those applications.
I guess from the article that qt is some sort of API or something that handled dealing with specific operating systems. You wrote software for qt and then compiled against a target OS (sorry if this is inaccurate, but I am not a programmer). The news article said that Mac OS X support was added to qt 3.0.
The article also stated that KDE was written for qt which meant that KDE applications could now come to MacOS X if the developer chose to recompile for MacOS X.
and now to my point...
The article also stated that StarOffice for Solaris was written for KDE (since Sun is transitioning to KDE) and as such it should be much easier to bring StarOffice to MacOS X.
and to my question...
If this is true, wouldn't this significantly lower the bar for a port of the Solaris version of StarOffice? Was that basically correct?
At the moment I figured that the chances for OpenOffice/StarOffice coming to Mac OS X anytime soon were not particularly good. That article made it sound like almost a done deal with qt 3.0 support for Mac OS X. I was just wondering if anyone could bring a little reality to what it would *really* take for StarOffice to come to Mac OS X...
I guess from the article that qt is some sort of API or something that handled dealing with specific operating systems. You wrote software for qt and then compiled against a target OS (sorry if this is inaccurate, but I am not a programmer). The news article said that Mac OS X support was added to qt 3.0.
The article also stated that KDE was written for qt which meant that KDE applications could now come to MacOS X if the developer chose to recompile for MacOS X.
and now to my point...
The article also stated that StarOffice for Solaris was written for KDE (since Sun is transitioning to KDE) and as such it should be much easier to bring StarOffice to MacOS X.
and to my question...
If this is true, wouldn't this significantly lower the bar for a port of the Solaris version of StarOffice? Was that basically correct?
At the moment I figured that the chances for OpenOffice/StarOffice coming to Mac OS X anytime soon were not particularly good. That article made it sound like almost a done deal with qt 3.0 support for Mac OS X. I was just wondering if anyone could bring a little reality to what it would *really* take for StarOffice to come to Mac OS X...