On 03/11/2011 03:13 PM, calvin morrison wrote: > On 11 March 2011 16:09, Ilya Chernykh<neptunia@...> wrote: >> On Friday 11 March 2011 23:04:59 Timothy Pearson wrote: >> >> I have just installed OpenOffice 3.3 from Oracle and it works well with KDE3 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... >> For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@... >> Read list messsages on the Web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ >> Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting >> >> > > Frankly Oracle sucks, and so does Open Office. > > It is unacceptable to use it as far as i am concerned. it has become > unusable and bloaty over the years and Oracle has prevented it from > maturing. LibreOffice is the viable alternative. I think that if we > get them to patch back in the KDE3 stuff that would be worth it. using > Open Office is not worth it. > > Calvin Morrison > I share the sentiment in large part, but let's never forget "You catch more flies with honey than you do salt..." Much of the support drop over the past 2 years has been the result of kde.org dropping kde3. The 3rd-party software has just followed their lead. I don't know, but it just strikes me that if oracle was approached and made aware that the Trinity project has matured and is kde3 based and ooo support would benefit both -- then I don't see why support can't just be put back in. After all - it exists, it's not like something new has to be developed, they just have to include what they used to include. I think that's worth a shot and makes sense all the way around :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.