open office 3 is not completly integrated to ubuntu nor gnome

[manzur]

this thing are needed

1) use system libraries (font libraries at first)
2) good API for the third party applications
3) Integrates with the Desktop Environment - it follows Windows-like guidelines, not Gnome, so it looks poor here.
4) Right click and create empty openoffice documents everywhere

[Gert Kulyk (gkulyk)]

Hi manzur,

could you please clarify a few things?

1) Openoffice.org packaged by ubuntu-maintainers is using system libraries for font-rendering etc. Sure, there is a known problem with cairo >=1.6.4 because the way subpixel-rendering is done changed, but this is not that trivial to fix (and has been already reported).

2) There is an API for third-party applications - what else do you want?

3) Openoffice.org gnome and kde-integration is not ideal, sure, but there is not really a lot ubuntu-packagers would be able to change, because OOo is cross-platform.

4) This would be a nautilus-task. You can have something like this if you place empty documents in your "Templates" directory.

[manzur (sl-solaris)]

oh, and something else, Is openoffice 3 working under gtk+ ?
and is intrepid ibex going to have it by default?

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

No, its not going to be in ibex by default.

[manzur (sl-solaris)]

Anyway, I'm sure that Ubuntu 9.04 will have OpenOffice 3, but why wait 6 months in something that can be done now?
As I said, if this be done, Ubuntu will gain a lot of bonus-users :P
This implies in a larger community, Ubuntu better-known, more money to Canonical, etc etc etc

look at this idea please:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/14433/

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

In the meantime it's possible to add this PPA repo in order to get OpenOffice 3.0

https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive

probably it would go in ibex via backports..

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

BUT you must be aware that this can break your system, specially when upgrading to intrepid release. So take this into account before testing, and please be sure of what you're doing.

[manzur (sl-solaris)]

excuse me but please tell me someting, why dont you do it for intrepid ibex by default

[pHreaksYcle (dknoll)]

Ubuntu Tweak has template creators if you want to add OO documents into your right click-> new menu of nautilus.