Where to download OOo 2.0 beta Mac ?

M-Rick

On OOo website it is possible to download OOo 2.0 beta, but impossible to find the mac x11 version, same on the FTPs, where is it possible to try it ?

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4588

M-Rick · Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 8:54 am Post subject:

thank you ! Smile

nic for /opt/local path, like this it will not come to polute my /usr/local and I will just have to delete the /opt folder to erase OOo.

fridrich · Agent Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 10

A pretty up-to-date build can be found at
ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680/SRC680_m83/Build-1/

fabrizio venerandi · Guest

dezipping the last link, I have a lot of installer installing pieces of Oo. Where do they install Oo? Why are 10+ different installers?

naramsin · Sentinel Joined: Mar 13, 2004 Posts: 27

yoxi · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 3:56 am Post subject: Re: OOo 2.0 for MacOSX X11

fabrizio venerandi · Guest

I used terminal

Fredrik · Guest

Or use Firefox.
(Have not downloaded, have no time for play right now, but I could browse the directories)

Cheers
Fredrik

yoxi · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:24 am Post subject:

fabrizio venerandi · Guest

safari do not have ftp

for x11 you can also put the

/opt/openoffice.org1.9.83/program/soffice

string in x11 'Application' menu, without the old starter for old Oo 1.1

A thing I never understand: why apple says x11 support quartz antialiasing, and Oo have not the quartz that neooffice got?

f.

yoxi · Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:38 pm Post subject:

Got it working now - though it has the old 'contextual menus too tall for the screen' problem - you can scroll down the menu, but the top item is hidden.

It's pretty, but actually I find the toolbars harder to make out, they're so muted and 'fussy' compared to the old ones.

Incidentally, for starting it up, you can also use Coool, an alternative startup app to 'Start OpenOffice.org'; it gives you a little menu of Writer, Calc etc. to open if you ctrl-click on the dock icon (or a launchpad with buttons if you like that). Just needs to new path to the OOo app entering in the prefs.

- yoxi

aussie149 · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject: Launching OO0 2.0 in X11/XDarwin

This is great. I had downloaded the Windows version of OOo 2.0 to have a look at it under Virtual PC, but that of course is s-l-o-w and tedious, so I am delighted to find this javascript:emoticon(' Very Happy

') . I didn't think it existed. Now I have it running, thanks to fabrizio's advice, within minutes of downloading!

I run an XDarwin environment with both Gnome and KDE panels. I like to have things set up similarly to OSX. I now have a one-button launch, as I would have in OSX. Here's how [I'd add a screenshot if I knew how]:

Find an empty region on the KDE kicker panel [ie where you have no launch button for another program]

Cmd-click
That brings up a menu

Add>Special button>Non-KDE Application takes you to a setup screen for your launch

Your cursor should be in the "Executable" box. Click on "select file..." button and navigate to:

/opt/openoffice.org1.9.83/program/

select "soffice" [or "swriter" if you only want to launch writer or "simpress" if..]

This should insert an executable path into the box.

Then add a button by clicking on the hollow rectangle and selecting an icon [I actually browse to where I have some nicer OOo open source icons]

Press OK a couple of times, and you should have an OOo launch button in your panel.

Hope this may be of use to someone. There's probably a better way. I'm an aged newbie, so I'm still learning. Confused

gand · Pure-blooded Human Joined: May 31, 2004 Posts: 31

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