Neo 2.1 differences that affect the NeoWiki

[pluby]

FYI. Over the last few days, I've been trying to think of the things that are different in NeoOffice 2.1 from what we have documented in the NeoWiki. I don't think this stuff needs to be changed right now as EAP releases rarely have more than a thousand or so downloads, but they probably should be changed before March 27 when the flood of downloads starts. So here's my list. Please add any items that I might have missed:

1. http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Troubleshooting_Tips and http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/NeoOffice_Installation_Issues#Before_Installing - In three sections on this page, the NeoOffice.2x preferences folder is mentioned. Starting with NeoOffice 2.1, the preferences folder is ~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-2.1 and Neo 2.1, on first run, will automatically import any preferences from the ~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-2.x folder.

2. http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/NeoOffice_File_Formats - Neo 2.1 has experimental support for Office 2007 Word (.docx) documents.

3. Neo 2.1 has experimental support for Excel macros.

4. Neo 2.1 has the OOo JavaScript and macro security features that were missing from Neo 2.0 Aqua Beta 3.

5. Neo 2.1 supports both Java 1.4.x and 1.5 on both Intel and PowerPC. In Neo 2.0 Aqua Beta 3, the Intel version only supported Java 1.5.

6. http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Disabling_Patch-Checking_and_Donation_Messages - To allow users who don't have admin rights on their machine to disable donation or patch checking for themselves only, users can create the .nocheckforpatches and/or .noshowdonationpage files in the ~/Library/Preferences/NeoOffice-2.1 folder. Like Neo 2.0 Aqua Beta 3, putting these files in the /Applications/NeoOffice.app/Contents/MacOS will disable these checks for all users.

Patrick

[sardisson]