{"id":368,"date":"2005-03-02T11:21:51","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T01:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2005-03-02T11:21:51","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T01:21:51","slug":"openofficeorg-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/02\/openofficeorg-20\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenOffice.org 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I installed the preview packages in Ubuntu on my desktop this morning &#8211; just to play with for a few mins. Guess What? It looks like it doesn&#8217;t completely suck!<\/p>\n<p>Some of the UI still feels\/looks really weird &#8211; but that seems to be a legacy of the strange widget stuff that it used to use.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;File->Send->Document as E-Mail&#8221; and &#8220;Document as PDF Attachment&#8221; are pretty funky things (assuming they link into evo properly).<\/p>\n<p>The presentation module, Impress looks to have improved no-end. 1.1 was sucky (just like PowerPoint). If you&#8217;ve ever used Apple&#8217;s Keynote, you know how good presentation software can be. The new one looks to be usable and may mean I swear a lot less when preparing presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Although why OO.org has it&#8217;s own package manager is <b>totally<\/b> beyond me.<\/p>\n<p>I do wish the MySQL connectivity worked out of the box though&#8230; maybe it&#8217;s just this beta (or the fact that when you select OO.org in synaptic, it doesn&#8217;t load up all the Java stuff needed for JDBC connectivity, or ODBC).<\/p>\n<p>Note that I still love Gnumeric and Abiword.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I installed the preview packages in Ubuntu on my desktop this morning &#8211; just to play with for a few mins. Guess What? It looks like it doesn&#8217;t completely suck! Some of the UI still feels\/looks really weird &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/02\/openofficeorg-20\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-gnome","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-5W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3929,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/07\/mysql-next-drizzle-5-years-ago\/","url_meta":{"origin":368,"position":0},"title":"MySQL-next = Drizzle 5 years ago?","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2015-02-07","format":false,"excerpt":"With JSON functionality, alternate protocols (HTTP, memcache), a move towards saner defaults and crash safety, pluggable logging etc it really looks like MySQL is following what we did in Drizzle years ago, which is great!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;drizzle&quot;","block_context":{"text":"drizzle","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/work-et-al\/drizzle-work-et-al\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":477,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/03\/melbourne-mysql-user-group\/","url_meta":{"origin":368,"position":1},"title":"Melbourne MySQL User Group","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2005-10-03","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm getting responses of people wanting to come to the next meeting. 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