3 ms·

I tried it awhile back, but it's also extremely slow on an M1 and I found the UI issues even more annoying than the ones I was used to in OpenOffice.

hutzlibu 5y ago
As far as I understand, apache open office is not really in active developement, unlike libre office. So maybe try it again at some point. (the main developers left open office to fork it as libre office, after oracle aquired sun and open office with it, but destroyed it and after it was burned and pretty much without contributers, donated the name to the apache foundation, who for reasons unknown to me, do not want to merge again)
- hutzlibu 5y ago
  About the reaons of the not happening merger between open office and libre office, it might be because of license issues. LibreOffice is with copyleft and OpenOffice switched to dual licence https://mobile.twitter.com/ApacheOO/status/1316422829202604032 https://mobile.twitter.com/ApacheOO/status/13164228292026040... Frustrating.
einpoklum 5y ago
Please file bugs about these issues at: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ (but first search for pre-existing reports about them.) Also consider donating to the project, and writing relevant people (e.g. Engineering Steering Council?), petitioning them to work on the quality of M1 support.
- noduerme 5y ago
  I'll give it another go and file what I see. I can't recall exactly what problems I ran into, but I remember having trouble with choppy scrolling and some UI elements appearing blurred. But I'll need to play with it again. It was awhile ago. I'm always happy to support a project if I end up using it ;)
  - einpoklum 5y ago
    I've filed something like... well, probably over 60 bugs related to RTL, Hebrew, and Arabic support (in addition to many others). In my experience, something like... maybe half or so have gotten some traction on them within a year of filing, and many have been completely resolved. Sometimes even quickly.

hutzlibu 5y ago

As far as I understand, apache open office is not really in active developement, unlike libre office. So maybe try it again at some point. (the main developers left open office to fork it as libre office, after oracle aquired sun and open office with it, but destroyed it and after it was burned and pretty much without contributers, donated the name to the apache foundation, who for reasons unknown to me, do not want to merge again)

hutzlibu 5y ago
About the reaons of the not happening merger between open office and libre office, it might be because of license issues. LibreOffice is with copyleft and OpenOffice switched to dual licence https://mobile.twitter.com/ApacheOO/status/1316422829202604032 https://mobile.twitter.com/ApacheOO/status/13164228292026040... Frustrating.

einpoklum 5y ago

Please file bugs about these issues at: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ (but first search for pre-existing reports about them.) Also consider donating to the project, and writing relevant people (e.g. Engineering Steering Council?), petitioning them to work on the quality of M1 support.

noduerme 5y ago
I'll give it another go and file what I see. I can't recall exactly what problems I ran into, but I remember having trouble with choppy scrolling and some UI elements appearing blurred. But I'll need to play with it again. It was awhile ago. I'm always happy to support a project if I end up using it ;)
- einpoklum 5y ago
  I've filed something like... well, probably over 60 bugs related to RTL, Hebrew, and Arabic support (in addition to many others). In my experience, something like... maybe half or so have gotten some traction on them within a year of filing, and many have been completely resolved. Sometimes even quickly.