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I had no idea the lineage of LibreOffice went back that far. I wonder how much StarOffice code still remains in the repo.
by doright 2y ago
I had no idea the lineage of LibreOffice went back that far.
I wonder how much StarOffice code still remains in the repo.
- mattl 2y agoGiven that StarWriter was initially for the 8-bit Z80 based Amstrad CPC in 1985, I’d wager very little.
- Hooray_Darakian 2y agoCould be a fun target to run git-of-theseus on
- technothrasher 2y agoI've been following it along the whole time. I fondly remember using StarOffice on my SGI Indigo back in the early 1990's to do all my homework in college.
- pixelpoet 2y agoLikewise! For some reason I had it chronologically penciled in roughly with Firefox's introduction. Oh man, I'd better call my mom, and schedule a doc appt...
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- moolcool 2y ago> I wonder how much StarOffice code still remains in the repo. The UI/UX doesn't feel like it's changed very much
- mksaunders2 2y agoThe "NotebookBar" tabbed user interface is a huge change and was implemented a few years ago. Still needs some refinement (anyone is welcome to help the Design community volunteers!) but there have been some very big changes...
- ok123456 2y agoStarOffice was exciting circa 1999. You could get an office suit on Linux that was useable and largely compatible with MS Office.
- xattt 2y agoI was on a Computer Chronicles kick and watched a late-80s demo of a Sun workstation with StarOffice. It was then that I realize the legacy of the app.
- gspencley 2y agoIt's too bad that that's kind of changed. Don't get me wrong, I use LibreOffice a lot, but I kind of despise it. The biggest headache I have, with Writer - which is what I use most often - is that if I select text in order to change the formatting, it changes formatting of stuff not selected. I think this has to do with paragraph styling .. it's just very unintuitive how it figures out what belongs to a paragraph or not. My human brain wants to separate paragraphs with line breaks. So why would formatting selected text on one line change the styling on adjacent lines that aren't selected?! It is extremely infuriating how its styling behaves in general. I think it's also worth noting that rich text formatting is the primary reason to even use a word processor instead of a plain text editor in the first place. Embedded objects and exporting tools are all useful too. But most of what I use Writer for could be done in a text editor if I didn't need styling. So all these years later, a core feature - arguably THE core feature that necessitates the existence of the application to begin with - is still broken and unintuitive. And when I search for help on how to get styling things working etc. and I find posts by other people that share these concerns, the answers are legacy document formats etc. that contain these bugs by design so it's something that's really hard for the developers to fix.
- jonathaneunice 2y agoI dunno about StarOffice code, but the interchange file format became the Open Document Format (ODF) is almost unchanged. I've worked with it since before ODF was formalized. The current version is at most a polishing of structures that have been there well over 20 years. It's also, in extraordinary sharp comparison to the XML structures Microsoft drafted (confusingly called Office Open XML), well-designed and joy to work with.
- stymaar 2y agoIIRXC Office Open XML is so much of a hack Microsoft Office itself doesn't implement the specification correctly/completely.
- n_plus_1_acc 2y agoSome say it's on purpose...
- chris_wot 2y agoPossibly, but I think Hanlon's Razor applies here.
- baumschubser 2y agoAt least the executable is still named "soffice"
- doright 2y agoWow, I just checked and you're right! They even give you a .com file. Reminds me of devenv.exe.