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One of the most common tasks I want to do in a spread sheet is to graph data once I've put it in there. Calc: Insert -> Object -> Chart (near the bottom) Gnu
by beloch 12y ago
One of the most common tasks I want to do in a spread sheet is to graph data once I've put it in there.
Calc: Insert -> Object -> Chart (near the bottom)
Gnumeric: Insert -> Chart (near the top)
There are hundreds of little things like this that have made me a dedicated Gnumeric user. Calc apes excel badly, while gnumeric has forged its own distinct user interface. It's a little different, but the differences make sense and work well once you get the hang of them. An additional nice feature of gnumeric is that it's a tiny stand-alone download as compared to the slow pain of installing LibreOffice. Whether on linux or windows, you can have Gnumeric up and running in ten seconds. I seem to recall from my last flirtation with OSX that it was pretty annoying to get gnumeric running there, but it was still possible.
Unfortunately, gnumeric has been gradually degenerating into a memory-hole riddled piece of crapware under linux, and the developers responsible for this slide have recently stopped development on the windows executable as well. The fact that the windows binary was working better than the linux version when they gave up on it is all manners of stupid. I honestly don't know what they're doing, but gnumeric is getting pretty much unusable under linux. Maybe running an old version of the windows executable under Wine would work better. If so, that's just sad.
- orkoden 12y agoGnumeric and Abiword have been pretty much abandonware for years now.
- aw3c2 12y agoGnumeric is actively developed: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnumeric/log/ https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnumeric/log/
- cgh 12y agoAbiword's last release was Dec. 2014. Not sure about Gnumeric as I don't use it.
- JohnTHaller 12y agoAbiword's last Windows release was in June of 2010. The last Mac release was in 2006 and it's not even listed for download on the official site anymore.
- cgh 12y agoRight, I only use it on Linux so that's why I was confused. Thanks for the clarification.
- SwellJoe 12y agoThat's a shame. Abiword was, for years, my favorite word processor. Simple enough to be instantly useable, but powerful enough to get the jobs I needed to do done. And, its PDF export was among the best and most fool-proof available (aside from using Adobe Acrobat tools on Windows on Mac) for quite a while. But, I haven't installed it or needed a local word processor in years. I use Google Docs for everything, because I don't have to keep up with where stuff is. I just login and there it is, no matter what device I'm on (though I should redo my Google Drive and Gmail backup setup...I used to have it automated, but haven't done a backup in years now; the cloud makes me lazy and too trusting).
- aw3c2 12y agoApart from the visuals I have not many problems with Gnumeric on Linux. Are you reporting those holes? I love it, it is the best spreadsheet I know, especially if you plot time series.
- beloch 12y agoI'm a filthy KDE user, so they don't care if I run into memory holes or UI bugs.