I think the OOo guys are aware of its shortcomings due to the disclaimers that they provide on the website and in the installer.  Probably the most disappointing aspect of OOo on Mac was the truly awful font rendering.  Though this may have just been the font it chose to use when it loaded a Word Doc.  I will have to toy with it some more.  Hopefully at some point in the future the OOo MacOS port team will be able to provide a Cocoa native build.  Until then geeks will put up with the X11 build and "normal" mac users will continue to use MS Office or settle for the bundled AppleWorks package if they don't "need" Office functionality.  I note that even AppleWorks looks out of place.  It appears to be either a quick port of a "Classic" MacOS 9 app or something even odder...

OOo "fits in" on Windows and Linux (especially if you use the Ximian build with all the Gnome integration patches, likewise the SuSe KDE build).  It sticks out like a puss filled zit on MacOS X.

Regards

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 14:25, Gavin Denby wrote: 
I think its a correct and fair assessment. I wish it were not so, I 
guess I have just gotten use to living with it. We made a conscious 
decision to use Open Office and so we have it everywhere, and I dont 
think about it any more, but now that I am looking at it. .............. 
I feel your pain, Yes you are right.

please give the feedback to the OO team. I think they really need to 
hear why mac users don't use OO as much as they could, Esp when they 
have worked so hard to make the development tools for mac OSX available 
free. And made Darwin open source too.






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