From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,de0abe9655235740 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-01 03:55:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!newsfeed.stueberl.de!teaser.fr!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Amado Alves Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada on the Desktop (was: ACM Ada Letters) Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 11:53:50 +0000 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <3F881B71.7030602@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1067687672 73942 80.67.180.195 (1 Nov 2003 11:54:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 11:54:32 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Nov 2003 11:53:41.0031 (UTC) FILETIME=[CB120B70:01C3A06E] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p5 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1895 Date: 2003-11-01T11:53:50+00:00 On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 20:59, Nick Roberts wrote: > Well, I use OpenOffice as well. I click on the icon to start it up, then go > and make a cup of tea and feed the cat, and sometimes when I come back it's > nearly finished loading. And mine often goes beserk making me loose work. And has other non-fatal really stupid bugs. V. 1.0 did not show italics! V. 1.1 solved this but stopped showing quotation marks! I had to change from Times to some uncommon font. And it can't be conviced I am not in USA. And Nick is lucky to have an icon for it. When I click my icon v. 1.0 shows up. To get v. 1.1 I have to open a terminal and execute "soffice". And to install v. 1.1 I had to do it three times. And I still wonder if there are now three installations of it on my system. And... However--and this is sad--, when compared to Microsof Word, considering price (Word hi, OpenOffice zero), it still wins. In Portugal my experience is most people use Microsoft Word but are (illegally) not paying it. So I wonder if there is a market in the middle ground: low price (10 eurodollars), 0 bugs, ease of installation. I have a name for this kind of project: "Ada on the Desktop."