[ale] oocalc: a sad story from a oocalc newbie

[Greg Freemyer]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:31 PM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 22:00 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>  > >
>
> > >  ;-)  sad, yes.  But where to place the blame....
>  > >
>  >
>  > I'm a long, long, long time vi user.  (25 years. OMG!!)
>  >
>  > I expect to be able to type <editor> <file> and if it is new it just
>  > creates one for me.
>  >
>  > Or at least says "File does not exist.  Do you want to create it?"
>  >
>  > Fyi: I have no idea what MSO does in this situation and I don't care.
>  > I just don't think OO is meeting typical Linux behavior.
>  >
>  > To be honest, I've been using Linux as my desktop for 4 or 5 months.
>  > I've resorted to the vmware XP solution way more than I would have
>  > expected.
>  >
>  > Greg
>
>  Enquiring minds are dying to know why if you don't mind using xp's gui
>  why you wouldn't in Linux?

I guess I'm just an old CLI guy at heart.  Even in XP I often click
start - run - "excel" - return

I get a nice empty Excel GUI.

In my sad story, my last attempt was to type "oocalc<CR>".  I got
nothing.  No error.  No GUI. It just came right back to a command
prompt.  I guess I could try F2-oocalc today.  (Not at the office
yet).

As I've said, I think it is me often navigating around my system via
the CLI to various directories mounted via cifs, then trying to launch
via the CLI.  OO for me just acts weird (buggy) when I do that and I
keep forgetting.  This is the first bug I've had at launch.

Much more common is that "Save-As" from the GUI fails.  I filed a
bugzilla on that one 3 or 4 months ago, but no resolution.

Greg
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