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Openoffice Extension Support Coming

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While it has gained the attention of many governments and organisations through its philosophy and OpenDocument file format, OpenOffice.org has not to date enjoyed the same enthusiastic take up that Firefox has. This could be set to change, however, as the next version of the open source office suite will, like its web browsing brother, include plug-in extension support.

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Comments (11)

peragrin ·
personally I would rather have an ODF plugin for firefox for a read only ODF documents in a web page.

sort of like the PDF plugins.

Open Office though is in need of a major rewrite. It's almost as bad as Xfree86 was. At least the people are nicer.
jimf ·
> Open Office though is in need of a major rewrite. It's almost as bad as Xfree86 was. At least the people are nicer.

I have to agree with that assessment. It also needs a major interface re-design. Right now, It's inefficient and butt ugly. Plugins can wait.
dcparris ·
I still prefer the old 5.2 integrated interface. I actually preferred that level of integration, but that's just me.
jimf ·
> but that's just me.

Maybe not, I hear the same from a lot of people. I',m now using Abiword for most of my new documents for exactly that reason. Still, I find I occasionally need something from OO, so I still have a copy on the machine :(
tuxchick2 ·
I guess I'm the oddball. I think OOo, despite its stupid name, is a powerhouse than run rings around ms office, and especially ms word. It has a different way of doing things, and the documentation and forums aren't exactly helpful, but there are a couple of excellent books out in dead-tree land. My one wish is a modular installation- why should a user have to download the entire suite when they only want a word processor, or a spreadsheet, or whatever.

And I still hate Java.
jimf ·
> is a powerhouse than run rings around ms office, and especially ms word.

For what it's worth, I wouldn't dispute that... Feeble praise indeed.
dcparris ·
Having published a book in OOo, I definitely prefer it to MSO. Between paragraph and character styles, and the document navigator, I'm a pretty big OOo fan. Wouldn't complain if it did load a little faster, but load speed is not my big complaint. Just give me back my old interface. :-)
tuxchick2 ·
Why? Your old interface sucks.

/runs away fast
jimf ·
Lol, with minor changes in Linux history, we might all be running WordPerfect...
dcparris ·
TC: :-D

jimf: You might just have a point there. I might still be sold on WordPerfect, too. Who knows? Not now, of course.

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