OpenOffice ships Aqua Mac alpha

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[nagromme]

Cool. I'll stick with NeoOffice rather than an alpha of course, but it's nice to see the main OpenOffice project no longer needing X11.

(I wonder if the dialogs in aqua OO are more Mac-like than the ones in NO?)

[psychofreak]

There has just been a new snapshot:

http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/news/2008/20080319AquaDevRelease.html

[Quillz]

Any screenshots?

[psychofreak]

Any screenshots?

I hope (but doubt) that they will work with the NeoOffice guys to get the nice icons. BTW it is a fast torrent, between 600kb/s and 1.5mb/s for me.

The load says Beta, oddly. It feels very Windows-y, like the unrounded menus. There is no grammar check. While the first few characters took two seconds to appear, its quite responsive (unlike the previous builds). This is a major step forward, but there seems to be a long way to go. Its faster than NeoOffice to start.

Screenshots:

http://mt15.quickshareit.com/share/picture3a0f1d.png

http://mt14.quickshareit.com/share/picture4fed28.png

http://mt11.quickshareit.com/share/picture5ec845.png

http://mt15.quickshareit.com/share/picture61d341.png

[MikeTheC]

Very nice. I will definitely be telling people about this, since I think anything we can do to help relegate yet another Microsoft product to the sidelines is a worthwhile expenditure of effort and time.

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