Sun Joins OpenOffice to Mac OS X Porting Efforts

[MikeTheC]

Neo Office responds

They seem onboard to me!

P-Worm

Ah, so that explains it. Mac OS X's UI runs in "Aqua", and NeoOffice runs in "beer".

 

[Fairly]

I'd love to know where you genius pretenders get your information from. Hearsay? The street corner? Your MOM?

Of course Carbon is a modern OS X API, and if you're trying to create C++ programs, it's the easiest API to use. Apple may initially have intended it to be some sort of portability layer, but it continues to be updated, and Apple themselves write major parts of OS X and iApps in it, from the Finder to iTunes.

I'm not saying I wouldn't like it in Cocoa, but it's a stretch to call it "deprecated" or imply that it would be better to use X11 than Carbon.

 

[ravenvii]

Just tried them both.

Yes I am aware that OpenOffice.org for OS X is just a beta, but I think NeoOffice is vastly superior. It looks vastly better, and runs much better. And it seems much more integrated with OS X than OOo is.

I'd still use Pages and Keynote over those two, though.