OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

[Posted December 21, 2005 by corbet]

From:		Louis Suarez-Potts <luispo-AT-gmail.com>
To:		announce-AT-openoffice.org
Subject:		[ooo-announce] OpenOffice.org 2.0.1
Date:		Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:02:05 -0500
Cc:		dev-AT-openoffice.org, dev-AT-marketing.openoffice.org, dev-AT-native-lang.openoffice.org, discuss <discuss-AT-openoffice.org>, users-AT-openoffice.org

MEDIA ALERT

21 December 2005

New release of the free office suite OpenOffice.org offers additional
features

The OpenOffice.org Project today released version 2.0.1 of its office
suite. Eight weeks after the major release 2.0 was published, a first
update is available that brings along new features and remedies minor  
bugs.

The main focus of the new release was correcting bugs, in particular in
localisations. However, a number of new features were added as well. So,
for example, it is now possible to disable and hide particular
application settings, which comes in handy for central administration in
networks. Moreover, a new keyboard shortcut permits the user to return
to a saved cursor position. The bullets and numbering feature has been
expanded, and a new mail merge feature is available.

Last but not least, Macedonian has been added as an official language.
Several other localized versions are also available, such as Turkish,
Russian, Slovenian, Hungarian, Estonian and Bulgarian.

About OpenOffice.org

The OpenOffice.org Project is an international community of volunteers
and sponsors including founding sponsor and primary contributor, Sun
Microsystems. OpenOffice.org develops, supports, and promotes the
open-source office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org. The project can
be found at http://www.openoffice.org/.

OpenOffice.org supports the Open Document Format for Office Applications
(OpenDocument) OASIS Standard and is available on major computing
platforms in over 60 languages. OpenOffice.org is provided under the GNU
Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL).

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 21, 2005 19:35 UTC (Wed) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688) [Link] (1 responses)

Can openoffice do an incremental update like Firefox can or does it require downloading the entire suite and reinstalling?

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 21, 2005 21:38 UTC (Wed) by jarek (guest, #4105) [Link]

Does seem to require a full download (76M). Too bad it still does not export mathtype correctly (have to keep 1.1.4 around to do that).

/jarek

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 22, 2005 9:19 UTC (Thu) by philips (guest, #937) [Link] (7 responses)

Did they have "improved" back language support? - to the state when it works, just like in OOo1?

My company has internally deployed OOo1 couple of years ago. We have tried OOo2 to no avail: some "improvements" like language support just so counter-intuitive that nobody in company yet guessed how it's supposed to work. (Shortly: how do you tell OOo2 that particular piece of text is written in particular language?)

As long as spell-checker is unusable, no approval will be granted. We had quite high hopes for arrival of ODF support, so we are doubly disappointed.

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 22, 2005 10:04 UTC (Thu) by philips (guest, #937) [Link]

And yes, most annoying problem of all OOos: where is my "Find Next" shortcut???

Did you file issues?

Posted Dec 22, 2005 11:48 UTC (Thu) by dank (guest, #1865) [Link]

Sounds like you have some issues with OOo2.
Have you filed bug reports for them yet?
If so, can you give a link to the bug reports?

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 22, 2005 14:02 UTC (Thu) by ahz (guest, #27372) [Link] (4 responses)

>Shortly: how do you tell OOo2 that particular piece
>of text is written in particular language?

1. Highligh text
2. Format->Character

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 22, 2005 15:29 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] (3 responses)

That's a totally bizarre placement for the language setting. It must have come from pre-Unicode days, when different languages used different fonts. But for a modern user, what has language to do with format and characters?

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 22, 2005 20:27 UTC (Thu) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link] (2 responses)

It's a direct copy, I believe of MS Office. Curiously enough, I discovered that KWord has the
function in the same place. It's logical from a programmer's point of view, because character
properties are valid for runs of characters, just like languages.

That doesn't mean that we're not trying to get it out of the font properties dialog in KWord, and
perhaps even actually implement the function.

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 22, 2005 21:42 UTC (Thu) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link] (1 responses)

But where should this go? Took me a while to find it out myself in OOo, but after that I noticed that I had no idea where to look for anyway. Also, I wouldn't know another place because language can change every other word, so it's really something to define at character level.

Curious where it will go in KWord

OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 released

Posted Dec 23, 2005 17:06 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

Language is a property of text, but not directly related to visual format. Yet it should be possible to make language a part of style, e.g. to force words in a specific language to look a certain way.

Since styles and text properties are located under Format, it would be logical to put Language there, but as a separate item, not as part of Character, Paraghaph, Page or anything like that.

Alternatively, Tools->Language->Set Language could be used to put language settings and language actions together.

In the style editor, Language should be a separate tab.

Still unusable

Posted Jan 3, 2006 15:14 UTC (Tue) by alspnost (guest, #2763) [Link]

I *still* have really fundamental problems with OOo2 - for example, I can't SAVE documents. Just a minor oversight, perhaps? Surely I can't be the only person out there with this problem? I'm serious - I open a v1 file, no problems, but cannot save it in any format, let alone the new ODF format. It just says "general error" and generates an empty file. This behaviour is *not* platform-specific; it happens exactly the same under Linux and WinXP.