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OpenOffice.org 3.1 releasedOpenOffice.org 3.1 releasedPosted May 8, 2009 14:20 UTC (Fri) by jmayer (subscriber, #595)Parent article: OpenOffice.org 3.1 released
> The biggest single change (half a million lines of code!) and the most
> visible is the major revamp of OpenOffice.org on-screen graphics. > Techies call it anti-aliasing
Can anyone please explain how a single feature rework can be 500,000
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OpenOffice.org 3.1 released Posted May 8, 2009 16:27 UTC (Fri) by thyrsus (subscriber, #21004) [Link]
I'm a little worried at that size, myself. As a very casual user of OpenOffice, the only deficiency I've experienced in the last couple years is that it takes a long time to start up - the first time; once it's in memory, it's fine. Since 90% of the point is displaying text, it sounds like there's going to be an new mandatory megabyte or so to page in. We'll see.
My real worries about OpenOffice are outside the control of the OpenOffice authors. I'd like to see the anti-trust judge fine Microsoft $50 billion for that obscenity of a standards proposal on their new format, and another $50 billion for deliberately using an incompatible ODF implementation.
Just enough to remind Microsoft what "abuse of monopoly" means. Not that it would ever happen.
I'm not comforted by the seemingly slow adoption of the new Microsoft formats; it takes a long time for companies to switch, but switch they do: I'm starting to see the dread ...x formats at work in just the last couple months.
OpenOffice.org 3.1 released Posted May 8, 2009 17:11 UTC (Fri) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link]
Maybe they swapped out one 500,000 line rendering library for a new one?
Or it's typical Java code, where 40% of it is auto-generated using wizards and another 40% is cut-and-paste with minor changes each time.
OpenOffice.org 3.1 released Posted May 8, 2009 17:57 UTC (Fri) by khc (subscriber, #45209) [Link]
I don't know how this misconception started, but openoffice is _not_ written in Java, except for some optional components.
OpenOffice.org 3.1 released Posted May 13, 2009 13:46 UTC (Wed) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695) [Link]
Most likely it came from the two factors of "Sun has been near the source" and "why the feck does the build require tcsh and java to even function?".
OpenOffice.org 3.1 released Posted May 8, 2009 17:19 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
One single thorougly unexciting feature which they'd already have had for
free if they used *anything* approximating a standard toolkit.
This part of the release notes read as 'hey! we reinvent every wheel in a
OpenOffice.org 3.1 released Posted May 11, 2009 18:58 UTC (Mon) by Sho (subscriber, #8956) [Link]
Dimily remembering a blog post on the anti-aliasing work from a couple of months ago, iirc a lot of the internal calculation work in the applications wasn't done with sufficient precision to allow for a more modern representation involving anti-aliasing, so they had to modernize/improve lots of internals beyond just the drawing code itself.
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