Open Office Quick Start

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 09:33 -0400, David Teague wrote:
> Has anyone found an OpenOffice.org Quick Start for 
> Ubuntu or other Debian based distribution?

Yes. You just enable the "universe" repository in Ubuntu 

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/AddingRepositoriesHowto

and install:
 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ooqstart-gnome 
> 
> A Google search for OpenOffice.org Quick Start locates 
> references to QS for Gnome and KDE. 
> 
> Here is a URL for one such applet:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-ooqs/
> but the author says it isn't 100% yet.

I don't think you need to worry about this
> 
> Anyone have experience with such an applet that actually 
> works well? 

Yup. Got it running in Warty on both PPC and i386. Only issue I see is
it sometimes crashes on logout, which really doesn't matter anyway...
Just right click the Gnome panel after installing it and choose it, then
configure it by right click and ticking the box to apply it in the
applet preferences.

> Especially with Ubuntu or KUbuntu? That 
> will help me to decide whether to go with Ubuntu 
> (Gnome) or KUbuntu (KDE).

A similar quickstart applet is available for KDE, I believe

peter at panarchy:~ $ apt-cache search open office quickstart
oooqs-kde - OpenOffice.org QuickStarter applet for KDE
ooqstart-gnome - OpenOffice.org QuickStarter applet for GNOME 2

In Tools >> Options >> Memory >> Graphics Cache (in OOo)
increase the available memory (I use 128MB - it will depend on your set
up but it definitely needs increasing).

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