Word 5 - sinclair44

You may be interested in NeoOffice. It's a full OS X overhaul of OpenOffice 1.1.4 and feels like an OS X-native app (because it is!)

http://www.neooffice.org/

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Sunday, October 23 2005 @ 02:42 PM PDT

Word 5 - Edwin-schemer

Whether OOo or Word "looks better" is a matter of taste.
What matters is -- does it do what it needs to, and at a "reasonable" cost.
Free is definitely more reasonable than what MS charges.
So if you like "Word' use it. If you don't like X11 (I happen to like it) don't.
If you want a more "pont-and-clicque" versioo,. try NeoOfifceJ.
(This was posted by an emacs-LaTeX afficionado, as you may have guessed by my nickname -- Edwin is my middlke name).

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Sunday, October 23 2005 @ 04:28 PM PDT

Word 5 - Tim McNamara

OpenOffice.org does not and never will follow the Apple Human Interface Guidelines (or whatever the exact name is). It will follow the Unix stadards. However, OO.o has had a Cocoa makeover. It's called NeoOffice. http://www.neooffice.org

Cheers!

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Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 11:17 AM PST

Word 5 - jspectre

i'm using a word processor to type up docuements. not gawk at how pretty the UI is. give me something fast, stable, that can read and write my files.

who cares if the UI looks like word 5 or word 1 or a blue kangraoo?!?! i guess if you want a pretty UI go out and buy office, if you want to type up documents and save some $$$, use OO.

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Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 11:33 AM PST

Word 5 - cosborn72

I run OpenOffice on the Mac, Win Xp and linux(kubuntu) platforms, and it looks far better on the latter two. In XP, OO looks and feels almost exactly like MS Office. There is no comparison in linux (MS Office isn't available), but OpenOffice is fully intergrated into both the KDE and Gnome desktops.

If you're looking for something a little more aqua, you could try NeoOffice. It is based on OpenOffice, but runs native on OSX and is better intergrated. I use both. Although I prefer OpenOffice, NeoOffice is fine for most basic functions.

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Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 11:59 AM PST

Word 5 - deejemon

What some people appear to be forgetting (or not understanding in the first place) is that look-and-feel has as much to do with the usability of the software as the core functionality. You may have an appliation that is the most feature-packed and feature-complete, but if it's got the worst UI in the world, users aren't going to _want_ to use it. It's true of websites and it's true of applications.

Dismissing UI complaints as "who cares" if it will "type up documents" is pretty ridiculous. I mean, please, we're Mac users. If that was truly the case, we'd use Windows. Or TextEdit.

I wonder if OpenOffice.org has considered/is looking at XUL to implement the GUI. It's not perfect, and looks a little funny at times, but it's a whole lot cleaner than startin' up a whole X11 thing on top of the requirements of the application itself.

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Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 05:06 PM PST