Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> You can adjust the aspect ratio.
> (Oh, and ugliness is often just a being used to a different look. This
> kind of irritation usually vanishes after a while, at which point the
> old GUI starts to "feel ugly".)
Ok, so OpenOffice was horribly broken in this respect but I just did a
distro update and recreated all of our charts and they look fine now.
Aspect ratio is handled correctly, labels are laid out properly, date axes
are formatted correctly and so on.
So I take the ugliness back.
> Is suspect that OO triggered some bugs in the graphics driver.
> Given the historical unwillingness of graphics card companies to publish
> technical data about their cards, this isn't even the fault of the FOSS
> community. (Things seem to change right now for ATI. We'll see whether
> nVidia follows, or whether nVidia will buy AMD. I sincerely hope not!)
I'd be surprised if OpenOffice had graphical requirements that our
visualization software does not, so I'm not sure it is nVidia's fault.
Anyway, only OpenOffice undermined the stability of the system in this
way.
>> . Slow: Startup time is awful but the application even stalls for
several
>> seconds when I update a single cell on a small spreadsheet. Saving a
>> small spreadsheet takes several seconds.
>
> Something must be awfully wrong with your installation. I never
> encountered any of these problems.
Interestingly, I just had a friend to stay last night and he corroborated
what I said: he also finds OpenOffice to be extremely unreliably and slow
as well.
I'll advise him to upgrade to the latest version of OpenOffice... :-)
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