OpenOffice.org Vs LibreOffice: questions

[GiuseppeV]

Hi!

1' question: Can they be installed on the same computer? Or there are conflicts?
2' question: Which is better than other?
3' question: LiberOffice has a better "Report" than OpenOffice?

[Ed2]

1' question: Can they be installed on the same computer? Or there are conflicts?

Yes they can be installed on the same computer.

2' question: Which is better than other?

That question is subjective.

LibreOffice has more features, but is much buggier.

3' question: LiberOffice has a better "Report" than OpenOffice?

Again, which is "better" is subjective.

[DACM]

[Are] there are conflicts?

I'm actually using all four on the same computer at the moment while testing some things. That is: OOo 3.3.0, LibO 3.3.0, OOPortable 3.1.1 and LibOPortable 3.3.0.

I've noticed that only one Quickstarter can run at a time (Windows 7).

I've also noticed that the LibOPortable launcher checks for "soffice" running, whether the Quickstarter or one of the other Office suites running, and complains that another copy is already running and won't start. Although if I start it first in line, or if I bypass the Portable launcher(s) and simply run soffice.exe, it starts-up and runs in tandem with all the others.

But the only real conflict I've seen is opening all four with the same document open in all four. The first one to open the document is read/write while the others are read-only -- as expected... But if I close and exit the first one (read-write), the others (read-only) complain about it and require shutdown to function, followed by 'document recovery' upon restart. So I suspect this could mean data loss in some cases with Base. Bottom line: don't open the same document with OOo and LibO at the same time without a good backup on hand.

[Robert Tucker]

Hyphenation and thesaurus are not, at this moment, as far as I know, available for LibreOffice. Even spelling dictionaries for some languages may not be available – currently I have a spellchecker for a number of English variants and for Italian but not one for German.

B. (Don't) uninstall OpenOffice.org

OOo is well integrated into Ubuntu, and some important packages depend on it, such as hunspell, myspell, localization meta-packages, thesaurus, etc.

⇒ I don't recommend uninstalling OpenOffice.org!

http://www.johannes-eva.net/how-to-inst ... untu-linux

[Hagar Delest]

I use extensively the Navigator in OOo and in LibO, all the levels are not expanded. It means that I've to expand them all manually if I want to have a global view of the content. Definitively a show stopper for me. Perhaps there is a setting to change that.

So it's all subjective. If you don't need the features that don't meet your needs, it's ok.

[esperantisto]

In Windows, you can easily have OOo and LO alongside. I’m not sure about Linux (I’ve seen reports about LO replacing OOo).

LO seems to have a broken StarBasic engine, thus, I can’t use at least one extension I need, namely Anaphraseus, which works perfectly in OOo. So, I stick to OOo so far.

[Hagar Delest]

In Windows, you can easily have OOo and LO alongside. I’m not sure about Linux (I’ve seen reports about LO replacing OOo).

Now it can coexist under GNU/Linux too. The problem was in early betas IIRC.

[hanya]

LO seems to have a broken StarBasic engine, thus, I can’t use at least one extension I need, namely Anaphraseus, which works perfectly in OOo. So, I stick to OOo so far.

I tried to look up the problem of the extension, and I found two errors in it.
First problem in addons.xcu, first node after ?xml definition should be started with "oor:component-data" tag. This change is applied on OOo 3.3 and LO 3.3 according to parser of configurations changes. Starting with "node" tag is also illegal before 3.3.

Another one is "Name" statement in Basic code. The following line

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if FileExists(sFile) Then Name sFile As sFile+".bak"

should be fixed with the next one on LO 3.3.

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if FileExists(sFile) Then
     Name sFile As sFile+".bak"
end if

It seems Name statement has been changed on LO.

[hanya]

They were fixed on newer beta version of Anaphraseus. Just wait its release.

[esperantisto]

Anaphraseus is still unusable with LO on Windows 7 (so far only in this case: on Windows XP it’s fine and is said to be fine on Linux). Since OOo does work, I stick to it

[surfeagle]

My Question would be Which has the better spell checker? Seeing as OpenOffice seems wanting (I have to go to Google to get many words) I might go check out LO for that reason alone.

[PGAGA]

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

They both use Hunspell.

Phil

[franx]

I use extensively the Navigator in OOo and in LibO, all the levels are not expanded. It means that I've to expand them all manually if I want to have a global view of the content. Definitively a show stopper for me. Perhaps there is a setting to change that. [...]

There's now a discussion about the improvement of the navigator on design<at>libreoffice.org.
See → About the Navigator (started Mar 19, 2011)
<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Ab ... 01544.html>

[Hagar Delest]

I was visiting the list yesterday evening and saw indeed RGB's message and proposal. Thanks for pointing that anyway!

Nice indeed. For me however, it lacks the option keeping the current behavior (expand all the levels by default).