suka's blog

As mentioned before I've done an interview with Michael Meeks from Novell on OpenOffice.org. It's now ready, so if someone is interested, you can read it here (german translation) or here (english). It's mainly focused on development issues, so if you are interested in some background stuff, take a look.

In more directly Gentoo-related stuff: The first Release Candidate for openoffice-bin-2.0 is now in the tree, so if you are interested in testing, give it a try, as it is still in package.mask, you will have to unmask it for that. One especially cool feature, I'd like to point out: This release now supports 50 different localizations for the UI, compared to the 1 of OOo 1.1.x that's quite an improvement :)

New release of the current stable series of OpenOffice.org is in the tree, both source-based and -bin. After having played around mostly with the 2.0-pre-releases, going back to 1.1.5 is really painful, both feature-wise and in respect to the build-system. Going to upgrade to 1.9.x again immediately, the vanilla OOo-look kills my eyes ;) Just keeping a bin-tarball around for bug fixing. Really hoping that 2.0 comes out fast.

Back from Barcelona, just been there for a few days, unfortunately lot's of work to do, so didn't see much (to be exact: nearly nothing) of the city, hope to get back there for a future vacation, though. Still, at least had the chance to get to the sea, which is always nice :)

Also met with Michael from Novell / OpenOffice.org-fame, very smart guy. Did quite an extensive interview with him on OOo / ooo-build, transcribing right now, which really is a painful process. Wished there would be better speech recognition software ;)