Comments on: A decent Spreadsheet for Mac OS X that’s not Excel

by: Kimbro Staken

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:51:35 +0000

Yeah, I’ve kinda looked at Open Office the same way. It’s definitely the most feature complete, but it’s also quite bloated and has an antiquated feeling UI. I’d much rather use a newer, thinner application with a cleaner user interface. If I was a power user I’d probably feel differently but as it is it’s been about two years since I’ve even needed to print anything out I don’t think I qualify.

by: Jussi

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:12:26 +0000

I frankly don’t understand why OOo, is so popular. I’ve always found it to be a bad copy of a 90’s MS Office UI wise. In addition to that it’s *huge* and slow.

Sure it’s free but that’s not the most important thing in the world, right?

by: Laurent Godard

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:32:02 +0000

OpenOffice.org is going on native macosX port. For now a full working X11 version is available

The native port preview will be available later in this year but OOo is definitivelly the way to go

Moreover, OOo has great scripting capabilities as it support python and other languages

http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions_development_python

by: Kimbro Staken

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:51:05 +0000

I haven’t tried it lately, but the UI on it bugged me in the past. I just took a look at it again and it looks like it may be quite a bit better now. However, I’ve been really hoping to find something with a native Cocoa UI even if the app is somewhat simplistic.

by: Cowmix

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:35:14 +0000

Have you tried NeoOffice? I have been using since it’s early alpha days and its pretty good. They even have a native Intel version…