More space on the Xfce spin

Ron Leach ronleach at tesco.net
Wed Jan 26 20:12:25 UTC 2011


Michael Spahn wrote:
>>
> I have neither OpenOffice nor LibreOffice, I'm using only lightweight
> tools on my XFCE.
> And I think Abiword and Gnumeric are great tools.

We use both, and always for MS-office compatibility - we have no 
choice because our counterparties require that; some customers even 
mandate it.  OO is better, I think, at 'WORD' compatibility, but 
Abiword is much quicker to load and become usable.  We've experienced 
real difficulties in 'EXCEL' compatibility and we find that Gnumeric 
has better xls compatibility than OO.  (For our models, anyway.)

So, even if OO/LO were to be found to be fairly widely used by XFCE 
users, we'd strongly vote for Abiword and Gnumeric to remain on the spin.

regards, Ron



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