I would like to install Lotus Symphony on Gentoo. Unfortunately there is no ebuild for it; also the ebuild was promised on the forums. So please create one. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: No ebuild in portage tree Expected Results: Ebuild in portage tree
*bump* yes, please :)
(In reply to comment #1) > *bump* > > yes, please :) > Honestly, I tried to set it up myself. Got tons of errors. Maybe someone gets it running and shares his thoughts?
Symphony is the first office suite that’s not incredibly pathetic by trying to imitate the already very crappy MS Office. (I look at you OOo!) Instead it has a sidebar which reminds me of Lotus WordPro’s InfoBox, which was far ahead of everything, including the most recent MS Office’s new tool bar design. (Which is a ripoff of the InfoBox with a lot of extra FAIL added in, in classical MS fashion.) Because of that, I too would very very much like to try this thing out, and I can only recommend others to do so too. I hope they really allowed elimination of those incredibly retarded *modal* dialogs under the “Format” menu. Otherwise I just as much refuse to use it, as I refuse to use MS Office (-ancestors and recent version) clones.
I just put app-office/lotus-notes into cvs. It is just base ebuild which launches the required app and I didn't state all x86 deps properly so it has only amd64 keyword for now. If you want to improve it open bugs and attach patches as I surely won't have much time or motivation to look into it. (as a side note the sidebar will be part of libreoffice-4.2 release)
Oh, I forgot about that one. I even thought Symphony was already dead. I just went ahead, and wrote my own document editor, using XHTML*, CSS3 and JavaScript. Which went surprisingly. But I’m in the process of releasing my own OS shell (not in a browser), so I won’t release it until that’s done. I lost interest in Symphony long ago. Thank you anyway, for the effort. :) ___ * f*ck you WhatWG, you bunch of lunatics.
