[svlug] StarOFfice to be GPL'd, integrated with Gnome

[Rick Kwan]

Well actually, I take it back.  Mozilla wasn't so bloated when the
source came out.  At the time, I was shocked because my 8 MB tar.gz
turned into 45 MB tar, turned into 200 MB+ of workspace (source,
.o files, libraries, etc.)  But in the end, the real executable
was about 10MB.  (My numbers may be slightly off.)  The workspace
was bloated, but the executable apparantly was not.

StarOffice... well... I'm amazed what that consumes of my laptop.
But it has been handy for opening up Word and PowerPoint files.

My point was going to be, if you thought Mozilla was bloated (which
I thought at first), then StarOffice is a monster.  But Mozilla,
on hindsight, isn't so bad.  (But still, I hate to think what the size
of the StarOffice build workspace must be.)

--Rick Kwan

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, J C Lawrence wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:50:19 -0700 (PDT) 
> Rick Kwan <kenobi at lightsaber.com> wrote:
> 
> > Then again... do you think Mozilla was bloated when the source
> > became available?
> 
> That's a tough argument given the existance of Gecko as an
> extractable module and thus things like Galeon.  While there are
> things I really like about M16 and I now use it for about half my
> browsing I'm left with four complaints (in descending severity):
> 
>  -- How can I make a running copy spawn a window on a given URL?
>  -- The browser-history package doesn't log its URLs 
>  -- I could get it stripped to being a browser only ala Navigator
>     instead of ala Communicator.
>  -- Why can't I get the fonts set to 10pt and 8pt respectively?
> 
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