On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 05:50:12 Felix Miata wrote:
I'm using 42.1 with KDE3 as primary OS and DE, with 13.1, 13.2, TW, Mageia, Fedora and more, with Plasma5, KDE4 and TDE, available on other machines.
I've been using OS/2 to run Quatro Pro for DOS for over 20 years, but I needed a bit more flexibility for a bug hunt project, more columns on screen at once than a DOS app can manage. I tried KSpread (kde3-koffice-spreadsheet), which just cost me 5 day's work as explained on the opensuse-kde3 list on 2016-02-29 04:01 (UTC-0500). (Archiving seems to be broken at least for -kde3 if not others)
I tried installing LibreOffice, but it was unusable, ignoring the DE's DPI, resulting in insanely tiny text in both UI and content, and icons worse than uselessly small.
I tried Apache's OpenOffice, but it crashes on startup: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2016-02/msg01431.html
Cloud SS apps like Google's are not an option.
The only others I recognize as spreadsheets in YaST are Calligra (KDE?), and Gnumeric (Gnome).
Anyone have a spreadsheet to recommend?
Maybe I should stick with KOffice, just with other file formats than .sxc?
Sorry to say this, but having used Lotus 1-2-3, Star/Open/LibreOffice, Kcalc and probably one other on OS/2 that I can't remember the name of, I keep coming back to MS Excel. It is the only M$ product that I truly like and find useful, helpful and intuitive. It doesn't hurt that I've also learned to automate it a fair bit using VBA, in ways that I've never been able to achieve as easily nor as effectively in other spreadsheets. I have run it under both Wine (using CrossOver Linux) and a Virtualbox VM. It's usable either way (but VirtualBox has fewer surprises). Yeah, I know it's probably not *the* answer you wanted, but it is *an* answer, and one that works for me. :) Cheers, Rodney. -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org