OpenOffice.org 2.1.0 Released!

The OpenOffice.org team released version 2.1.0 a couple of days ago, and I've finally got my build script for it updated. I've not had a chance to do any heavy testing with the package yet, but I'm fairly certain that it's ready for production use. However, if it crashes your computer, drinks your beer, sleeps with your girlfriend, and sodomizes your cat, don't blame me - I warned you... ;-) If after all that you still want the package, it's in my /testing repo.

OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 Released!

...and I've got a good package for Slackware! I had to work around a bug in Xfce to get the Menu entries to work properly in Xfce, but that's settled now, and this package was built with what is almost certainly the cleanest script I've ever used for it - it just keeps getting better with time... :) Thanks to the numerous people who've provided feedback on both the script and packages. Also, updates to wine-0.9.23 and gqview-2.1.2 should be coming soon.

I've got a new stable version of vte (which is bundled with Xfce for Terminal) pulled down, but I'm going to hold off until the Xfce developers release 4.4rc2 before I rebuild Xfce - they've got the xfdesktop mess with dbus/dbus-glib sorted out, and those dependencies will no longer be required, so I can make packages available for a stock Slackware 11.0 system without adding other deps. For those who want the added functionality (and bugs) of dbus, I'll continue to offer builds against it as well.

OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 RC3

I've posted some new OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 RC3 packages in my /testing repository - give it a try and see what you think. Among the many bugfixes and feature enhancements slated for 2.0.4, two are notable. First, 2.0.4 will have an 'online update' feature similar to what's available in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird; exactly how this will work and how/if it will be compatible with repackaged binaries remains to be seen. Second, OOo will now honor proxy settings and default mail client settings configured in kde. Feedback is certainly encouraged; if you would prefer to build the package yourself with the build script, here it is.

OpenOffice.org and Xfce Updates

I've rebuilt the xfce 4.4 beta 2 (4.3.90.2) packages, as the author of xarchiver released a new version yesterday. I also made several changes to the xfce4-goodies package; the battery plugin and weather plugin were upgraded to newer versions, which should fix the various issues people were having with them, and I've added three new plugins: thunar media tags, sensors, and xmms.
I've also upgraded the openoffice.org package; I've been working on the build script a little at a time for several weeks while reading quite a bit of the freedesktop.org information. Instead of including our own, we now use the *.desktop files included with the official binaries. Also, we no longer create/replace /etc/mailcap and /etc/mime.types, as these didn't accomplish my objective at all, and otherwise provided no measurable benefit so far as I can tell. To make a long story short, I don't see a way to set OOo as the system-wide default for anything other than its own file types - this has to be done by each user. See the shared mime info spec and standard mime actions spec at FreeDesktop.org for more information.