Ease (lightweight powerpoint) on slitaz?

SliTaz Forum » English Support » Packages

Ease (lightweight powerpoint) on slitaz?

(7 posts) (5 voices)

Started 10 years ago by frash23
Latest reply from moulefrite
This topic is not a support question

Tags:

No tags yet.

frash23

offline
Member
Hello!
After taking a short look at the office packages, i saw that the essential programs from the gnome office packages was included (abiword, gnumeric), but i would REALLY like to see EASE (https://live.gnome.org/Ease) on slitaz. It is a lightweight alternative to Open * impress, just more lightweight (like what abiword is to Open writer).

I am not very experienced with repackaging (i have never experimented with it), but ill test the tazpkg convert command when i get to my laptop (with slitaz).

If any slitaz dev sees this, consider adding this to the main repo please!
```
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:natesm/ease
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ease
```
Attachments
Ease_reference.jpg (51.7 KB, 1,434 downloads) 10 years old
Posted 10 years ago #
aniguenni

offline
Member

I downloaded the user friendly and stable FreeOffice ...

http://www.freeoffice.com/en/

... wich includes:

FreeOffice TextMaker
more than just Word-compatible: It is not only great at document creation.

FreeOffice PlanMaker
spreadsheet convinces with ease-of-use, speed, and presentation-quality charts.

and FreeOffice Presentations
presents itself as a capable, easy to use alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint.

Where's the catch? There is none. And if you like SoftMaker FreeOffice as much as tens of thousands of other users do, maybe you'll switch to its commercial version, SoftMaker Office 2012, which provides additional features.

Posted 10 years ago #
frash23

offline
Member

It's 62 MB (for source tar.gz).
Gnumeric and abiword together, on slitaz at least, is 4 MB or something.
Ease is in the same office "pack" as abiword and gnumeric, so i would assume it wouldnt be much larger than 5MB. I know there are many great office packs out there, but the gnome office pack is super lightweight and fully functional, which was my reason for requesting this.

Posted 10 years ago #
kultex

offline
Key Master

@frash23

you cannot count only tazpkg, you have to count also the depencies installed - freeoffice doen not install any depencies

you can try to convert the rpm package to a tazpkg

http://pkgs.org/fedora-17/fedora-i386/ease-0.4-18.fc17.i686.rpm.html

with "tazpkg convert ease-0.4-18.fc17.i686.rpm" as root

Posted 10 years ago #
Trixar_za

offline
Key Master

In total Gnumeric and Abiword will still be a smaller download, file formats support and feature wise I would go with FreeOffice. It gives you everything you'll get with OpenOffice for like 1/8 of the download size.

Posted 10 years ago #
frash23

offline
Member

My point is that Abiword and gnumeric together (in tazpkg format) is under 4MB in size. FreeOffice is more than 10 times that. I still havent tried convert, but i still think it would be a nice addon to the tazpkg repository.

Posted 10 years ago #
moulefrite

offline
Member

Maybe. But FreeOffice can work portable (so you don't have to install it really)
And if you want to work in collaboration with MsOffice users, you can forget Abiword as it never reproduce the same document. i.e : a .docx on 3 pages is dislocated and spread on 4 pages and lots of elements are not even displayed when opened in Abiword. FreeOffice is more compatible.
It's hard to do lobbying among friends but if you do, I suggest you directly impose .odt as default format among friends rather then wasting time re-plot graphics, tables and so

Just a pitty that FreeOffice doesn't comes with gtk. It looks so ugly by now.

Posted 10 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.

Ease (lightweight powerpoint) on slitaz?

Attachments

Reply