This blog entry tells me one thing:  software developers are still stupid.  Have we not learned anything from bloated Windows environments?  Why don't we just tie the X environment into the kernel and then embed all our X applications inside that!  WOW!  Let's see if we can keep the CPU busy 100% of the time while exhausting all available memory and swap – just so we can see what day it is.

What this probably means is that the suite will include thunderbird and Sunbird as separate tools but that they won't actually be embedded in the other tools in the suite.  Okay, so that won't drag my system down worse than Writer already does (sucks trying to use OO and mythtv frontend at the same time on my laptop, though it didn't use to be so bad prior to upgrading to FC5 and the latest version of each from FC2).  But that's still a big honkin' package I gotta install just to get a word processor.  I never use Draw.  I never use Calc.  I never use Impress.  Just Writer.  But I got a ton of wasted disk space for stuff I don't give a rip about. 

I don't know what genius thought this up, but it gives me reason to want to stop using OpenOffice, just as I long ago stopped using Word.  I need a word processor.  Not a calendar.  Not a mail reader.  Just a word processor.  Unfortunately, publishers tend to want standard format documents.  They recently got on the OpenOffice bandwagon.  If I switch to AbiWord (is that still being developed?), will the publishers accept it?  Beats me.

At least LWN.net and LinuxFormat still accept my stuff in plain text.  Viva la VI! Some people still have a clue, thankfully.