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(shrug) Depends. It means it's probably a little faster, and may look just a bit more like a normal OS X application. But I haven't actually tried it, or OpenOffice, for a comparison.
I personally hate running anything under X11. I haven't done it in a long time, having found replacements for just about everything I used to use it for.
I thought it said that, even tho you don't need X11, you DO need OS10.2?
Maybe it did. I actually couldn't find the OS requirements, though I admit to not looking very hard. Sorry if I misled.
I can run NeoOfficeJ under 10.3 -- OpenOffice didn't work for me, even with X11 installed. It takes a damn long time to open, but seems largely stable once it's open....
OS X application install question -- most of what I've wanted to install has given me an app and told me to drag it into the application folder.
Now that I've found said folder, easy. But I've expanded the FFView volume, and it's a whole folderful of stuff, with subfolders. I mean, do I drag the volume into the app folder? Do I take the contents of the volume, put them in a normal folder ... what?
Is there any reason, usually, to put apps anywhere other than the app folder? They can run from anywhere, or at least I'm assuming so, since I've run FFView from the volume that's on my desktop.
Also -- the backend stuff is cool. I was poking around the utilities folder and, yay, Unix!
Now that I've found said folder, easy. But I've expanded the FFView volume, and it's a whole folderful of stuff, with subfolders. I mean, do I drag the volume into the app folder? Do I take the contents of the volume, put them in a normal folder ... what?
You can do anything you want with them, including ignore them. I would tend not to put them in the Applications folder, because I don't want it to get too cluttered.
Is there any reason, usually, to put apps anywhere other than the app folder? They can run from anywhere, or at least I'm assuming so, since I've run FFView from the volume that's on my desktop.
The only thing to avoid doing is to take apps came preinstalled in the Applications folder, (or apps that installed themselves in the Application folder), and move them out of the Applications folder. They'll still work, but automatic software updates will fail later on.
Where do you put your apps, Tom?
I put my apps in the Application folder. I just don't put anything else there. If I used FFview, I would put the app in the Applications folder, and throw the rest away.
The rest of the stuff looks like scripts and extras (and a bunch of text files). That's what I'm wondering about.
ita, I just made a folder called "FFView" in my Applications folder, and dragged all the stuff into it. I doubt that the extra stuff is necessary, but I just left it there.
I put all my applications in the Applications folder, and just made an alias for the dock for things I run most often.