about go-oo

go-oo

If anyone has noticed that OpenOffice.org starts quicker on openSUSE than most other distros that is because they use go-oo, a specialised version of the program which is funded by Novell which includes a lot of interesting features. Go-oo is not really a fork of OpenOffice.org as most of the features are available in standard OpenOffice.org but it is just not built with them by default and while it has accepted some patches these are available to OpenOffice.org upstream.

Go-oo feels more polished than OpenOffice.org as it’s icons better fit into openSUSE’s color scheme. It also adds some amazing transitions to Impress and adds support for some other file formats such as Works, SVG and word perfect.

OpenGL Transitions in impress