@The_Assimilator said:
And this is why all OSS projects that don't hire at least one usability expert (I'm looking at YOU, KDE/Gnome) are doomed to extinction.
OOO and any derivatives of it are (most regrettably) built on Java, so they don't have access to native widgets - only Sun's shitty and buggy re-invention of said widgets. I'm guessing the NeoOffice guys finally got the correct text selection colour in their widgets, which is probably a huge milestone for the 1 guy who actually cares about the project. And the irony of OOO competing against itself for a few percentage points of marketshare... that's just sad.
No, no, no!
OOO - and its derivatives - are _not_ Java based... (except some completely optional modules, like BeanShell integration....). OOO is (an admittedly huge) C/C++ project, with a modular UI layer, which in fact does use native widgets. (If you'd say that the way it uses these widgets is absolutely crappy, then i'd agree with you :) )
Trivia: on Linux you can actually choose whether the software uses GTK+ or QT natively: set the OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP environment variable to gnome, or KDE, and you get the respective gui toolkit.