It’s about time. For years, OpenOffice.org used the X11 windowing system to create and run its graphical user interface. X11 may have been a good choice when OpenOffice.org’s primary role was to provide office applications in OSes, where X11 was a common windowing system. It also allowed the developers to more easily run the application on multiple computer systems; essentially any computer that could run an X11 windowing system could run OpenOffice.org. This included Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac, as well as others. But the down side to X11 is that it is not the native windowing system for most platforms. That means that users not only had to install X11, they also had to learn a new user interface that was markedly different than the native windowing system on their computers.

To put it bluntly, the older versions of OpenOffice.org that required the X11 windowing system would have earned a big fat one star rating from me. The applications worked well, but it makes no sense to force individuals to relearn basic window and mousing styles just to use an application. Writer also supports complex tables and graphics that you can use to produce compelling documents. To make it easier to create these documents, Writer can create individual frames that can hold text, graphics, tables, or other content. You can move the frames around your document or anchor them to a specific spot.

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Each frame can have its own attributes, such as size, border, and spacing. Frames allow you to create simple or complex layouts that move Writer beyond word processing and into the realm of desktop publishing.