Re: this is another request for help regarding gnome/gnumeric

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:29:58AM +1000, Rosemary Gibson wrote:
> I would appreciate some clarification on different things i have read 
>
> 1.    Gnumeric is a free spreadsheet program that is part of the
> GNOME desktop and has Windows installers available. Could you
> explain to me what has windows installers available  means.

a) There is a version of gnumeric that runs (with some known
    printing problems) under current versions of MS Windows.
b) There are downloadable executables (.exe) that will install (1)
    See www.gnumeric.org for details.
 
> 2.    The operating systems the office suites were designed to run on without emulation;
> For Windows this response was partial. 
> Partial: indicates that while the office suite works, it lacks important functionality compared to versions 
> for other OSs; it is still being developed however.  

My best guess would be the print preview problem that is windows
specific.  The only other major outstanding windows bug report is
that context sensitive help is not properly connected.

> 3.    Even though gnome/gnumeric runs on all platforms what is the
> minimum OS Requirements/Specifications.
>
> I am running Windows XP SP1  

Gnumeric is not directly tied to a minimum version of windows.
However, it depends on Gtk+, which has issues on win95 and older.
 
Hope that helps
    Jody