The message 20051124145241.GI60741@amnesiac.heapspace.net from Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk contains these words:
*SIGH* - personally, I have no desktop, but then I run ion3, I don't have floating windows (except gimp, and that lives on a floating workspace, which is only created when I need it). I don't follow why people have become pointy clicky beasts, it's giving less control, and more frustration if anything goes wrong (had to deal with openoffice the other day, that frustrated the hell out of me, gimme LaTeX any day).
OpenOffice is pretty good in many ways, but is not exactly intuitive, and AFAICT some features are either missing (line-spacing) or can't be transferred to the toolbar (superscript/subscript).
Perhaps mine is a bit elderly...