I read a lot more documents than I produce, especially Word documents and powerpoints. I’d estimate I might write one new document for each 25 I read, at best. Thus I need a good viewer much more than I need an editor.
An editor interface is filled with clutter that’s useless for reading. For reading a much more optimized user interface would be very welcome. See, for example, evince which is pretty nice already.
…but it can’t handle Word documents 
On the bright side there seems to be Powerpoint support for Evince coming along. I haven’t had the time to test run it, but I like the sound of it 
In the meantime I’ll just use OpenOffice.org, especially the 2.0 series has been pretty good in handling all the files I’ve thrown at it so far. And with this little hack I can get all documents open for reading by default:
perl -pi -e 's,1\.9 -,1.9 -view -, if /^Exec/' /opt/openoffice.org1.9.104/share/xdg/*.desktop
It’s still bloated and not fully optimized for reading, but still better than the editing mode.
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