Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-05-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Users shouldn't need to uninstall LibreOffice just like Windows users dont need to uninstall Microsoft Office to try OpenOffice. I thought this issue was solved. It is a packaging issue. So it varies from distribution to distribution. The official packages, last time

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-05-13 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 13 May 2014, at 08:04, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.comwrote: * An interesting academic study would be to evaluate the effect Google has had in popularizing open standard formats, like ODF, which for

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-05-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.comwrote: * An interesting academic study would be to evaluate the effect Google has had in popularizing open standard formats, like ODF, which for unconscionably long it referred to as openoffice format, as well as in

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-05-13 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 19.04.2014 01:53, Kay Schenk wrote: Ok, maybe the subject is bit melodramatic but after some of the twisted things we read about, basically how non-supportive either AOO is of Linux, or Linux is non-supportive of AOO, here's what I'm thinking. Hi, 2 reasons why someone like me may want

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-05-12 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/20/2014 11:53 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 20 Apr 2014, at 14:02, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: IMHO, most users just take what's provided by default. Unless it is too buggy. So I think that

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-05-12 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Users shouldn't need to uninstall LibreOffice just like Windows users dont need to uninstall Microsoft Office to try OpenOffice. I thought this issue was solved. On 4/21/14, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 03:35:15 -0700 Jose R R jose@metztli.com wrote: Niltze-

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-05-12 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 12/05/2014 20:53, Damjan Jovanovic a écrit : For Ubuntu, please register / log into Launchpad and visit https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1131253 where you can subscribe for notifications and select that the bug affects you too and thus generate a higher bug heat, hopefully persuading

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-05-12 Thread Jose R R
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Le 12/05/2014 20:53, Damjan Jovanovic a écrit : For Ubuntu, please register / log into Launchpad and visit https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1131253 where you can subscribe for notifications and select that

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-05-12 Thread Jose R R
On 4/21/14, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 03:35:15 -0700 Jose R R jose@metztli.com wrote: Niltze- On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Le 19/04/2014 01:53, Kay Schenk a écrit : Ok, maybe the subject is bit

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-26 Thread Mechtilde
Hello, Am 21.04.2014 12:42, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 03:35:15 -0700 Jose R R jose@metztli.com wrote: I have no experience with Debian as a distro, That is a problem of this discussion only with Debian derivatives such as Ubuntu. As far as I know, it is only

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-26 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 25/04/2014 19:07, Kay Schenk a écrit : I've created a wiki page to highlight some of the suggestions. PLEASE feel free to edit it as you see fit! At some point, we can link this in to an FAQ I guess -- https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Linux+@+Apache+OpenOffice Nicely

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-23 Thread Kay Schenk
On 04/23/2014 03:16 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 20/04/2014 Kay Schenk wrote: Many Linux distros maintain community repositories and perhaps its easiest to use that sort of mechanism for reintegration. Not to diminish this thread (on the contrary, there were a number of good messages,

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-21 Thread Mechtilde
Hello, Am 20.04.2014 21:41, schrieb Kay Schenk: On 04/20/2014 11:53 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 20 Apr 2014, at 14:02, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: ...well this is an interesting statement. Getting back to both this and Hagar's response. If we see that getting

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-21 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 03:35:15 -0700 Jose R R jose@metztli.com wrote: Niltze- On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Le 19/04/2014 01:53, Kay Schenk a écrit : Ok, maybe the subject is bit melodramatic but after some of the twisted things we

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-21 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 20/04/2014 20:53, Louis Suárez-Potts a écrit : But I believe that, however loudly we hear the cry of community, what really determines things for Ubuntu and Fedora is what the sponsoring corporation wants and thinks is in its best interests, or at least those of its financial backers.

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-21 Thread toki
On April 21, 2014 4:04:30 AM PDT, Detlef Nannen wrote: May be it is possible to serve a AOO-Package including a Startscript. Looking for the needed Version, asking for permission and running all this for a easy Installation. A Job for specialists, but possible? +1 I don't remember the program,

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-20 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 19/04/2014 01:53, Kay Schenk a écrit : Ok, maybe the subject is bit melodramatic but after some of the twisted things we read about, basically how non-supportive either AOO is of Linux, or Linux is non-supportive of AOO, here's what I'm thinking. 1) We do a blog whose main subject is AOO

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 20 Apr 2014, at 14:02, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: IMHO, most users just take what's provided by default. Unless it is too buggy. So I think that basically, we are back to the question: why AOO is still not available in the standard packages? There are several ways of

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-20 Thread Kay Schenk
On 04/20/2014 11:53 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 20 Apr 2014, at 14:02, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: IMHO, most users just take what's provided by default. Unless it is too buggy. So I think that basically, we are back to the question: why AOO is still not available in

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-20 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I agree there should be a more concerted efforts to add desktop specific features (not only distros). Meaning a better integration with KDE and Gnome notification system and others. Having libraries that can route messages to the Kdialog (from the libnotify library) and Gnome's Notifications. The

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Top post…. I propose that in addition to reaching out to distros we also look to enterprise installations; and that we also work closely (if possible) with the Linux Foundation. As to enterprise Linux distributions…. Besides RHEL, there is Univention's Univention Corporate Server. I mention

[DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

2014-04-18 Thread Kay Schenk
Ok, maybe the subject is bit melodramatic but after some of the twisted things we read about, basically how non-supportive either AOO is of Linux, or Linux is non-supportive of AOO, here's what I'm thinking. 1) We do a blog whose main subject is AOO and Linux and interview some of our Linux