Re: open office questions

2021-06-06 Thread F Campos Costero
If you truly mean the doc format and not docx, OpenOffice does read and write that. It reads docx but does not write it. There is no fee for OpenOffice, just download it from www.openoffice.org. I would recommend saving your documents in OpenOffice's native odt format and saving as doc only when

open office questions

2021-06-06 Thread grantcarrington
I am looking for a word processor that does not require being on the internet but that I can download into my computer (for a fee of course) that will accept DOC documents and that will create DOC documents. Thank you. --grant carrington

RE: Questions about the release notes

2020-11-11 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> -Original Message- > From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 10:56 AM > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Questions about the release notes > > 2. > > Who can say something about the entry "AOO

Re: Questions about the release notes

2020-11-11 Thread Marcus
Am 11.11.20 um 09:27 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: I started with a German translation of the release note, but I have the following questions: 1. Are there any new dictionaries? (The statements under "Improvements/Enhancements" and "Language Support" seem to be contrad

Questions about the release notes

2020-11-11 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, I started with a German translation of the release note, but I have the following questions: 1. Are there any new dictionaries? (The statements under "Improvements/Enhancements" and "Language Support" seem to be contradictory to each other). 2. Who can say somet

Re: A few questions about 4.1.6 for Release Notes

2018-11-19 Thread Jim Jagielski
For Linux, Java7, for macOS, Java6 > On Nov 15, 2018, at 6:15 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > On 11/14/2018 09:29 PM, Don Lewis wrote: >> On 15 Nov, Matthias Seidel wrote: >>> Hi Kay, >>> >>> Am 15.11.18 um 00:48 schrieb Kay Schenk: Two things -- * I see localization was set up for Kabyle.

Re: A few questions about 4.1.6 for Release Notes

2018-11-15 Thread Kay Schenk
On 11/14/2018 09:29 PM, Don Lewis wrote: On 15 Nov, Matthias Seidel wrote: Hi Kay, Am 15.11.18 um 00:48 schrieb Kay Schenk: Two things -- * I see localization was set up for Kabyle. So is this a new language addition? No, only locale data were added internally. * some discussion and

Re: A few questions about 4.1.6 for Release Notes

2018-11-14 Thread Don Lewis
On 15 Nov, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Kay, > > Am 15.11.18 um 00:48 schrieb Kay Schenk: >> Two things -- >> * I see localization was set up for Kabyle. So is this a new language >> addition? > > No, only locale data were added internally. > >> * some discussion and commits about Java 8, >>

Re: A few questions about 4.1.6 for Release Notes

2018-11-14 Thread Keith N. McKenna
the 4.1.6 branch near as I can tell. > So...does AOO require Java 8 now or can Java 7 still be used? > > I may have more questions coming in the next day or so, but hopefully not > many. I will make every attempt to get this ready by Fri afternoon, PST. > Kay I already removed the

Re: A few questions about 4.1.6 for Release Notes

2018-11-14 Thread Matthias Seidel
g.cgi?id=127876 > Changes were committed to the 4.1.6 branch near as I can tell. > So...does AOO require Java 8 now or can Java 7 still be used? Changes for Java 8 were revoked, but that did only affect the building process. Java 8 as well as Java 7 can still be used like before. > >

A few questions about 4.1.6 for Release Notes

2018-11-14 Thread Kay Schenk
Java 7 still be used? I may have more questions coming in the next day or so, but hopefully not many. I will make every attempt to get this ready by Fri afternoon, PST. -- -- MzK "Less is MORE."

Re: Subscribe to Questions and Answers

2018-09-24 Thread Tammy Curtis
ntact can be found here: > https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html > > If you wish to ask and answer user questions the most appropriate list is: > us...@openoffice.apache.org As Peter explained you are not required to > subscribe to this or any list, but if you do n

Re: Subscribe to Questions and Answers

2018-09-24 Thread Dave Barton
Hi Tammy, Just to expand a little on Peter's information: If you wish to take part in the project's activities (eg. coding, documentation, user support, etc.) the points of contact can be found here: https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html If you wish to ask and answer user questions

Re: Subscribe to Questions and Answers

2018-09-24 Thread Tammy Curtis
Thank you for your response. Tammy On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 12:12 AM Peter kovacs wrote: > Hi Tammy Curtis, > > You can simply send your questions to the List, there is no need in > subscribing in order to get some answers. But if you like to read our List > or want to participate

Re: Subscribe to Questions and Answers

2018-09-24 Thread Peter kovacs
Hi Tammy Curtis, You can simply send your questions to the List, there is no need in subscribing in order to get some answers. But if you like to read our List or want to participate you are welcome to subscribe. This is a public project. It is open to anyone. All the best Peter Am 23

Subscribe to Questions and Answers

2018-09-23 Thread Tammy Curtis
May I subscribe to get questions and answers? Sent from Mail for Windows 10

Re: Questions to update the 4.1.4 Release Notes

2017-09-12 Thread Matthias Seidel
Hi Keith, Am 10.09.2017 um 01:40 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: > I have been reviewing the Release Notes for the 4.1.4 Release and have a > couple of questions on the Known Issues section. > > 1. For developers: the source package of OpenOffice 4.1.4 will not build > on 32-bit ver

Re: Questions to update the 4.1.4 Release Notes

2017-09-10 Thread Matthias Seidel
Am 10.09.2017 um 01:40 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: > I have been reviewing the Release Notes for the 4.1.4 Release and have a > couple of questions on the Known Issues section. > > 1. For developers: the source package of OpenOffice 4.1.4 will not build > on 32-bit versions

Questions to update the 4.1.4 Release Notes

2017-09-09 Thread Keith N. McKenna
I have been reviewing the Release Notes for the 4.1.4 Release and have a couple of questions on the Known Issues section. 1. For developers: the source package of OpenOffice 4.1.4 will not build on 32-bit versions of Ubuntu 14.04 and similar distributions. The source fails to build in main/svl

Re: Questions about AOO Users

2016-11-26 Thread toki
On 24/11/16 08:29, RA Stehmann wrote: > distribute AOO, all figures are not really significant to identify the number > of users. Twould be much more appropriate to recommend software on the basis of the client's proposed use case, using examples of users with similar use-cases, that

Re: Questions about AOO Users

2016-11-24 Thread RA Stehmann
Hello, only a few remarks: Am 24.11.2016 um 07:02 schrieb toki: > On 23/11/16 22:10, Crystal wrote: . > >> 2.)Approximately how many users of OpenOffice are there worldwide? > > Being FLOSS, there is no way to know if one download represents one > user, or 40,000 users. Likewise, there is

Re: Questions about AOO Users

2016-11-23 Thread toki
On 23/11/16 22:10, Crystal wrote: > I will need an answer on or before 28-Nov-2016 Dropping a question like this the day before a _major_ holiday in the US, with an expected response before the first workday after that holiday, to ask specific questions about usage in the US is really

Questions about AOO Users

2016-11-23 Thread Buckneberg, Crystal R
Falls, SD USA) that is comparing MS Office, OpenOffice and LibreOffice and then making a recommendation to a client on which one to use. I have a few questions that will help me to pull this document together if you have a few minutes of time. I will need an answer on or before 28-Nov-2016 so I

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-28 Thread Gav
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:10 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 08/28/2016 10:52 AM, Don Lewis wrote: > > On 28 Aug, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 08/27/2016 06:22 PM, Gav wrote: > >>> Hi. > >>> > >>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Don Lewis >

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-28 Thread Kay Schenk
On 08/28/2016 10:52 AM, Don Lewis wrote: > On 28 Aug, Kay Schenk wrote: >> >> >> On 08/27/2016 06:22 PM, Gav wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Don Lewis wrote: >>> On 28 Aug, Gav wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Don Lewis

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-28 Thread Don Lewis
On 28 Aug, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 08/27/2016 06:22 PM, Gav wrote: >> Hi. >> >> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Don Lewis wrote: >> >>> On 28 Aug, Gav wrote: On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Don Lewis wrote: > On 28 Aug, Gav

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-27 Thread Gav
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Don Lewis wrote: > On 28 Aug, Gav wrote: > > Hi Don, > > > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Don Lewis wrote: > > > >> On 28 Aug, Gav wrote: > >> > junit 4.11 is installed on the new buildbots we are prepping for use

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-27 Thread Don Lewis
On 28 Aug, Gav wrote: > Hi Don, > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Don Lewis wrote: > >> On 28 Aug, Gav wrote: >> > junit 4.11 is installed on the new buildbots we are prepping for use fwiw >> >> We'll also need hamcrest version 1.3. >> > > Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-27 Thread Gav
Hi Don, On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Don Lewis wrote: > On 28 Aug, Gav wrote: > > junit 4.11 is installed on the new buildbots we are prepping for use fwiw > > We'll also need hamcrest version 1.3. > Ubuntu 14.04 LTS python-hamcrest is version 1.8 , is that too new?

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-27 Thread Don Lewis
On 28 Aug, Gav wrote: > junit 4.11 is installed on the new buildbots we are prepping for use fwiw We'll also need hamcrest version 1.3. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands,

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-27 Thread Gav
junit 4.11 is installed on the new buildbots we are prepping for use fwiw Gav... On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 08/26/2016 04:22 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Kay Schenk wrote: > >> Do you really mean 16.04 LTS? Is there a buildbot setup with

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-26 Thread Kay Schenk
On 08/26/2016 04:22 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Kay Schenk wrote: >> Do you really mean 16.04 LTS? Is there a buildbot setup with this? I >> am NOT >> a Ubuntu person. > > Yes, I did mean 16.04 LTS. But I see that end of life for 14.04 > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases is April 2019, so 5

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: Do you really mean 16.04 LTS? Is there a buildbot setup with this? I am NOT a Ubuntu person. Yes, I did mean 16.04 LTS. But I see that end of life for 14.04 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases is April 2019, so 5 years and not 3 as it was for earlier Ubuntu LTS versions. This

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-25 Thread Kay Schenk
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 24/08/2016 Kay Schenk wrote: > >> Continuing discussion with infra due to EOL on both the systems we are >> currently using indicates we will probably be moving to Ubuntu 14.04 >> buildbots for Linux 32 and Linux

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/08/2016 Kay Schenk wrote: Continuing discussion with infra due to EOL on both the systems we are currently using indicates we will probably be moving to Ubuntu 14.04 buildbots for Linux 32 and Linux 64. I'll keep you updated. For the same reason, wouldn't it be better to move to 16.04

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-24 Thread Kay Schenk
ion with pono from infra > > > Forwarded Message > Subject: Re: Questions about buildbot internals > Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:31:45 -0700 > From: Kay sch...@apache.org <ksch...@apache.org> > Reply-To: ksch...@apache.org > To: Pon

Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-23 Thread Kay sch...@apache.org
FYI: communication with pono from infra Forwarded Message Subject:Re: Questions about buildbot internals Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:31:45 -0700 From: Kay sch...@apache.org <ksch...@apache.org> Reply-To: ksch...@apache.org To: Pono Takamori <p...@a

Re: [QUESTIONS] RE: [ISSUE DISCUSSIONS]

2016-01-01 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 23/11/2015 01:06, Dennis E. Hamilton a écrit : I also have a moderate concern that the Forum community is perhaps too separate from the rest of the project and we need a way for all voices to be heard, including working out proposals for remedies. In both directions. Any ideas on how to

[QUESTIONS] Assessing Project Risk Warning Signs

2015-12-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[BCC Apache OpenOffice PMC] It is important for the OpenOffice PMC to identify and assess warning signs about risks to the project's continuing operation. It is also important that the state of the project be shared with and understood by the full Apache OpenOffice community. There is much

Re: [QUESTIONS] RE: [ISSUE DISCUSSIONS]

2015-11-22 Thread Rory O'Farrell
lla is adequate for bug fixing, but is not the best forum for enhancement proposals. Rory > > I am very interested in seeing coupling of dev@, users@, Bugzilla, and the > forums in a way where issues can be addressed and possibly resolved after > confirmation of understanding.

Re: [QUESTIONS] How Is Apache OpenOffice Used - Instrumentation

2015-11-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I am not certain that we have the resources to do that. So this is a thought-experiment. It is a thought-experiment, but it is code we (probably) already have. Just, we've now disabled the usage tracking, which was existing (always opt-in, never silently enabled

RE: [QUESTIONS] RE: [ISSUE DISCUSSIONS]

2015-11-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] > Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2015 14:34 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [QUESTIONS] RE: [ISSUE DISCUSSIONS] > > On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 09:29:07 -0800 > "Dennis E. Hamilton" &

[QUESTIONS] How Is Apache OpenOffice Used (was Apache OpenOffice ODF in the Marketplace ...)

2015-11-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
can arise in questions to lists dev@ and users@, in filing of Bugzilla reports (or commenting on existing ones), and in comments on the Community Forums. We can use those to determine more narrowly on what users on what platforms are reporting and what they are reporting about. This provides eviden

RE: [QUESTIONS] How Is Apache OpenOffice Used - Instrumentation

2015-11-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
ata is collected, the identifier is used in making the cryptographic hash in (2) and then discarded. > -Original Message- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org] > Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2015 11:50 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: [QUESTIONS] How Is Apac

[QUESTIONS] RE: [ISSUE DISCUSSIONS]

2015-11-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
in seeing coupling of dev@, users@, Bugzilla, and the forums in a way where issues can be addressed and possibly resolved after confirmation of understanding. I have questions. 1. Where is it established that the Forum is the preferred place for this, sort of out-of-site of the other three pl

Re: QUESTIONS RE: Maintenance of AOO Wiki and Forum

2015-08-18 Thread jan i
On 17 August 2015 at 23:23, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: Thanks Tony, this reminds me of some questions that would help us understand what is involved. These questions are anyone knowledgable of the current arrangements: I see four levels of support to wikis and forums: 1

Re: QUESTIONS RE: Maintenance of AOO Wiki and Forum

2015-08-17 Thread Tony Stevenson
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 02:23:48PM -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Thanks Tony, this reminds me of some questions that would help us understand what is involved. These questions are anyone knowledgable of the current arrangements: I see four levels of support to wikis and forums: 1

RE: QUESTIONS RE: Maintenance of AOO Wiki and Forum

2015-08-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
, August 17, 2015 14:42 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; orc...@apache.org Subject: Re: QUESTIONS RE: Maintenance of AOO Wiki and Forum On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 02:23:48PM -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Thanks Tony, this reminds me of some questions that would help us understand what is involved

QUESTIONS RE: Maintenance of AOO Wiki and Forum

2015-08-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Thanks Tony, this reminds me of some questions that would help us understand what is involved. These questions are anyone knowledgable of the current arrangements: I see four levels of support to wikis and forums: 1. User Account and Content Administration I believe this is handed. Does

Build OO from Source Code: Build Requirement Version and Repository Questions

2015-06-21 Thread Jason Marshall
experienced a similar issue with 3.5 SP1? Thank you for your patience and please accept my apologies if I have asked questions that have obvious answers to those with experience of the project. Best regards Jason Marshall

Re: Build OO from Source Code: Build Requirement Version and Repository Questions

2015-06-21 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Jason, Jason Marshall schrieb: Hello I have reached a relatively advanced stage of the building process and have been saving some queries in order to put these into a single e-mail, with an awareness that this is a busy mailing list, so hopefully not taking up too much of people's time.

Questions

2015-05-23 Thread Dave Bridges
None of the free support sites tell you how to ask a question. My questions are: 1. How do I ask a question about Open Office; and 2. When one has two workbooks open does Open Office have a commend such as the Excel arrange so that you can view both simultaneously? Kind regards DAVE BRIDGES

Re: Questions

2015-05-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
questions are: 1. How do I ask a question about Open Office; and 2. When one has two workbooks open does Open Office have a commend such as the Excel arrange so that you can view both simultaneously? Kind regards DAVE BRIDGES -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor 882C 4389

Re: Questions

2015-05-23 Thread Dave Barton
a question. My questions are: 1. How do I ask a question about Open Office; and 2. When one has two workbooks open does Open Office have a commend such as the Excel arrange so that you can view both simultaneously? Kind regards DAVE BRIDGES I recomend using forum.openoffice.org For your

Re: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32) - BASE Questions

2015-01-22 Thread Kay Schenk
from November 2011 though. I have three questions: 1. What happened with regard to the improvements with regard to the version of HSQLDB used? We're still using the base of hsqldb 1.8 with patches for use with java 7. See: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121754 There had been

Re: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32) - BASE Questions

2015-01-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/01/2015 Kay Schenk wrote: On 01/22/2015 09:42 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: 1. What happened with regard to the improvements with regard to the version of HSQLDB used? We're still using the base of hsqldb 1.8 with patches for use with java 7. See:

RE: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32) - BASE Questions

2015-01-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
) is that the default embedded database produced by OpenOffice Base is HSQLDB, which is 100% Java-required. According to the HSQLDB site, there was collaboration on upgrading the version of HSQLDB, http://hsqldb.org/web/openoffice.html. That's from November 2011 though. I have three questions: 1

Questions about code reviews and static analysis tools for TU Delft research

2014-12-17 Thread Radjino Bholanath
. Therefore, I would be very happy to know a little bit more about how code reviews are used in OpenOffice and if (and maybe how) static analysis tools are used. I have a couple of questions for anyone willing to answer: 1. Do all developers (contributors and core developers) have to submit a code

a few questions about FOSS and OpenOffice

2014-10-27 Thread Antonio Cepero
with a free software project collaborator. I am contacting you because I am an OpenOffice user and think it is a very interesting project. I would like to know if some OpenOffice collaborator would be kind enough to answer the questions found below. I shall be pleased to receive your answers

Re: a few questions about FOSS and OpenOffice

2014-10-27 Thread Alexandro Colorado
user and think it is a very interesting project. I would like to know if some OpenOffice collaborator would be kind enough to answer the questions found below. I shall be pleased to receive your answers but if you do not want to, I would also appreciate to know it. Yours sincerely, Antonio Cepero

linux desktop integration questions

2014-09-09 Thread Kay Schenk
experience integration problems. Does anyone know -- maybe from user list or forum questions -- how often the mandriva and redhat menus are used/installed? The freedesktop menus work for both KDE4 and Gnome (2 and above?) Some debian-based users are now using Gnome and KDE4 desktop environments

Questions

2014-08-18 Thread trek752
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Re: Questions

2014-08-18 Thread Dave Barton
trek...@aol.com wrote: This email is written in HTML format. Please enable HTML mode to view this email. Here is the OP's moderated email in plain text: I have open office on my computer and this only started today. Every time I try to open a file - it brings up Filter selection and everyone

Feature request, questions. Send documents as html e-mail.

2014-07-10 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I wonder how involved would be to set a feature to send documents as HTML Emails. (not attachments). I look at this code: http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org/source/xref/aoo-trunk/main/sfx2/source/dialog/mailmodel.cxx#344 I would need to understand the whole branch better. But if possible there

Re: questions about crash reporting, error report tool

2014-06-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/05/2014 Kay Schenk wrote: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/CrashReporting is no longer a default in our binaries? Is this correct? Correct. Is this the same thing that's called the Error Report Tool in the application help? It is. The last discussion I could find about this:

Re: questions about crash reporting, error report tool

2014-06-28 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 27/05/2014 Kay Schenk wrote: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/CrashReporting is no longer a default in our binaries? Is this correct? Correct. Is this the same thing that's called the Error Report Tool in

questions about crash reporting, error report tool

2014-05-26 Thread Kay Schenk
Looking at current configure options, and what we've setup on buildbots, it seems the Crash Reporter referenced in this wiki page: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/CrashReporting is no longer a default in our binaries? Is this correct? Is this the same thing that's called the Error Report Tool

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2 Top Questions: Now for the answers....

2014-03-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/02/2014 Rob Weir wrote: Time to wrap this up. I've gone through the 275 questions from 430 users and picked out the top ones. I don't see very interesting questions in this top 10. Indeed, some are misplaced and some can only be answered in a generic way. I'm commenting on some

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2 Top Questions: Now for the answers....

2014-03-23 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.orgwrote: On 27/02/2014 Rob Weir wrote: Time to wrap this up. I've gone through the 275 questions from 430 users and picked out the top ones. I don't see very interesting questions in this top 10. Indeed, some

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2 Top Questions: Now for the answers....

2014-03-23 Thread Toki
On 2/28/2014 8:13 AM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: * The presence of templates that are not Gratis; * The presence of templates that are not Libre; * Some of the vocabulary used by SourceForge; Not sure I understand this, can you please clarify? I'd be happy to change what could be a

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2 Top Questions: Now for the answers....

2014-03-08 Thread Kay Schenk
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Time to wrap this up. I've gone through the 275 questions from 430 users and picked out the top ones. I dropped the ones that repeated questions we already answered in our last iteration of this. I also combined

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2 Top Questions: Now for the answers....

2014-02-28 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 2/27/14 11:54 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 02/27/2014 11:00 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk: On 02/27/2014 10:02 AM, Rob Weir wrote: Time to wrap this up. I've gone through the 275 questions from 430 users and picked out the top ones. I dropped the ones that repeated questions we already answered

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2 Top Questions: Now for the answers....

2014-02-28 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 27.02.2014 23:54, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 02/27/2014 11:00 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk: On 02/27/2014 10:02 AM, Rob Weir wrote: Time to wrap this up. I've gone through the 275 questions from 430 users and picked out the top ones. I dropped the ones that repeated questions we already

Ask OpenOffice #2 Top Questions: Now for the answers....

2014-02-27 Thread Rob Weir
Time to wrap this up. I've gone through the 275 questions from 430 users and picked out the top ones. I dropped the ones that repeated questions we already answered in our last iteration of this. I also combined questions where there were duplicates or repetitions. In some cases I reworded

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2 Top Questions: Now for the answers....

2014-02-27 Thread Kay Schenk
On 02/27/2014 10:02 AM, Rob Weir wrote: Time to wrap this up. I've gone through the 275 questions from 430 users and picked out the top ones. I dropped the ones that repeated questions we already answered in our last iteration of this. I also combined questions where there were duplicates

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2 Top Questions: Now for the answers....

2014-02-27 Thread Armin Le Grand
On 27.02.2014 15:00, Kay Schenk wrote: --- 2) A series of questions on proposed features and how we decide on new features, including: a) Is it possible to include a 'Track Change' feature in OpenOffice like the one in MS Word? b) When will OpenOffice

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2 Top Questions: Now for the answers....

2014-02-27 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 02/27/2014 11:00 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk: On 02/27/2014 10:02 AM, Rob Weir wrote: Time to wrap this up. I've gone through the 275 questions from 430 users and picked out the top ones. I dropped the ones that repeated questions we already answered in our last iteration of this. I also

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2 Top Questions: Now for the answers....

2014-02-27 Thread Jonathon
On February 27, 2014 2:54:26 PM PST, Marcus (OOo) wrote: 8) Does it cost anything to upload a template online? Rob: No. Odd that this questions got so many votes. Any ideas on why this is a question? Marcus: No, absolutely not. There is nothing on the Sourceforge hosted webpages

Re: Ask OpenOffice #2 Top Questions: Now for the answers....

2014-02-27 Thread Dave Fisher
On Feb 27, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Armin Le Grand wrote: On 27.02.2014 15:00, Kay Schenk wrote: --- 2) A series of questions on proposed features and how we decide on new features, including: a) Is it possible to include a 'Track Change' feature

Re: Should we do another your top questions answered blog?

2014-01-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Last year at this time we did this post: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/your_top_questions_answered I thought it worked well. Should we do another? Maybe with the restriction that it does not repeat questions from

Re: Should we do another your top questions answered blog?

2014-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/01/2014 Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/your_top_questions_answered ... Should we do another? Maybe with the restriction that it does not repeat questions from the 2013 version? It was interesting. It would be good to repeat. And restricting it to unanswered

Re: Should we do another your top questions answered blog?

2014-01-06 Thread Vladislav Stevanovic
Should we do another? Maybe with the restriction that it does not repeat questions from the 2013 version? +1 regards, wlada 2014/1/6 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org On 05/01/2014 Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/your_top_questions_answered ... Should we do another

Should we do another your top questions answered blog?

2014-01-05 Thread Rob Weir
Last year at this time we did this post: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/your_top_questions_answered I thought it worked well. Should we do another? Maybe with the restriction that it does not repeat questions from the 2013 version? I'd volunteer to solicit for questions and edit the blog

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-06 Thread Marcus (OOo)
? Maybe if we said something like, For the fastest and most expert response, post your question to? Make the forums sound like the most attractive option. We know they are the best place for questions, of course. But we ought to describe it equally attractively. Yes, that could maybe work

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-06 Thread Andrew Rist
? Maybe if we said something like, For the fastest and most expert response, post your question to? Make the forums sound like the most attractive option. We know they are the best place for questions, of course. But we ought to describe it equally attractively. -Rob Perhaps

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-06 Thread Kay Schenk
. Maybe the problem is we are not making the support forums sound attractive enough? Maybe if we said something like, For the fastest and most expert response, post your question to? Make the forums sound like the most attractive option. We know they are the best place for questions, of course

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-06 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 06/09/2013 22:37, Andrew Rist a écrit : Perhaps this is a situation of people who are more comfortable with email as a tool as opposed to a forum. If you are not familiar with forums in general, our forum can be pretty daunting to navigate - there's a lot of info there. Do we have a way

User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-05 Thread sebb
The dev list sees the occasional thread which IMO really belongs on the user list/forum Although it is convenient for the poster to have the question answered on the dev list, I wonder if that is the best approach overall. The disadvantages of not referring the poster to the user list are

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-05 Thread Rob Weir
Just a thought. This is all true. We also get user questions to the private mailing list, and via the press alias address. And we also get product support questions to the Bugzilla admin alias and the ezmlm admin alias. But I don't think we actively encourage users to post questions to do

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-05 Thread sebb
On 5 September 2013 12:15, Peter Junge peter.ju...@gmx.org wrote: On 9/5/2013 5:24 PM, sebb wrote: The dev list sees the occasional thread which IMO really belongs on the user list/forum Although it is convenient for the poster to have the question answered on the dev list, I wonder if that

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-05 Thread sebb
the user list/forum where there are lots more potential responders Just a thought. This is all true. We also get user questions to the private mailing list, and via the press alias address. And we also get product support questions to the Bugzilla admin alias and the ezmlm admin alias. But I

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
with (users who are often unfamiliar with mailing lists) I think that we should continue to moderate messages and replying, but add to the reply something like: Please note that this mailing list is not the right place for user support. Further questions should be sent to the user support

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-05 Thread Hagar Delest
is not the right place for user support. Further questions should be sent to the user support channels: http://www.openoffice.org/support/ +1. Often in such case, I add a note in the message, replying to the user list and moving the dev address from To to CC. But for the moment I havent seen many topics

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-05 Thread sebb
is cluttered with the off-topic threads - the poster may continue to use the dev list rather than the user list/forum where there are lots more potential responders Just a thought. This is all true. We also get user questions to the private mailing list, and via the press alias address

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-05 Thread Kay Schenk
the dev list rather than the user list/forum where there are lots more potential responders Just a thought. This is all true. We also get user questions to the private mailing list, and via the press alias address. And we also get product support questions to the Bugzilla admin

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-05 Thread Kay Schenk
threads - the poster may continue to use the dev list rather than the user list/forum where there are lots more potential responders Just a thought. This is all true. We also get user questions to the private mailing list, and via the press alias address. And we also get product

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-05 Thread Dave Fisher
user questions to the private mailing list, and via the press alias address. And we also get product support questions to the Bugzilla admin alias and the ezmlm admin alias. But I don't think we actively encourage users to post questions to do these things. But it is a puzzle why this happens

Re: Help needed! questions and confusion about partial build information

2013-05-22 Thread Andre Fischer
/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO#Partial_Builds This is the information from the old Tools information: [2a] http://www.openoffice.org/tools/build_env_tools.html [2b] http://www.openoffice.org/tools/tools/build.html I actually used the build --all:prjname for what I was doing... So my questions. I don't

Re: Help needed! questions and confusion about partial build information

2013-05-22 Thread janI
/build_env_tools.htmlhttp://www.openoffice.org/tools/build_env_tools.html [2b] http://www.openoffice.org/**tools/tools/build.htmlhttp://www.openoffice.org/tools/tools/build.html I actually used the build --all:prjname for what I was doing... So my questions. I don't know if new developers should

Re: Help needed! questions and confusion about partial build information

2013-05-22 Thread Kay Schenk
/build_env_tools.htmlhttp://www.openoffice.org/tools/build_env_tools.html [2b] http://www.openoffice.org/**tools/tools/build.htmlhttp://www.openoffice.org/tools/tools/build.html I actually used the build --all:prjname for what I was doing... So my questions. I don't know if new developers

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