RE: [tdf-discuss] Better defaults

2010-10-26 Thread Xi Embalsado
Can you make the defaults: - 1 inch margin around the document rather than .79 - Smoother dragging buttons for shapes and images - White fill in shapes rather than light blue - Can you change the color palette to a more streamlined set of colors. (Like GoogleDocs and MSO)?

Re: [tdf-discuss] Better defaults

2010-10-26 Thread Valter Mura
In data martedì 26 ottobre 2010 03:10:59, Marc Paré ha scritto: Le 2010-10-25 13:37, Roman Gelbort a écrit : El 25/10/10 04:38, Marc Paré escribió: I would suggest this as an extension and people could devise all sort of permutations of menus imaginable. That way, a user could pick from

[tdf-discuss] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc

2010-10-26 Thread goldfish
Hi, Please could we make LibreOffice load 'Writer', 'Math', 'Impress','Calc', 'Base', 'Draw' etc separately. In other words, can these separate entities be kept somewhat isolated so that the load is not too much and it will load faster when the program is started. Please let me know if I am

Re: [tdf-discuss] Who is Funding LibO?

2010-10-26 Thread Harold Fuchs
ian.ly...@theingots.org wrote in message news:50053.212.71.174.123.1288050361.squir...@www.theingots.org... Would someone please explain where the money is coming from to fund LibO? Where is it expected to come from in the future, assuming Oracle will not join? There are a few possibilities.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Who is Funding LibO?

2010-10-26 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Harold Fuchs wrote: Everyone, but possibly especially the user community, needs to be reassured as far as is possible that if they commit to LibreOffice they will be moving to a viable product and not just a flash in the pan which will die from lack of funds in six months or a year. For

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-26 Thread Gianluca Turconi
Thorsten Behrens wrote: hm, I guess most rules can be gamed, by any sufficiently determined adversary - so I would favour simple, effective bylaws, and use common sense otherwise. Additionally, you want to provide the proverbial Big Corp some incentive to join - note that this was one specific

[tdf-discuss] public steering committee phone conference

2010-10-26 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, tomorrow's Steering Committee phone conference is public, and open for everyone who is interested to join. All details are available at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Steering_Committee_Meetings Hear you tomorrow! Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org

RE: [tdf-discuss] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc

2010-10-26 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
They do load separately. What makes you think they don't? -Original Message- From: goldf...@aol.in [mailto:goldf...@aol.in] Sent: 26 October 2010 09:44 To: discuss@documentfoundation.org; market...@libreoffice.org Subject: [tdf-discuss] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc

Re: [tdf-discuss] Who is Funding LibO?

2010-10-26 Thread Gianluca Turconi
Marc Paré wrote: And the LibO project, as a community project, is not itself dependent on any funding support from anyone in particular. The community project should be able to stand on its own with membership involvement. Examples like the small contributions see on the website thread where

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-26 07:09, Gianluca Turconi a écrit : Thorsten Behrens wrote: hm, I guess most rules can be gamed, by any sufficiently determined adversary - so I would favour simple, effective bylaws, and use common sense otherwise. Additionally, you want to provide the proverbial Big Corp some

Re: [tdf-discuss] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc

2010-10-26 Thread todd rme
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2010-10-26 08:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit : They do load separately. What makes you think they don't? -Original Message- From: goldf...@aol.in [mailto:goldf...@aol.in] Sent: 26 October 2010 09:44 To:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc

2010-10-26 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi Todd, 2010/10/26 todd rme toddrme2...@gmail.com: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2010-10-26 08:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit : They do load separately. What makes you think they don't? -Original Message- From: goldf...@aol.in

Re: [tdf-discuss] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc

2010-10-26 Thread Mirek M.
Hi Todd, Sigrid, and others, 2010/10/26 Sigrid Carrera sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com Hi Todd, 2010/10/26 todd rme toddrme2...@gmail.com: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2010-10-26 08:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit : They do load separately.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Who is Funding LibO?

2010-10-26 Thread Gianluca Turconi
Marc Paré wrote: The LibO project is community driven, and its members are what makes it live. Well, Marc, I got this point very well in yours and others' messages. :) But I still see a lot of confusion in this list about the meaning of Community and Foundation. I'd like to add more

RE: [tdf-discuss] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc

2010-10-26 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
-Original Message- Hi Gordon: I think Paul is suggesting that the download be broken up this way and that each component be able to work on its own. Right now it is one big download. Not all of us have high speed and many still (as I am reminded quite often by our international

Re: [tdf-discuss] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc

2010-10-26 Thread todd rme
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Sigrid Carrera sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Todd, 2010/10/26 todd rme toddrme2...@gmail.com: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2010-10-26 08:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit : They do load separately. What

Re: [tdf-discuss] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc

2010-10-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-26 11:20, todd rme a écrit : On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Marc Parém...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2010-10-26 08:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit : They do load separately. What makes you think they don't? -Original Message- From: goldf...@aol.in

Re: [tdf-discuss] Suggestion: Separating Writer, Calc, Base, Draw etc

2010-10-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-26 12:27, RGB ES a écrit : One small problem with this idea: there is no such a thing as small components on LibO. Everything is shared. If you look at the installer package (for example, the rpm files for a Linux install), Writer, Draw, etc accounts for only a couple of megas, the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-26 Thread Sam
In other web forums in which I am active there is an option to display all questions to which there have been no replies. I find this useful as I tend to respond to simpler questions but over quite a wide range of topics, rather than answering complex questions in more specialised fields. The

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: PPC Mac, Solaris and windows x86_64 Releases

2010-10-26 Thread Carlo Strata
I think we could also think about these builds: - MacOSX 64 bit on both PPC and X86-64 platforms (I don't know if it exists a MacOSX PPC 64 bit OS...); - Windows 64 bit at least on x86-64 platform (IA64 one may not interest to people) All builds like those we could find for: - upcoming

Re: [tdf-discuss] Better defaults

2010-10-26 Thread AG
On 25/10/10 18:37, Roman Gelbort wrote: El 25/10/10 04:38, Marc Paré escribió: I would suggest this as an extension and people could devise all sort of permutations of menus imaginable. That way, a user could pick from a list that is more personal to them. How about a menu theme for Mad

Re: [tdf-discuss] Who is Funding LibO?

2010-10-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-26 12:31, Italo Vignoli a écrit : Gianluca Turconi wrote: A Foundation that collects funds and gathers contributions to further developing LibO, and steers the wider Community for that development, it's a reassuring idea. It's just like Mozilla. The Document Foundation was born

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - anduser support in general

2010-10-26 Thread AG
On 26/10/10 09:08, Harold Fuchs wrote: Sam i...@libreofficeforum.org wrote in message news:46a89a9c4e08ce31b40d5656d55e868e.squir...@libreofficeforum.org... Hi everyone, And hi Drew, thanks for adding LibreOfficeForum to the list. I could implement some of the features that todd rme

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-26 Thread AG
On 25/10/10 16:22, Andy Brown wrote: On Mon Oct 25 2010 07:53:37 GMT-0700 (PDT) Sam wrote: Hi everyone, And hi Drew, thanks for adding LibreOfficeForum to the list. I could implement some of the features that todd rme mentioned if anyone would find it useful. Drupal is very flexible for

Re: [tdf-discuss] Changed footer of listmails

2010-10-26 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 10/26/2010 1:31 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: Hi TDF enthusiasts, I changed the footer for mails of this list. As requested by several people I added a link to http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html leading to proven advice how to write mails that will reach a high chance to be read

Re: [tdf-discuss] Changed footer of listmails

2010-10-26 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi Barbara, *, Barbara Duprey schrieb: On 10/26/2010 1:31 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: Hi TDF enthusiasts, I changed the footer for mails of this list. [..] I'd prefer having a wiki page containing a short 3 step guide summarizing that tipps and link there. If somebody would set up one

Re: [tdf-discuss] Better defaults

2010-10-26 Thread Michel Gagnon
Le 2010-10-26 10:09, Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2010-10-26 09:17, Michel Gagnon a écrit : Other comments: - Hard spaces should be displayed -- or not -- according to the setting made with show hidden characters. Actually, I was pointed to this site yesterday. See if this is what you are

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version numbering in About LibreOffice

2010-10-26 Thread Michel Gagnon
Le 2010-10-26 10:24, Marc Paré a écrit : Le 2010-10-26 09:52, Robert Boehm a écrit : But yesmaybe it should say beta on the face of it On 10/26/2010 08:48 AM, Michel Gagnon wrote: Is it possible to write the version number in a way that is understandable by mere mortals? ...

Re: [tdf-discuss] Changed footer of listmails

2010-10-26 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 10/26/2010 4:18 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: Hi Barbara, *, Barbara Duprey schrieb: On 10/26/2010 1:31 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: Hi TDF enthusiasts, I changed the footer for mails of this list. [..] I'd prefer having a wiki page containing a short 3 step guide summarizing that

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-26 Thread Sam
Sam, Not Harold but have a question, is there a way to mark spam? Need to nip it in the bud. Andy Very true. I've been manually deleting it so far, but we need a collaborative method. I'm not sure if I should use a heuristic spam filter, or allow all users to flag as spam and have it be

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-26 Thread Andy Brown
On Tue Oct 26 2010 16:24:15 GMT-0700 (PDT) Sam wrote: Sam, Not Harold but have a question, is there a way to mark spam? Need to nip it in the bud. Andy Very true. I've been manually deleting it so far, but we need a collaborative method. I'm not sure if I should use a heuristic spam filter,

[tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - and user support in general

2010-10-26 Thread Sam
Hello everyone, These message threads are getting very...thready. :-) Sorry, I'm not very handy with mailing lists. There have been some requests for features and some nice suggestions for LibreOfficeForum.org. So here's a brief summary of the recent changes: 1. The entire site theme is new.