Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-11-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Andrea Pescetti a écrit : Honestly, I believe new developers joined because the bar for contribution was lowered ... the paperwork reduction may have helped too, but I don't see it as the most effective improvement. The paperwork was only a practical detail: not

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Compiling in Windows

2010-11-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
plino wrote: One of the bugs I reported (which is now obsolete, but still there) caused that a user would loose data ... And the bug has been ignored since then (this was in November 25th 2009) Could you provide the OpenOffice.org issue number? Honestly I can't understand how you can state

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-11-01 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi Andrea, ( just to mention: I did not make my mind on this yet, I'm just providing some thoughts) Von: Andrea Pescetti pesce...@openoffice.org An: discuss@documentfoundation.org The paperwork was only a practical detail: not relinquising your copyright is the most important. I

Re: [tdf-discuss] Better defaults

2010-11-01 Thread Inge Wallin
On Wednesday, October 27, 2010 23:02:43 Andras Timar wrote: 2010.10.26. 9:06 keltezéssel, Xi Embalsado írta: Can you make the defaults: - White fill in shapes rather than light blue I was thinking of LibreOffice Green instead of Blue 8... What do you think? This is easy to change. This

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-11-01 Thread Giuseppe Castagno
Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hello BRM, Le Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:12:59 -0700 (PDT), BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com a écrit : - Original Message From: Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org 4) the notion that we cannot change license because we don't have copyright assignment

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-11-01 Thread Harri Pitkänen
Hi! On Monday 01 November 2010, Andre Schnabel wrote: If we want an answer on this (would developers not have joined if there was a CA) we would need to ask them. This should indeed be asked at the dev-list. I'd bet, that at least some of them would state that they not would have joined. I

Re: [tdf-discuss] Non-removable extensions

2010-11-01 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:44:31 -0700, Andy Brown wrote: Who had the bright idea to require the non-removable extensions in LibreOffice? This, IMO, is totally uncalled for. This is a great way to lose users. While I agree that there should be no non-removable extensions by default, the tone

[tdf-discuss] Re: Compiling in Windows

2010-11-01 Thread plino
Issue 107217 It is obsolete because it referred to a problem concerning the number of lines in a spreadsheet which has been increased since then (the current version supports 2^20 lines instead of the traditional 2^16) It is ignored because it is not closed. Maybe it could still be fixed to

Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-11-01 Thread RGB ES
2010/11/1 Johannes Bausch johannes.bau...@gmail.com: Hey, Here's what I think the whole style and document setup should look like. It's done very quickly in Inkscape, so don't expect anything spectacular. Still, I hope you get the general idea.

Re: [steering-discuss] Version numbering of LibO

2010-11-01 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Sebastian, Sebastian Spaeth wrote on 2010-11-01 16.36: Dear all, all discussions seem to hint at that the first stable release of LibreOffice is going to be a 3.3.0 release. I would like to have you consider a different version for the following reasons: - LO 3.3.0 suggests it is equivalent

Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-11-01 Thread jonathon
On 10/31/2010 12:11 AM, Michel Gagnon wrote: or, to put it clearly, styles OF tables. FWIW, I fake that by creating a set of styles just for tables, and a master table. Whenever I need a table, I simply copy the master table. I have been reminded it already exists (thanks Marc). Better

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Compiling in Windows

2010-11-01 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 04:09 -0700, plino wrote: In the spirit of Open Source it doesn't make any sense that a closed source compiler is used. I agree - at least; it should be possible to compile with MINGW, and we're working on that. The big stumbling block, which is also a

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-11-01 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andrea, On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 23:56 +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: I haven't seen any new contributor write that they joined because of (the refusal of) a copyright agreement; while I have seen several new contributors write that they started contributing because the Easy Hacks were so

[tdf-discuss] Re: Compiling in Windows

2010-11-01 Thread plino
Hi Really - this discussion belongs on the developer list; and the person who needs to be contributing is the one complaining :-) so - I greatly welcome your contribution here: there is a lot to do, but it is quite do-able, and I (and Fridrich + Jesus) would be happy to mentor anyone

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Non-removable extensions

2010-11-01 Thread Michel Gagnon
Le 2010-11-01 07:34, Michael Meeks a écrit : Hi there, On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 17:53 -0400, Michel Gagnon wrote: however I cannot modify my installation to remove the PDF Import and Persenter Console. So - there are lots of parts of LibreOffice that cannot be removed easily; such as the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-11-01 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com On 2010-10-31 6:56 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Now, without copyright assignment/agreement (granted by the LibreOffice developers to the Document Foundation), the Document Foundation will be in the awkward

Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-11-01 Thread jonathon
On 10/30/2010 08:55 PM, Robert Well, I guess I have now run afoul of the asked for a feature that was already there thing. The central issue here is that the obvious documentation doesn't cover all of the nooks and crannies. we probably should have a copy of a users manual that is part of

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO document format: strict ODF or extended ODF?

2010-11-01 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Gianluca Turconi wrote: IMO, it isn't only a question about better defaults, but a real turning point for LibO. I'll try to clarify my point of view. Let's say that by the time ODF 1.2 will be out, every feature currently supported from LibO will be in ODF specification too. That would