Re: [board-discuss] LibreOffice no longer in Apple store ?

2023-01-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Thanks Sophie ! Le 13/01/2023 à 11:58, sophi a écrit : You don't see it currently because their is a special request for France that we have to comply with first (ANSSI certificate). Once this done, you'll be able to see it :) Christian provided a direct link, but we don't know if it will

Re: [board-discuss] Report about numbers from Apple App Store

2022-11-22 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Andreas, Perhaps I'm missing something, but why would the board have these figures, unless the private company distributing the product agreed to provide them, or was under some contractual obligation to do so? Just trying to understand exactly what it is you're trying to say, or prove, as

Re: [board-discuss] Re: "Documents Pro - Write & Edit" & others on Mac AppStore

2022-09-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
vant licence and source code. > >We have already issued take down notices in the past so we will keep >the >situation monitored and act accordingly. > >Please feel free to forward to me links to other examples so that we >can >complete our list of action items. > >Ciao &

[board-discuss] Re: "Documents Pro - Write & Edit" & others on Mac AppStore

2022-09-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
hases GO Office 2021 (Xiaoqin Chen / HNBSoft Team) - 9,99 € DOC Mate:for MS Office (Cynoble Technology Limited) Alex Le 08/09/2022 à 10:15, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Hi everyone, I just wanted to draw the Board's attention to the existence of the products "Documents Pro

[board-discuss] Documents Pro - Write & Edit on Mac AppStore

2022-09-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi everyone, I just wanted to draw the Board's attention to the existence of the products "Documents Pro - Write & Edit" and "Office PDF Suite - for Word, Spreadsheet, Slides & Adobe PDF Docs Editor" These products are being sold respectively for 14,99 € and 39,99 € on the AppStore, which

Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] TDF to change statutes following a Federal Court of Justice decision

2022-07-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Thanks Thorsten  Alex Le mer. 13 juil. 2022 à 23:41, Thorsten Behrens a écrit : > Hi Alex, > > Alexander Thurgood wrote: > > Did I misread, or isn't the impugned clause (“Der Vorstand ist in seiner > > Vertretungsmacht durch den Zweck der Stiftung beschrän

Re: [board-discuss] [DECISION] TDF to change statutes following a Federal Court of Justice decision

2022-07-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Florian, Interesting decision by the BGH. Did I misread, or isn't the impugned clause (“Der Vorstand ist in seiner Vertretungsmacht durch den Zweck der Stiftung beschränkt.”) still present in the amended version ? If so, how is that now different to the previous situation (other than

Re: [board-discuss] Open letter for revive LOOL, add your +1 if you agree

2022-07-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
My ha'penneth below. Surely, the point of TDF is/was to foster community driven contributions by all ? If a languishing codebase was already there, and people are now prepared to update it and have a go at making something of it, shouldn't TDF be seen to be supporting such an initiative ?

Re: [board-discuss] Collabora Productivity from AppStore - bug reports

2022-06-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
It is neither a question of overblowing or "paranoia", (thanks for the gratuitous comment by the way, in tdf#147130), but I raised the issue as to where bugs for Collabora should be reported when it was first released via the AppStore and was told, multiple times, and no less by Michael

Re: [board-discuss] Collabora Productivity from AppStore - bug reports

2022-06-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
to retain volunteers like myself, quite the contrary. In fact, had I been of a less phlegmatic disposition, I would have told you all where to go, in no uncertain terms. Alex Le 14/06/2022 à 21:58, sophi a écrit : Hi Alex, Le 14/06/2022 à 09:52, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Hello to all

Re: [board-discuss] Collabora Productivity from AppStore - bug reports

2022-06-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Jan, For example : tdf#147337 The others (there were at least 2 other instances, for example tdf#147130), all seem to have had similar comments deleted in the interim. Alex Le 14/06/2022 à 19:42, Jan Holesovsky a écrit : Hi Alex, Alexander Thurgood píše v Út 14. 06. 2022 v 09:52

[board-discuss] Collabora Productivity from AppStore - bug reports

2022-06-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hello to all, Might I suggest that a discussion be had, either by the Board, or the ESC, and a decision be made of public record, as to where bugs relating to Collabora Productivity are to be reported ? I have reported a number of bugs against Collabora Productivity in the LibreOffice

[board-discuss] Re: New draft of the proposal for in-house developers

2022-03-25 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, See my comments inline under Julien's. Le 25/03/2022 à 09:18, Julien Nabet a écrit : Firebird is not the only pb, charts aren't displayed anymore in reports and the whole reports part is dependent on old Java external components. Yes, the issue of charts in reports no longer being

Re: [board-discuss] Enable TDF to contribute more code to LibreOffice with in-house developers to address our donors specific needs

2022-02-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, I'd just like to comment on the exchange below, from my perspective: Le 10/02/2022 à 15:27, Italo Vignoli a écrit : Then there is a number of donors who ask to stop the recurring donation. Some of them provide a reason, which in some cases is that he wanted to donate once and not

Re: [board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Thanks Ilmari ! I seem to have missed that ! Will need to try it out again, and apologies for my erroneous statement in that case. Alex Le 13/01/2022 à 21:08, Ilmari Lauhakangas a écrit : On 13.1.2022 21.56, Michael Meeks wrote: On 13/01/2022 12:35, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Endian-ness

Re: [board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Michael, Thanks for jumping in on this thread, and I appreciate you having taken the time to address my points. Comments inline : Le 12/01/2022 à 21:45, Michael Meeks a écrit : Unfortunately - this tends to dis-aggregate the funding again - so we end up either with too little money

Re: [board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Paolo, Answers/comments/response inline : Le 12/01/2022 à 14:56, Paolo Vecchi a écrit : *1) Support offering from commercial entities* There isn't much we can do in this area as each company chooses its own business model. Offering a SLA to fix a bug could mean spending a day in

Re: [board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
an 12, 2022 at 10:09 AM Alexander Thurgood wrote: It seems increasingly obvious that the provider of these commercial versions is not interested in maintaining database functionality and the supporting Java functionality that accompanies the Base module. The reasons for t

[board-discuss] Commercial entity vs community development and distribution

2022-01-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi *, Sophie suggested that I might want to raise what I perceive as an issue here on this list, that is connected, but not identical, to the issue relating to the Attic question, and the questions around the sidelining of features/functionality in commercially developed and distributed

[tdf-discuss] Re: Java still broke on LibreOffice 5.1.1

2016-03-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 11/03/2016 18:51, Larry Gusaas a écrit : Dear Mr. Gussas, > That is not a fix but a workaround. Fix it. > No doubt if I had the skills to do so, I might, but I'm afraid my poor brain can only cope with installing a JDK and occasionally offering some of my time to try and answer the

[tdf-discuss] Re: Java still broke on LibreOffice 5.1.1

2016-03-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 11/03/2016 01:47, Larry Gusaas a écrit : > LibreOffice 5.1.1 on Macs still doesn't recognize Java Runtime > Environment (JRE 1.8.0_73 & OS X ver.10.11.3) > > You need to fix this bug. Can't use database without JRE. > Cf. bug 96163 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96163

[tdf-discuss] Re: Replace validate in XML Filter dialog with Open in Editor

2011-10-25 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/10/11 23:41, Peter Jentsch a écrit : Hi Peter, So I'd like to hear your opinions on that: is anyone using the validation button or at least theoretically sees some practical value to it, compared to offering to open the resulting XML in your favourite editor? The problem I see

[tdf-discuss] Re: Lotus Wordpro specifications? Other format specs?

2011-09-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 14/09/11 17:18, Caolán McNamara a écrit : Hi all, Symphony might have one, but the source for that isn't available. There was an announcement a number of months ago that it would be, but no indication of a timeline as far as I understand. I seem to recall that there was a LWP filter in

[steering-discuss] Re: trademark use request

2011-08-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/08/11 10:18, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Florian, Alex, how does that sound from a legal point of view? Is it strong enough? Usage is explained in our trademark policy. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems?

[steering-discuss] Re: trademark use request

2011-08-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/08/11 10:18, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Second thoughts, subject to international copyright laws. Uses are explained our trademark policy. better still : Use thereof is explained in our trademark policy. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[steering-discuss] Re: trademark use request

2011-08-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/08/11 15:25, Simon Phipps a écrit : Hi Simon, better still : Use thereof is explained in our trademark policy. I agree that's more precise English. I am a little concerned it's uncommon usage that those with English as a second language might consider difficult, and thus I prefer

[tdf-discuss] Re: A failed query to ODBC data source

2011-08-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/08/11 16:30, Terrence Enger a écrit : Hi Terry, The problem is the message The data content could not be loaded. when I include a particular field from a particular table in the select list of a query. The curious specificity is that I can with success include char() of that field in

[tdf-discuss] Re: A failed query to ODBC data source

2011-08-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/08/11 16:30, Terrence Enger a écrit : Hi Terry, It hurts to give up on a problem, but there is the possiblity spending a lot of effort with the only result being a more specific failure message, along the lines of You gotta upgrade your remote server to a supported version of the O/S

[tdf-discuss] Re: A failed query to ODBC data source

2011-08-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/08/11 16:30, Terrence Enger a écrit : Possibly a wild goose chase, but I also found this : http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/ResultSetType-Settings-in-Openoffice-Base-td2783193.html Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems?

[steering-discuss] Re: trademark use request

2011-08-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 31/07/11 16:53, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Florian, hmmm... do I get it right that not mentioning any trademark protection is better than mentioning that a mark is protected, but not naming the registrant? The easiest way around such a situation in the present state of...flux,

[steering-discuss] Re: trademark use request

2011-07-31 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 31/07/11 10:21, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Florian, legally, the German association Freies Office Deutschland e.V. is the current trademark holder, as TDF doesn't exist as legal entity yet. Ideally then, reference should be made to the FOD Verein and not to TDF. Not mentioning the

[steering-discuss] Re: trademark use request

2011-07-30 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 30/07/11 18:39, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Florian I received a trademark use request from an extension vendor. For confidentiality reasons (the product has not yet been launched), I'll remove the name, but the request is as follows: Back of the product box: LibreOffice is a

[tdf-discuss] Re: disclaimer for extension website

2011-07-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/07/11 00:13, Dennis E. Hamilton a écrit : Hi Dennis, Some sites have a link for DMCA notices, often at the bottom of the page. I see them from time to time, but don't know where I last saw one. I will check some obvious candidates: Many of the aggregator sites for what turn out

[steering-discuss] Re: screen-shots Documentation Team

2011-07-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 09/07/11 23:32, Simon Phipps a écrit : As someone who also has worked in this field for the best part of a decade, and given the advice Alex has already provided appears extreme, I would suggest also seeking counsel from another specialist if TDF wishes to pursue this path, perhaps from

[steering-discuss] Re: screen-shots Documentation Team

2011-07-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 09/07/11 23:26, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : Hi all, Someone suggested I sling in some caselaw or other references on whether copyright protection is available for UIs : US Just one caselaw review : http://www.legalserviceindia.com/articles/crind.htm Europe In European Union Court of Justice

[steering-discuss] Re: screen-shots Documentation Team

2011-07-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/07/11 11:48, Tom Davies a écrit : Everyone : To me, the point has more to do with SC communication. Once again, a topic has raised its head that I considered dealt with, and now it is back on the table. Although not a member of the SC, the question of the legality of screenshot usage and

[tdf-discuss] Re: Poll Daily-Builds usage - we need your experience

2011-07-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/07/11 17:23, Rainer Bielefeld a écrit : 1 My OS is: MAC 2 Update Info: Useful 3 I test:frequently 4 I test for: Scripting, Extensions, Base module 5 My suggestion: it would be nice to be able to get testtool tests to run again Alex Thurgood -- Unsubscribe instructions:

[tdf-discuss] Re: When can we have a API to send Emails ?

2011-06-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/06/11 13:46, Caolán McNamara a écrit : Hi Caolàn, On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 14:18 +0200, Fernand Vanrie wrote: So please can someone make this small change in the API You *might* get some change out of the com.sun.star.mail.MailMessage service which implements XMailMessage which has a

[tdf-discuss] Re: When can we have a API to send Emails ?

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 22/06/11 14:18, Fernand Vanrie a écrit : Hi Fernand, For some reasons the developpers off the OO-API has decided to not allow sending Emails using there API imho the mechanism is in place Well, one can already find : const rtl::OUString

[tdf-discuss] Re: When can we have a API to send Emails ?

2011-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/06/11 15:44, Fernand Vanrie a écrit : Hi Fernand, Thanks for yoyr reply, but how do we acces this with the API ? Greetz From my reading of the bits in the code I could find, it is not implemented. Now that I think of it, I seem to recall that this all came from the StarOffice

[tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/06/11 08:36, Marc-André Laverdière a écrit : Is there _any_ database that people use that doesn't have a JDBC driver at this point? Maybe we can keep our lives simple by only enabling JDBC drivers? Other than the fact that it would make LibreOffice even more dependent on Java

[tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 12/06/11 03:04, Uwe Altmann a écrit : Hi Uwe, Adabas was bundeled only with StarOffice (never with OOo) - it was one of the Add-Ons Star Office had (besides more Gallery entries, templates and better spell checking then OOo) in former times. In former times refers to OOo 1.* when OOo

[tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/06/11 18:46, Cor Nouws a écrit : Hi Cor, When creating a new Database, connecting to an existing one, you can choose Adabas DB... So I guess the code has to do with that? Well I eventually managed to find a free download of Adabas D for Linux. The setup is not trivial, even for an

[tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/06/11 14:48, Francois Tigeot a écrit : Hi François, In the past, some versions of StarOffice were bundled with a limited freeware version of the Adabas database engine. The Adabas support is still present in LibreOffice; howewer, I'm not sure if it is still used or if the free (as

[tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 11/06/11 10:45, Francois Tigeot a écrit : Hi François, Where did you find your download copy ? Is it recent ? I had a look at the official website here : http://www.softwareag.com/Corporate/products/adabas/rela_3rd_prod/adad/default.asp and there's no download link. Yeah, you have to

[tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 11/06/11 10:49, Cor Nouws a écrit : Hi Cor, Very very few, I guess ;-) But imagine some deployment have an old DB of that type running on a server. Could well be, isn't it? Well the company say that there is a JDBC driver available, so even if direct support was pulled from LibO, it

[tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 11/06/11 10:54, Francois Tigeot a écrit : Hi François, Oh, I'm really indifferent about it; what I'm concerned about is the hardcoded list of platforms determining whether the client library is build or not. Agreed. I'd like to remove this list, and either build the adabas client

[tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/06/11 14:48, Francois Tigeot a écrit : Hi François In the past, some versions of StarOffice were bundled with a limited freeware version of the Adabas database engine. The Adabas support is still present in LibreOffice; howewer, I'm not sure if it is still used or if the free (as

[tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/06/11 14:48, Francois Tigeot a écrit : Me again, In the past, some versions of StarOffice were bundled with a limited freeware version of the Adabas database engine. The Adabas support is still present in LibreOffice; howewer, I'm not sure if it is still used or if the free (as in

[tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/06/11 18:46, Cor Nouws a écrit : Hi Cor, If it is there in the code, it can not be seen anywhere in the UI that I know of, When creating a new Database, connecting to an existing one, you can choose Adabas DB... So I guess the code has to do with that? It is not available on the

[tdf-discuss] Re: Oracle contributes OOo Code to Apache Software Foundation's Incubator

2011-06-01 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 01/06/11 18:14, NoOp a écrit : It will be interesting to see how this works out how TDF will work with ASF. You gotta love corporations :-)) Just 5 months ago, ASF ditched the JCP and told Oracle to go forth and multiply, and now here it is taking on the OOo project - better than any

[tdf-discuss] Re: OpenOffice dead and burried?

2011-05-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/05/11 12:49, plino a écrit : Hi plino, What do they mean by handing it back? Are they giving up on the OpenOffice brand? Can someone from TDF shed some light? Nobody seems to know, or if they do, they are keeping wraps on it. The people still around on the openoffice.org lists are

[steering-discuss] Re: LibreOffice TSC call, Thur May 12th - 15:00 UTC...

2011-05-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/05/11 11:25, Petr Mladek a écrit : Bug 36991 - crash when duplicating draw page with linked wmf pictures I think a crash in a basic function that might affect many users is not acceptable. I agree that it is annoying and we should fix it ASAP. It seems to behave very randomly.

[tdf-discuss] Re: interesting article

2011-04-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 18/04/11 20:41, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit : Hi all, Just to clarify something im not glad that those people who worked on the OOo project might have the possibility of losing their jobs, I hope that oracle has shuffled them into other development areas. Then again im glad to see the

[tdf-discuss] Re: QA - Bug Confirming: Volunteers required

2011-04-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/04/11 04:20, Christian Lohmaier a écrit : Hi Christian, Yes, I agree - fur the (expanded) purpose of verifying whether resolved fixed issues are actually working in the release, there should be a RC at least (or a version that can be installed alongside the stable version without dirty

[tdf-discuss] Re: Libreoffice for Mac

2011-03-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/03/11 15:20, adept techlists - kazar a écrit : Hi, so far the actual question has not been answered i'm also curious to know if there is a strong Mac porting team among those who are now working on LibreOffice, and whether they will be ensuring Lion compatibility You might be

[steering-discuss] Re: Approval of our Trademark Policy

2011-03-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/03/11 01:00, drew a écrit : Hi Drew, Well which is it - is the community logo w/registered trademark, mark or not? - it is both ways on the wiki page above - PNG w/out any mark, SVG with 'registered trademark, while on the trademark policy page it seems that maybe it is just a tm that

[tdf-discuss] Re: Strange OpenOffice Email from a new universe

2011-02-28 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/02/11 15:21, Joe Rotello a écrit : Hi Joe, A lot of us past OpenOffice.org users are getting Emails now from OpenOffice.org inviting us to a new OpenOffice universe. Overall, this is going to confuse the living daylights out of a great many OpenSource users, of which we are observing

[tdf-discuss] Re: Oracle Contributor Agreement and LibreOffice contributions

2011-02-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/02/11 16:51, Phil Hibbs a écrit : Hi Phil, Nonetheless, saying it's better for us if you don't submit your patches to OOo is kind of like saying Lets hope OOo don't spot this bug/issue. It's ethically dubious. If this is the official approach, then why not just make a clean break

[tdf-discuss] Re: Help with telling the story Re: Accessibility: What's the story?

2011-02-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/02/11 18:59, drew a écrit : I also have some vague recollection that the state of Massachusetts migration to OOo was rejected because of the lack of accessibility tools at the time, a requirement under that state's procurement laws. So the topic is an important one, especially if

[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice Community starts 50, 000 Euro challenge for setting-up its foundation

2011-02-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/02/11 13:18, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Florian, I see that this page exists translated into German and Spanish. If I wanted to provide a translation into French, how would I go about doing that ? At present, I have no access as author to the TDF website, and don't see any real need

[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice Community starts 50, 000 Euro challenge for setting-up its foundation

2011-02-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/02/11 13:25, sophie a écrit : Hi Sophie, I see that this page exists translated into German and Spanish. If I wanted to provide a translation into French, how would I go about doing that ? At present, I have no access as author to the TDF website, and don't see any real need to have

[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice Community starts 50, 000 Euro challenge for setting-up its foundation

2011-02-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/02/11 16:46, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hi Florian, thanks for your contribution, much appreciated! David or Christian can give you editor rights -- the more localizations we have for the page, the better it is :) Its OK, I don't actually need them, I think Sophie is going to

[tdf-discuss] Re: Oracle Contributor Agreement and LibreOffice contributions

2011-02-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/02/11 15:28, Christophe Strobbe a écrit : Hi Christophe, 1. Now imagine that I contribute code to LibreOffice and the contribution is accepted. Is it then still acceptable (from a copyright point of view) to sign the Oracle Contributor Agreement and submit the same code to

[tdf-discuss] Re: Computer Magazine cover CDs

2011-02-09 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 09/02/11 19:20, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit : im not saying redistribute it. i would put together a summary of the 20 things we could get an edge against OOo on. the summary basically says that things are slowly improving, with it we can take those things that are slowly improving on OOo

[steering-discuss] Re: Trademark Policy of the Document Foundation

2011-01-28 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/01/11 13:47, Michael Meeks a écrit : Hi Michael, I suppose they need permission :-) With the caveat of the fair use exception, which does not require permission. The notion of fair use varies from country to country. In some countries, you are even allowed to use registered

[tdf-discuss] Re: Mac distribution of LibreOffice: Mac Update and Version Tracker

2011-01-27 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/01/11 20:51, Fabián Rodríguez a écrit : Hi Fabian, Someone there mentioned App Update which supports Mac Update and Version Tracker. I noticed LibreOffice is there, are these download channels or information sites up to date or should this be integrated to the release cycle somehow

[tdf-discuss] Re: The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3

2011-01-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/01/11 03:43, NoOp a écrit : Hi, Sorry, but IMO RC4/Final should have waited awhile until some of the more basic bugs were resolved. Perhaps LO are now on the distro fast-track (ala Ubuntu et al) rather than sorting out issues and releasing when fully cooked? Perhaps it has more to

[steering-discuss] Re: Trademark Policy of the Document Foundation

2011-01-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 21/01/11 16:41, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Hi all, A lightning speed reading of the guidelines brought the following thought to my mind : If you are selling services for TDF software (for example, support), you may not tie the download of the product with the purchase of the service. The

[tdf-discuss] Re: Mac App Store - or else ?

2011-01-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/01/11 17:32, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : Hi Charles, You should also ask all the other devs now :-) What I would like to have, more seriously, is lawyers working on this... Best, This lawyer is busy trying to find time to get its head round the draft TM usage

[tdf-discuss] Re: Mac App Store - or else ?

2011-01-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 13/01/11 23:44, Larry Gusaas a écrit : Hi Larry, Make it available in the App Store. OOo was always listed in the Open Source software download page at Apple support. That service has now been replaced by the App Store. I checked out the App Store the day before yesterday and was

[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice version for Android platform

2011-01-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 12/01/11 23:00, Tom Tasche a écrit : As far as reading and writing ODS spreadsheet files are concerned, you should all take a look at Androffice (pay software). It also has the capacity to access GoogleDocs directly. Unfortunately, it does not appear to be going anywhere very fast, at least I

[tdf-discuss] Re: Templates unavailable at templates.services.openoffice.org

2011-01-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/01/11 15:50, Cor Nouws a écrit : Hi all, I am sure it is considered. Maybe this one has slipped through, is in the pipe-line or ?? http://templates.services.openoffice.org/da is working for me with Firefox, but the other N-L sections all return a 503 error. The site is really slow

[tdf-discuss] Re: (Fwd) The French Gov. loves Microsoft

2011-01-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi, Le 03/01/11 12:37, Zaphod Feeblejocks a écrit : I guess if you want to buy an iPad in France, now is a good time to do it! An iPad or any other mobile OS based device, including your telephone :-) (the tax, if finally passed into law, should also affect WindowsMobile phones) - the

[tdf-discuss] Re: TDF/LO on a wrong way?

2010-12-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Johannes, Le 14/12/10 13:52, Johannes A. Bodwing a écrit : Interesting comments and very praiseworthy intentions, but ... So many things are done different in many goups. That costs energy and time and at least motivation. But there are many things that could be done together. Like a

[tdf-discuss] Re: It is possible to use Mac's service in Libreoffice

2010-12-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Jih-Yao, Le 07/12/10 09:05, Jih-Yao Lin a écrit : I need to use Mac's service in Libreoffice to communicate with other applications in Mac. But, now these service seems to be dead. What exactly do you mean ? I can see the menu entry Services under the main LibreOffice menu when I start

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/11/10 23:53, Robert Derman a écrit : As far as 5x7 that is a guesstimation. What I do know for sure is that when I print manuals out there are usually hugely wasteful margins at all 4 sides when they are printed on 8.5x11 inch paper which is the only size commonly available in the U.S.

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/11/10 03:31, Marc Paré a écrit : I find that it sometimes does not require much. I had problems with spammers and bots on my sites till I added a captcha where you had to spell words backwards. Spam is now down to a very small trickle and I can now literally monitor new signups and to

Re: [tdf-discuss] FreeDesktop Bugzilla

2010-11-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Le 15/11/10 05:39, Marc Paré a écrit : While I think this is a good idea, are you looking to see if this is possible to do on the LO website? IMHO, I think this would be a brilliant idea too, and would help with bug triaging. In my experience, most people's immediate concern /

Re: [tdf-discuss] Survey|Opinion - LibreOffice Install and Update

2010-10-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Well I have recently acquired a new Macbook Pro for work to replace my old Linux netbook (RIP, sniff), and I also have a Windows XP machine reserved for certain Windows only software that doesn't run well under emulation, so I have been used to using OOo on all 3 platforms. On my Mac I

RE : [tdf-discuss] Does LO still overwrite OOo?

2010-10-02 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi James, From what I've seen so far on my macbook pro, it writes everything to its own directory. If you are concerned and want to be safe, just back up your /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Openoffice.org folder first. Alex Le 2 oct. 2010 18:08, James Wilde