[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-projects] Macro Conversion Project

2018-06-29 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Fahiri, On 29/06/18 13:43, Fahri Güreşçi wrote: > My name is Fahri. I recently graduated from computer engineering. Great to meet you. > I know macros are causing a lot of problems in LibreOffice migrations. I am > writing a service that will translate Microsoft Office macros into one

Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Collabora support IPV6 environments?

2018-01-18 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Stefan, On 17/01/18 20:58, Stefan Veith wrote: > Conclusion: Also dual stack is working as expected. Thanks for testing =) Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Collabora support IPV6 environments?

2018-01-15 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Stefan, On 14/01/18 17:44, Stefan Veith wrote: > For the default setting ("all") loolwsd is listening on IPv6 only. > Netstat does not show port 9980 listening on IPv4. That is interesting; quite probably the OS can't easily show this to people; do you have other examples of sockets

Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Collabora support IPV6 environments?

2018-01-09 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Stefan, On 07/01/18 20:29, Stefan Veith wrote: > I started testing Collabora V3 (CODE) to integrate online office into my > nextcloud. ... > My Nextcloud is only reachable via IPV6 from the internet because my cable > ISP (Unitymedia) provides internet access via DSLite (Dual Stack Lite with >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot run Libre Office on the new Microsoft Surface Computers

2015-12-03 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Allan, Thanks for reporting this. On Thu, 2015-12-03 at 11:56 +0100, Cley Faye wrote: > 2015-12-03 5:58 GMT+01:00 Allan : > > Having problems running Libre Office on both the new Surface Pro 4 and on > > the new Surface Book. After installing the application

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer and EPS images.

2015-03-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Steve, On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 13:36 +1300, Steve Edmonds wrote: Most of my data sheets have EPS images (for the vector graphics) output from our cad system. Up until LO4.1 went to 4.2.. these were printed correctly. This an annoying one to fix sadly; it's easy enough to get EPS

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer and EPS images.

2015-03-11 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 06:24 +1300, Steve Edmonds wrote: Of interest was that LO4.3 on my mac renders correctly on screen but prints incorrectly. If you can imagine that is quite misleading with an EPS with no preview. That is rather curious =) I guess the great-white-hope is not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: fixing as a service ...

2014-10-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 08:42 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Setting up an entire automated build/test environment is simply way beyond my capability. The best I can do is download installable builds and simply test them by using them. Sounds good :-) that's why we have daily (and

[libreoffice-users] Understanding bugs / regressions / releases more ...

2014-10-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Paul, I apologize for not tackling your mail - apparently you hid most of it after a sign off, and I didn't notice it =) On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 00:26 +0200, Paul wrote: Please also understand that I don't use the feature in question, and until now didn't even know it was broken

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Tanstaafl, On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 15:23 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: You call the bug in question a major regression, and forget that the people providing quality assurance are indeed volunteers. They either catch a regression, or they don't. Yes, but ... a) surely you aren't denying the

[libreoffice-users] fixing as a service ...

2014-10-03 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Tanstaafl / Florian, On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 09:50 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: You obviously haven't read this entire thread. Florian is trying to extort money from me to fix this major regression. So - just to put my oar in here since Collabora was mentioned; I notice several issues here

Re: [libreoffice-users] fixing as a service ...

2014-10-03 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 12:26 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: So basically LibreOffice is Is what it is (profound huh). Anything could easily fail at any time. All software is buggy. If something does fail then users are expected to fix it for themselves ? I don't know

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-28 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 21:33 +0700, Urmas wrote: What pleasure do you take out of insulting people? It is you who are insulting people. Please, please - lets calm down =) Charles is right - it makes sense to have a consistent, findable brand: LibreOffice emphasized - it is good to have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-23 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 10:24 +0200, Alex Thurgood wrote: The dev working on LO didn't like the StarOffice binary filter code Hated it with a passion is probably a better description than didn't like - that code screwed us over and held us back very significantly. It was a cut/paste of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Engaging users: initial results of the survey

2013-11-12 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Urmas, On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 05:35 +0700, Urmas wrote: Then why does the LO site not feature a warning on a front page: User, you are ... So - trying to condense something positive out of this; it sounds like we should have something (perhaps in the BSA) that explains to newcomers,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Engaging users: initial results of the survey

2013-11-12 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Ken, On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 11:33 -0700, Ken Springer wrote: After using LO for awhile, I found and filed a couple of bugs/issues. I wanted to contribute in the area of reporting issues, but I don't have the knowledge to fix them. I didn't expect those problems to go to the head of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Engaging users: initial results of the survey

2013-11-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Urmas, So - I don't really understand your mail, which is a shame. On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 07:23 +0700, Urmas wrote: The only way users can contribute is when they are paying. Surely you're a user - and you contribute with bug filing, triage, and other QA things which are much

Re: [libreoffice-users] Hello

2013-03-22 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Tom, On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 11:27 +, Tom Davies wrote: Now that Oracle are in charge of developing it Java seems to be increasing as a security risk. You're smoking some good stuff here Tom ;- Oracle are no doubt improving the situation they inherited in Java just fine. Last I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice

2013-03-18 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Stephen, On Mon, 2013-03-18 at 08:34 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I am having all sorts of problems with the source code in Eclipse. I have created a new blank C++ project in Eclipse and imported the entire sc directory into that project. Subsequently I have opened dpgroupdlg.cxx in

[libreoffice-users] Re: XSLX import/export filter funding

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Runar, On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 22:45 +0100, Runar Ingebrigtsen wrote: I am having the pleasure of deploying LibreOffice to 50 employees at a local business. Lovely :-) Unfortunately, this is hampered by the performance of the xlsx import/export filters. Meaning that there are some

Re: [libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice

2013-02-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Stephen, On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 07:11 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: On 02/06/2013 04:56 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: Adding the features you need to the core, so everyone can enjoy them out of the box is almost certainly the best way to achieve your goals - and (after all) C++ is not so

Re: [libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice

2013-02-05 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 17:08 +0100, Wolfgang Keller wrote: Via Simon Phipps on Twitter: We're rewriting the LibreOffice wizards in Python because we can no longer be sure Java will be there -- Michael Meeks, #FOSDEM Hopefully then Python will replace Basic too

Re: [libreoffice-users] Development of Extensions for LibreOffice

2013-02-05 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Stephen, On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 06:57 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: I have Eclipse with the OpenOffice plugin to enable development of extensions for Libreoffice. Can someone tell where I can get documentation on the Libreoffice Calc internals and how to interface specifically to

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Excuse me, but your opinion is simplyunimportant. Start over and you can expect more of the same.

2012-08-17 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 20:05 -0500, V Stuart Foote wrote: It is pretty rare for specifics of bugs to be entered on the Users list, where there might have a passing comment that a bug would be or had been filed. But often no additional details of the bug in the discussion. But, that said, the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Excuse me, but your opinion is simply unimportant. Start over and you can expect more of the same.

2012-08-17 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Marc, On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 09:03 -0800, Marc Grober wrote: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35361 ... that you knew you are creating extra work for the volunteers on the QA team with intend is really disgusting given the workload of this team. I suspect that what upset

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Excuse me, but your opinion is simply unimportant. Start over and you can expect more of the same.

2012-08-17 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 09:00 -0800, Marc Grober wrote: The latest from Florian in misspelled CAPS (which now brings us to the fact that the devs have touched this bug some 8 times without ever bothering to actually read it) - Bravo Florian, we read you 5 by 5: I've read it a couple of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Excuse me, but your opinion is simply unimportant. Start over and you can expect more of the same.

2012-08-16 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Marc, On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 08:23 -0800, Marc Grober wrote: But the devs have spent more time fiddling with how it is listed One thing that frustrates me, since I've only just subscribed is that we seem to be talking about a load of bugs with no numbers I can easily lookup.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Default Encryption Fails for Down-Level Implementations

2012-03-26 Thread Michael Meeks
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 22:25 +, Caolán McNamara wrote: On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 13:37 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Here is a message that I have just sent to ooo-dev about the silent switching to AES256 being an interoperability problem. The recommendation is to stay with the only

[libreoffice-users] Re: ODF format validity

2011-06-28 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Milos, Milos Sramek sramek.milos at gmail.com writes: I want to point to a problem regarding validity of the ODF documents produced by LO. Your report ended up as a bug report here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37390 and was fixed, the fix will be in 3.4.1 out soon.