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        <entry xml:lang="en">
+               <title type="html">OpenOffice.org in internet cafes threat to 
Microsoft</title>
+               <link 
href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/12/openoffice-org-in-internet-cafes-threat-to-microsoft/"/>
+               <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=833</id>
+               <updated>2010-01-12T09:29:31+00:00</updated>
+               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Another week, another example of 
how Microsoft is being forced to react to the increasing adoption of &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://why.openoffice.org/&quot;&gt;OpenOffice.org&lt;/a&gt; as the 
2010 office software of choice. Clearly worried by OpenOffice.org&amp;#8217;s 
increasing market share, Microsoft has been forced to change its licencing 
terms in an attempt to hold on to its internet cafe business. 
&lt;em&gt;Directions on Microsoft&lt;/em&gt; analyst Paul DeGroot &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10432154-56.html&quot;&gt;admits&lt;/a&gt;
 that Linux and OpenOffice.org are a perfectly viable alternative to Microsoft 
Windows and MS-Office for web cafes.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Internet cafe business is important for Microsoft &amp;#8211; one 
open-source cafe can demonstrate to thousands of customers every year that 
there is a viable alternative to Microsoft&amp;#8217;s products. The freedom 
from licence fees means the cafes can offer better value to customers, flex 
their business in response to customer demand, and don&amp;#8217;t live in 
constant dread of a visit from a licence enforcement team.&lt;/p&gt;</content>
+               <author>
+                       <name>John McCreesh</name>
+                       <uri>http://www.mealldubh.org</uri>
+               </author>
+               <source>
+                       <title type="html">Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org</title>
+                       <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle>
+                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/"/>
+                       
<id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id>
+                       <updated>2010-01-12T12:00:15+00:00</updated>
+               </source>
+       </entry>
+
+       <entry xml:lang="en">
                <title type="html">The blog is mightier than the sword</title>
                <link 
href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/08/the-blog-is-mightier-than-the-sword/"/>
                <id>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=830</id>
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<id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id>
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                        <subtitle type="html">A weblog by Charles-H. 
Schulz.</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
href="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed"/>
                        
<id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id>
-                       <updated>2010-01-11T18:00:16+00:00</updated>
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<id>http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/category/ooo-postings/feed</id>
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-                       <updated>2010-01-11T18:00:16+00:00</updated>
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-                       <updated>2010-01-12T06:00:16+00:00</updated>
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                        <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle>
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-                       <updated>2010-01-12T06:00:15+00:00</updated>
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@@ -335,148 +355,7 @@
                        <subtitle type="html">a view from a dark hill</subtitle>
                        <link rel="self" 
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<id>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/category/open-source/openofficeorg/feed/</id>
-                       <updated>2010-01-12T06:00:15+00:00</updated>
-               </source>
-       </entry>
-
-       <entry>
-               <title type="html">Project Renaissance Impress Improvements - 
Found the required slide layout yet?</title>
-               <link 
href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/project_renaissance_impress_improvements_found"/>
-               <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/c1d6aa5a1662f6af</id>
-               <updated>2009-12-10T15:50:52+00:00</updated>
-               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span 
lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;As
-indicated in the previous posts, we have started to redesign a few really basic
-interactions in OpenOffice.org Impress in order to reduce the overall
-complexity of the UI. Currently, we focus on navigation through slides in
-various contexts, the visual appearance of different slide selection states and
-the handling of slide layouts. Today, I want to share some thoughts about a 
different
-way how to assign slide layouts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;The 
Challenge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;At present,
-OpenOffice.org Impress offers five ways how to change the layout of an existing
-slide. However, four of those merely trigger or point to the task pane.
-Consequently, there is only one “real” way how a user can pick and apply a
-slide layout, and there is no way doing that without the task pane. Thinking
-about a common scenario of creating a presentation, adding new slides,
-modifying existing ones, adjusting their layouts, one can imagine that
-switching the task pane on and off over and over again is an unwanted
-interruption. Keeping the task pane permanently alive is of course an option. 
Yet,
-if you want to concentrate more on the content of your work instead on the
-tools at hand, you’d rather prefer to disable the task pane since it consumes
-quite a lot of screen real estate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 
-  &lt;table&gt; 
-    &lt;tbody&gt; 
-      &lt;tr align=&quot;center&quot;&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/nTPy6PHiy_ZhM0l8c9l6pA?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;&lt;img
 
src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1V3VpP3YHN0/SyD3l_bx5FI/AAAAAAAADOM/wukIYT-BE0c/s400/impress_1024_768_slide_layout%20copy.png&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;Von &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/send.to.andreas/OOoUIIdeasAndMockUps?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;OOo
 UI - Ideas and Mock-Ups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-    &lt;/tbody&gt; 
-  &lt;/table&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;In
-addition, there is no way to insert a slide with a favored layout in only one
-step. Currently, the default work flow requires a user to insert a slide first,
-decide if the layout meets the expectations and then assign the preferred
-layout if expectations are not met. From our point of view, there should be a
-more elegant solution to that, too.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Another
-drawback of the current implementation of slide layouts is that their sheer
-number exceeds a practical amount that covers most use cases without getting
-too difficult to work with. Including the vertical layouts OpenOffice.org
-Impress 3.2 Beta offers 27 slide layouts. That is challenging for two
-particular reasons. The 27 slide layouts have to go somewhere in the UI, namely
-into the task pane, where they consume a lot of space. Since they are so many,
-it is often necessary to scroll through the task pane in order to get an
-overview what is available and during search. Picking one is also not always
-easy because in a worst case a user has to look through 27 options and then
-decide which one to pick. That takes time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Possible
-Solutions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Since
-OpenOffice.org Impress already has a dedicated “Presentation” toolbar that
-contains an “Insert Slide” and a “Slide Layout” button, the 
Renaissance i-Team
-started working on a solution that offers a technique to change slide layouts
-without the necessity to constantly use the task pane. Motivated by the visual 
concepts in our prototypes, we will try to add a preview pane into the toolbar 
such that users can directly pick a layout from a drop down toolbox, in the 
context of the task (insert slide, change slide layout). In parallel, we have
-decided to add more value to that particular “Presentation” toolbar by 
reducing
-its functionality to support the most important tasks only (insert slide, 
change slide layout, change slide design, set slide transition, start 
presentation).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;table&gt; 
-    &lt;tbody&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/wQIFYP08obB9HW7DOJmDqQ?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;&lt;img
 
src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1V3VpP3YHN0/SyD3pI0sK4I/AAAAAAAADOQ/cxU-r6zNNvg/s400/insert_slide.jpg&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;Von &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/send.to.andreas/OOoUIIdeasAndMockUps?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;OOo
 UI - Ideas and Mock-Ups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-    &lt;/tbody&gt; 
-  &lt;/table&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;We have
-also considered options to handle slide layouts from various mouse context
-menus. However, this seems to be very challenging from an implementation point 
of
-view. Although we already have some design mock-ups, we need to explore the 
feasibility
-of that solution first on all platforms. So for now, the development team is 
investigating our
-options.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;table&gt; 
-    &lt;tbody&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/RFVLQp4BRalXvOKw_jYIqQ?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;&lt;img
 
src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1V3VpP3YHN0/SyD3pY2naKI/AAAAAAAADOU/YBHPdRfdPH4/s400/merge_layouts.jpg&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;Von &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/send.to.andreas/OOoUIIdeasAndMockUps?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;OOo
 UI - Ideas and Mock-Ups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-    &lt;/tbody&gt; 
-  &lt;/table&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;One way to
-reduce the amount of slide layouts is to offer object placeholders in each
-layout that can be used to insert images, charts, tables and the like where
-usually text content would appear. That would make the need to create slide
-layouts with tables, images or charts separately 
obsolete.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Overall,
-these changes may seem small or less significant compared to other troubles
-such as the inability to create own slide layouts. However, having the goal of
-thinning out the current UI in mind, these redesigns and the sum of all 
forthcoming
-incremental improvements of the work flow will eventually keep us on the right
-track. For details about the ongoing work check out the &lt;a 
title=&quot;Renaissance i-Team Wiki&quot; 
href=&quot;http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:Impress&quot;&gt;Renaissance
 i-Team
-Wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Best,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Andreas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt; 
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
-               <author>
-                       <name>Andreas Bartel</name>
-                       <uri></uri>
-               </author>
-               <source>
-                       <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google 
Reader</title>
-                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/>
-                       
<id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id>
-                       <updated>2010-01-12T06:00:16+00:00</updated>
-               </source>
-       </entry>
-
-       <entry>
-               <title type="html">New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build 
DEV300_m67) available</title>
-               <link 
href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x21"/>
-               <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/5bf8948eda8f47dd</id>
-               <updated>2009-12-10T10:19:09+00:00</updated>
-               <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Developer Snapshot 
build&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; OOo-Dev DEV300_m67&lt;/b&gt; is available for 
download.&lt;/p&gt;
-  &lt;p&gt;DEV300 is the development codeline for the upcoming OOo 3.x 
releases.
-&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;If you find severe issues within this build please file them to 
OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html&quot; 
title=&quot;OpenOffice.org IssueTracker&quot;&gt;IssueTracker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br 
/&gt; &lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;Please use the following download page:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://download.openoffice.org/next&quot; title=&quot;Download 
page&quot;&gt;http://download.openoffice.org/next&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;Release Notes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m67_snapshot.html&quot;
 title=&quot;Release 
Notes&quot;&gt;http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m67_snapshot.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br
 /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;MD5 checksums:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Page containing MD5 
checksums&quot; 
href=&quot;http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m67_md5sums.txt&quot;&gt;http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m67_md5sums.txt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
-               <author>
-                       <name>Joost Andrae</name>
-                       <uri></uri>
-               </author>
-               <source>
-                       <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google 
Reader</title>
-                       <link rel="self" 
href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/>
-                       
<id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id>
-                       <updated>2010-01-12T06:00:16+00:00</updated>
+                       <updated>2010-01-12T12:00:15+00:00</updated>
                </source>
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-<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 12, 2010 06:00 AM 
CET</em></p>
+<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a 
href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: January 12, 2010 12:00 PM 
CET</em></p>
 
+<h2>January 12, 2010</h2>
+<h3>
+<a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org">
+John McCreesh</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
+<a 
href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/12/openoffice-org-in-internet-cafes-threat-to-microsoft/";>
+OpenOffice.org in internet cafes threat to Microsoft</a>
+</h3>
+<p>
+<p>Another week, another example of how Microsoft is being forced to react to 
the increasing adoption of <a 
href="http://why.openoffice.org/";>OpenOffice.org</a> as the 2010 office 
software of choice. Clearly worried by OpenOffice.org&#8217;s increasing market 
share, Microsoft has been forced to change its licencing terms in an attempt to 
hold on to its internet cafe business. <em>Directions on Microsoft</em> analyst 
Paul DeGroot <a 
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10432154-56.html";>admits</a> that Linux 
and OpenOffice.org are a perfectly viable alternative to Microsoft Windows and 
MS-Office for web cafes.</p>
+<p>Internet cafe business is important for Microsoft &#8211; one open-source 
cafe can demonstrate to thousands of customers every year that there is a 
viable alternative to Microsoft&#8217;s products. The freedom from licence fees 
means the cafes can offer better value to customers, flex their business in 
response to customer demand, and don&#8217;t live in constant dread of a visit 
from a licence enforcement team.</p></p>
+<p>
+<em><a 
href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/12/openoffice-org-in-internet-cafes-threat-to-microsoft/";>by
 John at January 12, 2010 09:29 AM CET</a></em>
+</p>
+<br />
+<hr />
+<br />
 <h2>January 08, 2010</h2>
 <h3>
 <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org">
@@ -324,140 +340,6 @@
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 <hr />
 <br />
-<h2>December 10, 2009</h2>
-<h3>
-<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader">
-GullFOSS</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
-<a 
href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/project_renaissance_impress_improvements_found";>
-Project Renaissance Impress Improvements - Found the required slide layout 
yet?</a>
-</h3>
-<p>
-<p><span lang="EN-US">As
-indicated in the previous posts, we have started to redesign a few really basic
-interactions in OpenOffice.org Impress in order to reduce the overall
-complexity of the UI. Currently, we focus on navigation through slides in
-various contexts, the visual appearance of different slide selection states and
-the handling of slide layouts. Today, I want to share some thoughts about a 
different
-way how to assign slide layouts.</span></p> 
-  <h3><span lang="EN-US">The Challenge.</span></h3> 
-  <p><span lang="EN-US">At present,
-OpenOffice.org Impress offers five ways how to change the layout of an existing
-slide. However, four of those merely trigger or point to the task pane.
-Consequently, there is only one “real” way how a user can pick and apply a
-slide layout, and there is no way doing that without the task pane. Thinking
-about a common scenario of creating a presentation, adding new slides,
-modifying existing ones, adjusting their layouts, one can imagine that
-switching the task pane on and off over and over again is an unwanted
-interruption. Keeping the task pane permanently alive is of course an option. 
Yet,
-if you want to concentrate more on the content of your work instead on the
-tools at hand, you’d rather prefer to disable the task pane since it consumes
-quite a lot of screen real estate.</span></p> <br /> 
-  <table> 
-    <tbody> 
-      <tr align="center"> 
-        <td><a 
href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/nTPy6PHiy_ZhM0l8c9l6pA?feat=embedwebsite";><img
 
src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1V3VpP3YHN0/SyD3l_bx5FI/AAAAAAAADOM/wukIYT-BE0c/s400/impress_1024_768_slide_layout%20copy.png";
 /></a></td> 
-      </tr> 
-      <tr> 
-        <td>Von <a 
href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/send.to.andreas/OOoUIIdeasAndMockUps?feat=embedwebsite";>OOo
 UI - Ideas and Mock-Ups</a></td> 
-      </tr> 
-    </tbody> 
-  </table> <br /> 
-  <p><span lang="EN-US">In
-addition, there is no way to insert a slide with a favored layout in only one
-step. Currently, the default work flow requires a user to insert a slide first,
-decide if the layout meets the expectations and then assign the preferred
-layout if expectations are not met. From our point of view, there should be a
-more elegant solution to that, too.</span> </p> 
-  <p><span lang="EN-US">Another
-drawback of the current implementation of slide layouts is that their sheer
-number exceeds a practical amount that covers most use cases without getting
-too difficult to work with. Including the vertical layouts OpenOffice.org
-Impress 3.2 Beta offers 27 slide layouts. That is challenging for two
-particular reasons. The 27 slide layouts have to go somewhere in the UI, namely
-into the task pane, where they consume a lot of space. Since they are so many,
-it is often necessary to scroll through the task pane in order to get an
-overview what is available and during search. Picking one is also not always
-easy because in a worst case a user has to look through 27 options and then
-decide which one to pick. That takes time.</span></p> 
-  <h3><span lang="EN-US">Possible
-Solutions.</span></h3> 
-  <p><span lang="EN-US">Since
-OpenOffice.org Impress already has a dedicated “Presentation” toolbar that
-contains an “Insert Slide” and a “Slide Layout” button, the 
Renaissance i-Team
-started working on a solution that offers a technique to change slide layouts
-without the necessity to constantly use the task pane. Motivated by the visual 
concepts in our prototypes, we will try to add a preview pane into the toolbar 
such that users can directly pick a layout from a drop down toolbox, in the 
context of the task (insert slide, change slide layout). In parallel, we have
-decided to add more value to that particular “Presentation” toolbar by 
reducing
-its functionality to support the most important tasks only (insert slide, 
change slide layout, change slide design, set slide transition, start 
presentation).</span></p> 
-  <p> </p> 
-  <table> 
-    <tbody> 
-      <tr> 
-        <td><a 
href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/wQIFYP08obB9HW7DOJmDqQ?feat=embedwebsite";><img
 
src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1V3VpP3YHN0/SyD3pI0sK4I/AAAAAAAADOQ/cxU-r6zNNvg/s400/insert_slide.jpg";
 /></a></td> 
-      </tr> 
-      <tr> 
-        <td>Von <a 
href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/send.to.andreas/OOoUIIdeasAndMockUps?feat=embedwebsite";>OOo
 UI - Ideas and Mock-Ups</a></td> 
-      </tr> 
-    </tbody> 
-  </table> 
-  <p><span lang="EN-US">We have
-also considered options to handle slide layouts from various mouse context
-menus. However, this seems to be very challenging from an implementation point 
of
-view. Although we already have some design mock-ups, we need to explore the 
feasibility
-of that solution first on all platforms. So for now, the development team is 
investigating our
-options.</span></p> 
-  <p> </p> 
-  <table> 
-    <tbody> 
-      <tr> 
-        <td><a 
href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/RFVLQp4BRalXvOKw_jYIqQ?feat=embedwebsite";><img
 
src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1V3VpP3YHN0/SyD3pY2naKI/AAAAAAAADOU/YBHPdRfdPH4/s400/merge_layouts.jpg";
 /></a></td> 
-      </tr> 
-      <tr> 
-        <td>Von <a 
href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/send.to.andreas/OOoUIIdeasAndMockUps?feat=embedwebsite";>OOo
 UI - Ideas and Mock-Ups</a></td> 
-      </tr> 
-    </tbody> 
-  </table> 
-  <p><span lang="EN-US">One way to
-reduce the amount of slide layouts is to offer object placeholders in each
-layout that can be used to insert images, charts, tables and the like where
-usually text content would appear. That would make the need to create slide
-layouts with tables, images or charts separately obsolete.</span></p> 
-  <p> </p>
-  <p><span lang="EN-US">Overall,
-these changes may seem small or less significant compared to other troubles
-such as the inability to create own slide layouts. However, having the goal of
-thinning out the current UI in mind, these redesigns and the sum of all 
forthcoming
-incremental improvements of the work flow will eventually keep us on the right
-track. For details about the ongoing work check out the <a title="Renaissance 
i-Team Wiki" 
href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:Impress";>Renaissance 
i-Team
-Wiki</a>.</span></p> 
-  <p><span lang="EN-US">Best,</span></p> 
-  <p><span lang="EN-US">Andreas</span></p> 
-  <p><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p></p>
-<p>
-<em><a 
href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/project_renaissance_impress_improvements_found";>by
 Andreas Bartel at December 10, 2009 03:50 PM CET</a></em>
-</p>
-<br />
-<hr />
-<br />
-<h3>
-<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader">
-GullFOSS</a>&nbsp;:&nbsp;
-<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x21";>
-New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m67) available</a>
-</h3>
-<p>
-<p><b>Developer Snapshot build</b><b> OOo-Dev DEV300_m67</b> is available for 
download.</p>
-  <p>DEV300 is the development codeline for the upcoming OOo 3.x releases.
-</p> 
-  <p>If you find severe issues within this build please file them to 
OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system <a 
href="http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html"; 
title="OpenOffice.org IssueTracker">IssueTracker</a>.<br /> </p> 
-  <p>Please use the following download page:<br /><a 
href="http://download.openoffice.org/next"; title="Download 
page">http://download.openoffice.org/next</a></p> 
-  <p>Release Notes:<br /><a 
href="http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m67_snapshot.html"; 
title="Release 
Notes">http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m67_snapshot.html</a><br
 /></p> 
-  <p>MD5 checksums:<br /><a title="Page containing MD5 checksums" 
href="http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m67_md5sums.txt";>http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m67_md5sums.txt</a></p></p>
-<p>
-<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x21";>by Joost 
Andrae at December 10, 2009 10:19 AM CET</a></em>
-</p>
-<br />
-<hr />
-<br />
 <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a>
 <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those 
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+<item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=833";>
+       <title>John McCreesh: OpenOffice.org in internet cafes threat to 
Microsoft</title>
+       
<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/12/openoffice-org-in-internet-cafes-threat-to-microsoft/</link>
+       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Another week, another example of how 
Microsoft is being forced to react to the increasing adoption of &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://why.openoffice.org/&quot;&gt;OpenOffice.org&lt;/a&gt; as the 
2010 office software of choice. Clearly worried by OpenOffice.org&amp;#8217;s 
increasing market share, Microsoft has been forced to change its licencing 
terms in an attempt to hold on to its internet cafe business. 
&lt;em&gt;Directions on Microsoft&lt;/em&gt; analyst Paul DeGroot &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10432154-56.html&quot;&gt;admits&lt;/a&gt;
 that Linux and OpenOffice.org are a perfectly viable alternative to Microsoft 
Windows and MS-Office for web cafes.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Internet cafe business is important for Microsoft &amp;#8211; one 
open-source cafe can demonstrate to thousands of customers every year that 
there is a viable alternative to Microsoft&amp;#8217;s products. The freedom 
from licence fees means the cafes can offer better value to customers, flex 
their business in response to customer demand, and don&amp;#8217;t live in 
constant dread of a visit from a licence enforcement 
team.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
+       <dc:date>2010-01-12T09:29:31+00:00</dc:date>
+</item>
 <item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=830";>
        <title>John McCreesh: The blog is mightier than the sword</title>
        
<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/08/the-blog-is-mightier-than-the-sword/</link>
@@ -214,124 +220,5 @@
 &lt;p&gt;What it highlights is that no-one outside Microsoft has a clue what 
is hidden inside their secretive software. It also highlights the importance of 
not using a secret format to store valuable office documents. The safe way to 
store valuable documents is in &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://opendocument.xml.org/&quot;&gt;OpenDocument Format&lt;/a&gt; 
(ODF) &amp;#8211; an ISO approved open standard which isn&amp;#8217;t owned by 
any one company. It&amp;#8217;s the best guarantee against being held to ransom 
one day by a software supplier.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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-       <title>GullFOSS: Project Renaissance Impress Improvements - Found the 
required slide layout yet?</title>
-       
<link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/project_renaissance_impress_improvements_found</link>
-       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;As
-indicated in the previous posts, we have started to redesign a few really basic
-interactions in OpenOffice.org Impress in order to reduce the overall
-complexity of the UI. Currently, we focus on navigation through slides in
-various contexts, the visual appearance of different slide selection states and
-the handling of slide layouts. Today, I want to share some thoughts about a 
different
-way how to assign slide layouts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;The 
Challenge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;At present,
-OpenOffice.org Impress offers five ways how to change the layout of an existing
-slide. However, four of those merely trigger or point to the task pane.
-Consequently, there is only one “real” way how a user can pick and apply a
-slide layout, and there is no way doing that without the task pane. Thinking
-about a common scenario of creating a presentation, adding new slides,
-modifying existing ones, adjusting their layouts, one can imagine that
-switching the task pane on and off over and over again is an unwanted
-interruption. Keeping the task pane permanently alive is of course an option. 
Yet,
-if you want to concentrate more on the content of your work instead on the
-tools at hand, you’d rather prefer to disable the task pane since it consumes
-quite a lot of screen real estate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 
-  &lt;table&gt; 
-    &lt;tbody&gt; 
-      &lt;tr align=&quot;center&quot;&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/nTPy6PHiy_ZhM0l8c9l6pA?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;&lt;img
 
src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1V3VpP3YHN0/SyD3l_bx5FI/AAAAAAAADOM/wukIYT-BE0c/s400/impress_1024_768_slide_layout%20copy.png&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;Von &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/send.to.andreas/OOoUIIdeasAndMockUps?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;OOo
 UI - Ideas and Mock-Ups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-    &lt;/tbody&gt; 
-  &lt;/table&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;In
-addition, there is no way to insert a slide with a favored layout in only one
-step. Currently, the default work flow requires a user to insert a slide first,
-decide if the layout meets the expectations and then assign the preferred
-layout if expectations are not met. From our point of view, there should be a
-more elegant solution to that, too.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Another
-drawback of the current implementation of slide layouts is that their sheer
-number exceeds a practical amount that covers most use cases without getting
-too difficult to work with. Including the vertical layouts OpenOffice.org
-Impress 3.2 Beta offers 27 slide layouts. That is challenging for two
-particular reasons. The 27 slide layouts have to go somewhere in the UI, namely
-into the task pane, where they consume a lot of space. Since they are so many,
-it is often necessary to scroll through the task pane in order to get an
-overview what is available and during search. Picking one is also not always
-easy because in a worst case a user has to look through 27 options and then
-decide which one to pick. That takes time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Possible
-Solutions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Since
-OpenOffice.org Impress already has a dedicated “Presentation” toolbar that
-contains an “Insert Slide” and a “Slide Layout” button, the 
Renaissance i-Team
-started working on a solution that offers a technique to change slide layouts
-without the necessity to constantly use the task pane. Motivated by the visual 
concepts in our prototypes, we will try to add a preview pane into the toolbar 
such that users can directly pick a layout from a drop down toolbox, in the 
context of the task (insert slide, change slide layout). In parallel, we have
-decided to add more value to that particular “Presentation” toolbar by 
reducing
-its functionality to support the most important tasks only (insert slide, 
change slide layout, change slide design, set slide transition, start 
presentation).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;table&gt; 
-    &lt;tbody&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/wQIFYP08obB9HW7DOJmDqQ?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;&lt;img
 
src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1V3VpP3YHN0/SyD3pI0sK4I/AAAAAAAADOQ/cxU-r6zNNvg/s400/insert_slide.jpg&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;Von &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/send.to.andreas/OOoUIIdeasAndMockUps?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;OOo
 UI - Ideas and Mock-Ups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-    &lt;/tbody&gt; 
-  &lt;/table&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;We have
-also considered options to handle slide layouts from various mouse context
-menus. However, this seems to be very challenging from an implementation point 
of
-view. Although we already have some design mock-ups, we need to explore the 
feasibility
-of that solution first on all platforms. So for now, the development team is 
investigating our
-options.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;table&gt; 
-    &lt;tbody&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/RFVLQp4BRalXvOKw_jYIqQ?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;&lt;img
 
src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1V3VpP3YHN0/SyD3pY2naKI/AAAAAAAADOU/YBHPdRfdPH4/s400/merge_layouts.jpg&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;Von &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/send.to.andreas/OOoUIIdeasAndMockUps?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;OOo
 UI - Ideas and Mock-Ups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-    &lt;/tbody&gt; 
-  &lt;/table&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;One way to
-reduce the amount of slide layouts is to offer object placeholders in each
-layout that can be used to insert images, charts, tables and the like where
-usually text content would appear. That would make the need to create slide
-layouts with tables, images or charts separately 
obsolete.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Overall,
-these changes may seem small or less significant compared to other troubles
-such as the inability to create own slide layouts. However, having the goal of
-thinning out the current UI in mind, these redesigns and the sum of all 
forthcoming
-incremental improvements of the work flow will eventually keep us on the right
-track. For details about the ongoing work check out the &lt;a 
title=&quot;Renaissance i-Team Wiki&quot; 
href=&quot;http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:Impress&quot;&gt;Renaissance
 i-Team
-Wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Best,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Andreas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt; 
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
-       <dc:date>2009-12-10T15:50:52+00:00</dc:date>
-       <dc:creator>Andreas Bartel</dc:creator>
-</item>
-<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/5bf8948eda8f47dd">
-       <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m67) 
available</title>
-       <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x21</link>
-       <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Developer Snapshot 
build&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; OOo-Dev DEV300_m67&lt;/b&gt; is available for 
download.&lt;/p&gt;
-  &lt;p&gt;DEV300 is the development codeline for the upcoming OOo 3.x 
releases.
-&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;If you find severe issues within this build please file them to 
OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html&quot; 
title=&quot;OpenOffice.org IssueTracker&quot;&gt;IssueTracker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br 
/&gt; &lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;Please use the following download page:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://download.openoffice.org/next&quot; title=&quot;Download 
page&quot;&gt;http://download.openoffice.org/next&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;Release Notes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m67_snapshot.html&quot;
 title=&quot;Release 
Notes&quot;&gt;http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m67_snapshot.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br
 /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;MD5 checksums:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Page containing MD5 
checksums&quot; 
href=&quot;http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m67_md5sums.txt&quot;&gt;http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m67_md5sums.txt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
-       <dc:date>2009-12-10T10:19:09+00:00</dc:date>
-       <dc:creator>Joost Andrae</dc:creator>
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        <description>Marketing Planet - 
http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description>
 
 <item>
+       <title>John McCreesh: OpenOffice.org in internet cafes threat to 
Microsoft</title>
+       <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=833</guid>
+       
<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/12/openoffice-org-in-internet-cafes-threat-to-microsoft/</link>
+       <description>&lt;p&gt;Another week, another example of how Microsoft is 
being forced to react to the increasing adoption of &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://why.openoffice.org/&quot;&gt;OpenOffice.org&lt;/a&gt; as the 
2010 office software of choice. Clearly worried by OpenOffice.org&amp;#8217;s 
increasing market share, Microsoft has been forced to change its licencing 
terms in an attempt to hold on to its internet cafe business. 
&lt;em&gt;Directions on Microsoft&lt;/em&gt; analyst Paul DeGroot &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10432154-56.html&quot;&gt;admits&lt;/a&gt;
 that Linux and OpenOffice.org are a perfectly viable alternative to Microsoft 
Windows and MS-Office for web cafes.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Internet cafe business is important for Microsoft &amp;#8211; one 
open-source cafe can demonstrate to thousands of customers every year that 
there is a viable alternative to Microsoft&amp;#8217;s products. The freedom 
from licence fees means the cafes can offer better value to customers, flex 
their business in response to customer demand, and don&amp;#8217;t live in 
constant dread of a visit from a licence enforcement 
team.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
+       <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
+</item>
+<item>
        <title>John McCreesh: The blog is mightier than the sword</title>
        <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=830</guid>
        
<link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2010/01/08/the-blog-is-mightier-than-the-sword/</link>
@@ -198,125 +206,6 @@
 &lt;p&gt;What it highlights is that no-one outside Microsoft has a clue what 
is hidden inside their secretive software. It also highlights the importance of 
not using a secret format to store valuable office documents. The safe way to 
store valuable documents is in &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://opendocument.xml.org/&quot;&gt;OpenDocument Format&lt;/a&gt; 
(ODF) &amp;#8211; an ISO approved open standard which isn&amp;#8217;t owned by 
any one company. It&amp;#8217;s the best guarantee against being held to ransom 
one day by a software supplier.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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-<item>
-       <title>GullFOSS: Project Renaissance Impress Improvements - Found the 
required slide layout yet?</title>
-       <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/c1d6aa5a1662f6af</guid>
-       
<link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/project_renaissance_impress_improvements_found</link>
-       <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;As
-indicated in the previous posts, we have started to redesign a few really basic
-interactions in OpenOffice.org Impress in order to reduce the overall
-complexity of the UI. Currently, we focus on navigation through slides in
-various contexts, the visual appearance of different slide selection states and
-the handling of slide layouts. Today, I want to share some thoughts about a 
different
-way how to assign slide layouts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;The 
Challenge.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;At present,
-OpenOffice.org Impress offers five ways how to change the layout of an existing
-slide. However, four of those merely trigger or point to the task pane.
-Consequently, there is only one “real” way how a user can pick and apply a
-slide layout, and there is no way doing that without the task pane. Thinking
-about a common scenario of creating a presentation, adding new slides,
-modifying existing ones, adjusting their layouts, one can imagine that
-switching the task pane on and off over and over again is an unwanted
-interruption. Keeping the task pane permanently alive is of course an option. 
Yet,
-if you want to concentrate more on the content of your work instead on the
-tools at hand, you’d rather prefer to disable the task pane since it consumes
-quite a lot of screen real estate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 
-  &lt;table&gt; 
-    &lt;tbody&gt; 
-      &lt;tr align=&quot;center&quot;&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/nTPy6PHiy_ZhM0l8c9l6pA?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;&lt;img
 
src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1V3VpP3YHN0/SyD3l_bx5FI/AAAAAAAADOM/wukIYT-BE0c/s400/impress_1024_768_slide_layout%20copy.png&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;Von &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/send.to.andreas/OOoUIIdeasAndMockUps?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;OOo
 UI - Ideas and Mock-Ups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-    &lt;/tbody&gt; 
-  &lt;/table&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;In
-addition, there is no way to insert a slide with a favored layout in only one
-step. Currently, the default work flow requires a user to insert a slide first,
-decide if the layout meets the expectations and then assign the preferred
-layout if expectations are not met. From our point of view, there should be a
-more elegant solution to that, too.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Another
-drawback of the current implementation of slide layouts is that their sheer
-number exceeds a practical amount that covers most use cases without getting
-too difficult to work with. Including the vertical layouts OpenOffice.org
-Impress 3.2 Beta offers 27 slide layouts. That is challenging for two
-particular reasons. The 27 slide layouts have to go somewhere in the UI, namely
-into the task pane, where they consume a lot of space. Since they are so many,
-it is often necessary to scroll through the task pane in order to get an
-overview what is available and during search. Picking one is also not always
-easy because in a worst case a user has to look through 27 options and then
-decide which one to pick. That takes time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Possible
-Solutions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Since
-OpenOffice.org Impress already has a dedicated “Presentation” toolbar that
-contains an “Insert Slide” and a “Slide Layout” button, the 
Renaissance i-Team
-started working on a solution that offers a technique to change slide layouts
-without the necessity to constantly use the task pane. Motivated by the visual 
concepts in our prototypes, we will try to add a preview pane into the toolbar 
such that users can directly pick a layout from a drop down toolbox, in the 
context of the task (insert slide, change slide layout). In parallel, we have
-decided to add more value to that particular “Presentation” toolbar by 
reducing
-its functionality to support the most important tasks only (insert slide, 
change slide layout, change slide design, set slide transition, start 
presentation).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;table&gt; 
-    &lt;tbody&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/wQIFYP08obB9HW7DOJmDqQ?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;&lt;img
 
src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1V3VpP3YHN0/SyD3pI0sK4I/AAAAAAAADOQ/cxU-r6zNNvg/s400/insert_slide.jpg&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;Von &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/send.to.andreas/OOoUIIdeasAndMockUps?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;OOo
 UI - Ideas and Mock-Ups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-    &lt;/tbody&gt; 
-  &lt;/table&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;We have
-also considered options to handle slide layouts from various mouse context
-menus. However, this seems to be very challenging from an implementation point 
of
-view. Although we already have some design mock-ups, we need to explore the 
feasibility
-of that solution first on all platforms. So for now, the development team is 
investigating our
-options.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;table&gt; 
-    &lt;tbody&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/lh/photo/RFVLQp4BRalXvOKw_jYIqQ?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;&lt;img
 
src=&quot;http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1V3VpP3YHN0/SyD3pY2naKI/AAAAAAAADOU/YBHPdRfdPH4/s400/merge_layouts.jpg&quot;
 /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-      &lt;tr&gt; 
-        &lt;td&gt;Von &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/send.to.andreas/OOoUIIdeasAndMockUps?feat=embedwebsite&quot;&gt;OOo
 UI - Ideas and Mock-Ups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 
-      &lt;/tr&gt; 
-    &lt;/tbody&gt; 
-  &lt;/table&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;One way to
-reduce the amount of slide layouts is to offer object placeholders in each
-layout that can be used to insert images, charts, tables and the like where
-usually text content would appear. That would make the need to create slide
-layouts with tables, images or charts separately 
obsolete.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Overall,
-these changes may seem small or less significant compared to other troubles
-such as the inability to create own slide layouts. However, having the goal of
-thinning out the current UI in mind, these redesigns and the sum of all 
forthcoming
-incremental improvements of the work flow will eventually keep us on the right
-track. For details about the ongoing work check out the &lt;a 
title=&quot;Renaissance i-Team Wiki&quot; 
href=&quot;http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:Impress&quot;&gt;Renaissance
 i-Team
-Wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Best,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;Andreas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt; 
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
-       <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
-</item>
-<item>
-       <title>GullFOSS: New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m67) 
available</title>
-       <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/5bf8948eda8f47dd</guid>
-       <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_ooo_dev_3_x21</link>
-       <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Developer Snapshot 
build&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt; OOo-Dev DEV300_m67&lt;/b&gt; is available for 
download.&lt;/p&gt;
-  &lt;p&gt;DEV300 is the development codeline for the upcoming OOo 3.x 
releases.
-&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;If you find severe issues within this build please file them to 
OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system &lt;a 
href=&quot;http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html&quot; 
title=&quot;OpenOffice.org IssueTracker&quot;&gt;IssueTracker&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br 
/&gt; &lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;Please use the following download page:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://download.openoffice.org/next&quot; title=&quot;Download 
page&quot;&gt;http://download.openoffice.org/next&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;Release Notes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a 
href=&quot;http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m67_snapshot.html&quot;
 title=&quot;Release 
Notes&quot;&gt;http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m67_snapshot.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br
 /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 
-  &lt;p&gt;MD5 checksums:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Page containing MD5 
checksums&quot; 
href=&quot;http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m67_md5sums.txt&quot;&gt;http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m67_md5sums.txt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
-       <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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