Hi Kingsley, just another follow-up mail. ;-) Did you have the chance to test bibus again?
Have a nice summer! Best Regards, Jan On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:01 -0700, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > Hi Jan, > > Thank you for conscientiously following up, and > for previously explaining that bibus requires > documents to be saved under a new name when > finalizing citations. > > That was news to me. > > I haven't had an opportunity to test it yet, as > I'm waiting on a Czech co-author to get back to me > before I have another go at editing the document. > > Best regards, > Kingsley > > On 05/25/10 20:50, Jan Beyer wrote: > > Hello Kingsley, > > > > just wanted to ask again, whether your trouble with bibus still persists... > > > > Best Regards, > > Jan > > > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > > Betreff: Fwd: Re Bug#580698: bibus: Finalizing hangs Bibus > > Datum: Mon, 10 May 2010 21:09:28 +0200 > > Von: Jan Beyer <j...@beathovn.de> > > An: 580...@bugs.debian.org, "Kingsley G. Morse Jr." <cha...@nas.com> > > > > Hello Kingsley, > > > > Pierre, the upstream author of bibus, replied to my mail (see below). > > In short: > > * The proposed solution does not seem to be a clean one. > > * Could you please cross-check, that you use bibus correctly, i.e. > > when you finalize, you save the resulting document under a *new* > > filename - neither the original one nor "private:stream". So, do not use > > the "Save"-button, but use "Save As..." instead. > > > > Does the last comment "fix" your problem, or should we dig deeper? > > > > Best Regards, > > Jan > > > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > > Betreff: Re Bug#580698: bibus: Finalizing hangs Bibus > > Datum: Mon, 10 May 2010 12:39:39 +0200 > > Von: Pierre Martineau <pierre.martin...@valdorel.fnclcc.fr> > > Antwort an: pierre.martin...@inserm.fr > > An: j...@beathovn.de > > > > > > > > This is unfortunately a bad fix. > > The proposed fix will replace the open OOo document and you will thus > > lose your unfinalized work. > > > > 'private:stream' is working. The problem is usually a bad use. > > The problem is that the document is named 'private:stream' and some > > people try just to hit the "save" command. This will result in a crash. > > Instead you must chose "Save as" and give a new name. > > I never succeeded in finding a way to inactivate the save button > > unfortunately. > > > > The name 'private:stream' is due to a OOo mechanism to create a document > > without saving it to the disk. > > A possibility would be to save the doc in a temporary file, but again we > > will get problems since many people will hit the save button and will > > never find their document since it will be located in some temporary > > directory. > > > > I never found a good solution to this problem. I also never reproduced > > the errors reported by others. > > You can have a look at the following topic > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/bibus-biblio/forums/forum/380178/topic/3532542/index/page/2 > > > > > > > > > > > > You will see that after a lot of discussion, the user finally realized > > that he was not using bibus correctly. > > > > Pierre > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org