Hmmmm ... it didn't strike me until today:
What benefits or "special features" does one receive by using Mozilla with Ooo 1.9 680 mxx? I was thinking, maybe I don't need to configure --with-mozilla
There are three features in OOo that use mozilla:
- address book
Any address book supported by mozilla (mozilla's own, LDAP, possibly others) can be used as address data source in OOo (e.g. for mail merges). For this feature OOo includes a private copy of parts of mozilla. This feature could be disabled (IIRC there is a separate --disable-mozab configure flag for this)
- digital signatures
This feature uses cryptographic functionality from the mozilla nss library. The feature can't be completely disabled. IIRC this implies that --disable-mozilla to build without any mozilla pieces does not work any more. (Disclaimer: This may have changed since I last checked)
- LDAP user data
OpenOffice.org can fetch some of the data about the current user (found in Tools-Options-OpenOfffice.org-User Data; usable as document fields, eg. in letter templates) from a LDAP directory. This feature uses the LDAP-SDK that is part of mozilla. Alternatively this feature can be built, completely without mozilla, to use openldap system libraries, using --with-openldap.
Also, does anyone know if the 1.9 680 mxx builds of OOo give us LDAP capabilities (I think I read somewhere that OOo 2.x plans to have LDAP features).
In $(prefix)/share/registry/data/org/openoffice/, there is a sample file, which you have to adapt to your LDAP environment and install as LDAP.xcu in the same directory (or in $HOME/.openoffice*/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/ for a single user - but that makes only limited sense) to enable the feature. For the full detail see <http://specs.openoffice.org/installation/system_integration/ldap_userprofile.sxw>.
Ciao, J�rg
-- Joerg Barfurth Sun Microsystems - Desktop - Hamburg >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> using std::disclaimer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenOffice.org Configuration http://util.openoffice.org
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