Hi James,
On 24 Mar 2007, at 16:19, James Greenidge wrote:
Greetings OOo Engineers!
Using Mac OOo 2.2r3 ppc and it's bullet-proof and looks great so far!
That's great to know.
I have a G3 640meg 900Mhz iceBook and would like to know the best
ways to extend battery power while using Write. I assume OOo
occasionally polls the HD for various reasons, so is there any way
to suspend this so that OOo only accesses the HD on saves to extend
battery life? Can a future version do so? (taking after Mariner
Write which totally loads itself in memory so to curtail HD access
-- I assume OOo can't "split" its suites up so that just Write
loads in memory and not Draw or Calc etc..).
It could be auto save is active on your machine at the moment. You
could take a look at that under "tools" > "options", however I would
personally rather the auto saving than reducing the hard disc activity.
With you low amount of RAM, you will probably find that there is
virtual memory being used. You will be more likely to get a longer
battery life by reducing the screen brightness, and also opening
"Activity Monitor" and quiting any unnecessary processes.
Another useful feature (if I overlooked an existing one):
A "One-Button Direct Print To PDF" toolbar button option. Have to
jump through too many hoops to do it now.
There is already an export to PDF toolbar button. You click it and
choose where to save the PDF. I don't see why you have to jump
through hoops for it.
This is hard to explain: Click on a graphic and contextual menu
pops up with a preferred program to load and manipulate it, like
Graphic Converter. (Of course waiting on displaying QT clips in
Write too...)
Are you talking about the Finder's "Open With..." menu item?
"Force Fondue" mode/button/macro for those importing fonts off web
and need conversion to OOo with minimal techie fuss.
If you take a look at yesterday's meeting log, we are thinking of
doing a profile migration utility. This would be released separately
from the rest of the office suite. It might be possible to add this
to the tool.
An option to the squiggly red line defining misspellings and
Compare Documents inserts would be a "Highlight" mode (I think more
familiar and friendlier to high school/college students today too.)
Please elaborate, I'm not sure I understand what you are looking for
here.
A one-stop pop-up panel for setting up macros. To techies climbing
Everest is easy, but it's chore and turn off for a lot of newbies.
Just a pop-up panel with menu access to all OOo's features which
one could click on to construct macros. (alternative: remember how
old OS-9's AppleScript recorded macros? Easy as pie!)
Please speak to the OpenOffice.org project that deals with this.
Just a cool whim: Versioning documents via color backgrounds. (A
hint by the way screenplays color-code drafts). Starting with deep
red and progressing into the blue range. It's a like a color visual
cue equivalent of filing cabinet folder tabs. Just a whim.
The Mac port will not work on this as it is not on the project aims,
you will probably be able to produce an extension to do this. Or
speak to another OpenOffice.org project. Sorry I don't know which one
would be best.
You may wish to submit a RFE in the issue tracker for these.
A "Cherry On Top Dream" feature for the mavericks among you; a
"Emulate Final Draft" mode. (I know, I know, won't ever be. Sigh.)
Sorry I don't know what you mean here.
This isn't meant to knock anyone, but is the word really getting
out for people to join the OOo development team? I find it awfully
incredible that what all the universities and colleges wordwide
infested with programming-savvy people that only a handful are
working on OOo! It would seem a big ribbon in anyone's IT resume to
be involved in such an effort! But at NYU and NY Tech here in NYC,
hardly anyone even knows OOo exists! This really seems more like a
bad PR problem more than anything else, and I wonder if sending e-
mail flyers out to colleges all over to be posted on their bulletin
boards and going on Mac magazines and radio shows would reap you
all more talent to take the load off your hands. Just my one cent
(don't know what that amounts to in your other nations).
One thing that I have found is that ooo and other open source
software is fairly big in Europe at the moment. In other parts of the
world, it is less well known. I'm a final year student at Heriot-Watt
University in Edinburgh. Most of the student need a job, rather than
volunteering through an open source project. I have spoke to many
employers, and they are more than happy to see potential employees
with experience. Here in the Mac port there are a number of students
here. Many of them are from Lyon, where OOoCon 2006 was held. Maybe
next year we need to hold the conference over in the US?
On the Mac magazines, many Mac sites will often run articles about
us, however they are waiting on us producing the Alpha Aqua release
at the moment. When that come out, we will have a number of reviews
by the media.
[..]
Shaun
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