Re: Sidebar color scheme survey
Am 21.02.2013 16:26, schrieb Regina Henschel: Hi, Xin Li schrieb: [..] So I create a light-weight gray proposal based on the option we discussed before.I use a light grey on the side bar and use a gradient for the section title. And I also align the same light grey to slide thumbnail panel background in Presentation. Because the content area on the center should have the highest priority, the rest elements should have lower priorities, and items with the same priority should be treated with the same way. I have added the latest design(option10) to AOO UX wiki page. Please see the latest design by the link: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals Welcome to share your thoughts and ideas. Thanks. Can you make a little change and draw the color gradient of the subtitles the other way round: light color at the top edge and darker color at the bottom edge? And put the pictures side by side to allow to compare them? I don´t think that would work. The current orientation of the gradient is chosen so that the title bar blends into the panel so that the user can recognize both to belong together. Inverting the gradient would work only when we make the background of the panel dark. Background for the request: When ever I see such gradient in an UI, it assumes, that the light comes from left-top, so that the top and the left parts of the elements are lighter then the right and bottom parts. AOO is not a physics simulation. -Andre
Re: CMS diff: Apache OpenOffice - Deutsche Startseite
Hi, I have committed and published this typo. I also published Rob's clean up of the product page which he had committed a couple of hours ago. Best regards, Oliver. On 24.02.2013 16:29, Piotr wrote: Clone URL (Committers only): https://cms.apache.org/redirect?new=anonymous;action=diff;uri=http://ooo-site.apache.org/de%2Findex.html Piotr Index: trunk/content/de/index.html === --- trunk/content/de/index.html (revision 1449428) +++ trunk/content/de/index.html (working copy) @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ a href=http://projects.testopenoffice.org/native-lang.html;Sprachen/a verfuuml;gbar ist, als auch ein a href=http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php;Open-Source/a-Projekt, in dem viele zumeist ehrenamtliche Mitglieder das Produkt immer weiter verbessern und unterstuuml;tzen. Fuuml;r diese - Gemeinschaft suchen wirstauml;ndig neue Mitglieder: a href=dev/index.htmlBeteiligen/a Sie sich!/p + Gemeinschaft suchen wir stauml;ndig neue Mitglieder: a href=dev/index.htmlBeteiligen/a Sie sich!/p /div div id=ooo-modules
Re: java 7 patch
On 2013/02/25 1:09 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: While here let me remind you that to solve the jdk7 issue you have to look at i121098. The fix is rather trivial but someone else has to do it. Thanks for the pointer. I adjusted the produced classfile format to our baseline as defined in the checks during configure which is Java 5. Even this version was released in 2004 so it is old enough to be upgraded should the need arise. Herbert
Re: Sidebar color scheme survey
Am 25.02.2013 08:03, schrieb Xin Li: Hi Ariel, Thanks for your concern about the issue of color customization. I think we need to **discuss this issue as two parts: 1. Do we need to create the new look and feel for AOO? We always say that the current look and feel for AOO is out of style. We know that AOO just use the system color by default. But if we want AOO looks more modern and fashion, we need to do some change, we need to have new design for default look and feel. You can see that most of the PC software have their own default look and feel, like: MSO, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and so on. I think if the default visual style of software is good, the requirements of change color will be smaller. 2.User also can change to other colors if we have default new look and feel. We create new look and feel does not mean that we forbid user change color. User can also change color if they don't like the default look and feel. And I think the reasonable way is user can change the whole interface with sidebar to other colors. I will try this week to find some time to play with the colors. On Windows we are not so far away from the system colors, anyway. Maybe it is good enough to use the cleaner look (not so many lines and boxes and title bars as the old (Impress) taskpanel) together with the system colors. Besides, the system colors still offer some choice. And we can modify them a little bit like in the Impress slide sorter. Its selection color is based on the system selection color but is made a little brighter (I think). There are a lot of knobs to turn. Lets see what I can do. -Andre Thanks. 2013/2/21 Ariel Constenla-Haile arie...@apache.org Hi Xin Li, On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 04:20:25PM +0800, Xin Li wrote: Hi all, Thanks for your votes and your feedback. I have summarized all votes from Facebook and mail list. The result is : A1:8A2:7A3:6 B1:8B2:8B3:10 C1:3C2:2C3:5 For control style, it seems that many user prefer proposal B (Simple line separator). As Kevin's suggestion,noise reduction and consistency would be best. So separators between clusters may be better. So we use separators between clusters to separate the buttons of cluster. For content panel color, it seems that there no obvious winner. I would like to share my thoughts on the visual style because it is already relate to color topic when we do the side bar migration. As we discussed before, the current grey color used in AOO is dark and looks out of style. We should do some light-weight change in AOO. If you see something gray in the user interface, it is because your system uses that color for painting that particular object. If a user doesn't like gray, s/he has to simply switch the desktop theme. Moving away from the system's style settings only renders the sidebar as something that does not fit with the rest of the application/desktop: http://people.apache.org/~arielch/images/sidebar/ These screen shots are from different GTK themes, the sidebar is obviously not following the rest of the application (the Navigator is side-by-side to show this fact). Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
Re: Sidebar color scheme survey
KG01 - see comments inline. On Feb 25, 2013, at 4:55 PM, Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com wrote: Am 21.02.2013 16:26, schrieb Regina Henschel: Hi, Xin Li schrieb: [..] So I create a light-weight gray proposal based on the option we discussed before.I use a light grey on the side bar and use a gradient for the section title. And I also align the same light grey to slide thumbnail panel background in Presentation. Because the content area on the center should have the highest priority, the rest elements should have lower priorities, and items with the same priority should be treated with the same way. I have added the latest design(option10) to AOO UX wiki page. Please see the latest design by the link: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_User_Interface_Design_Proposals#Task_Pane_Content_Panel_-_UX_Design_propoals Welcome to share your thoughts and ideas. Thanks. Can you make a little change and draw the color gradient of the subtitles the other way round: light color at the top edge and darker color at the bottom edge? And put the pictures side by side to allow to compare them? I don´t think that would work. The current orientation of the gradient is chosen so that the title bar blends into the panel so that the user can recognize both to belong together. Inverting the gradient would work only when we make the background of the panel dark. KG01 - exactly, the goal is to differentiate the section titles from each other while reinforcing the association between section header and it's content. Who said design was easy :) other solutions could be explored if the gradient is not ideal. Background for the request: When ever I see such gradient in an UI, it assumes, that the light comes from left-top, so that the top and the left parts of the elements are lighter then the right and bottom parts. AOO is not a physics simulation. -Andre
Re: [serf-dev] Serf 1.2.0 has been released
On 2/22/13 7:59 PM, Greg Stein wrote: Hi all, I'm pleased to announce the serf 1.2.0 release! This release contains many robustness fixes, especially around flaky and problematic connections. The CHANGES file is located at: http://serf.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.2.0/CHANGES Download details are at: http://code.google.com/p/serf/downloads/list Direct links: http://serf.googlecode.com/files/serf-1.2.0.tar.bz2 SHA1: 30b29bd9214d50887abcc20cf82096aaaf5d1d61 http://serf.googlecode.com/files/serf-1.2.0.zip SHA1: 07112bb7f715e1ec472f190c7b3051189969bba7 Please report any problems to serf-...@googlegroups.com ok I already replied on the serf-dev mailing list. Thnaks agian for notifying us form the update. We will update our dependencies to the new serf version. I have created issue https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121823 Thanks Juergen
Re: 4.0 and loss of backward compatibility for extensions with toolbar
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/21/13 10:05 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:22:34AM +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: The first step should be a simple check if an Addons.xcu is contained at all. Something like unzip -l extension | grep Addons.xcu should be enough. The second step if an Addons.xcu is contained is to check for the node oor:name=OfficeToolBar entry. Only if this entry exists the Addons.xcu the extension has to be updated. This might be error prone, because the file can have any name, all it matters is the media type in the META-INF manifest and the OO registry package and name in the file itself. While it's highly rare to find a lala.lala, I've found an addons.xcu (in lowercase). No wonder there is no OfficeToolBar in this particular extension, but the extension does not work in AOO 4.0 due to API changes (what shows that the whole discussion centered on the schema change is full of ungrounded assumptions, and lack of knowledge on the subject). ignore case is probably a good idea, a complete different name is probably rather seldom. But from a technical point of view you are correct. We don't need exact data but it would be nice to get an impression how often it is used. Juergen 242 extensions contain addons.xcu stensioni (total: 1065 releases), 430 estensions don't (total: 1660 releases). Do you want us to check how many contain OfficeToolBar? If you could run a short script to check it, it would be very useful for us to make a final decision. Officetoolbar used within 137 extensions (553 releases). Maybe you can also provide some numbers about their downloads. Only th extensions that contain an Addons.xcu with OfficeToolBar That's not really trivial, but it would be easier to figure out how many among top 50 contain Addons.xcu with OfficeToolBar. Would it make the trick? If not I'll work on how to compute those numbers. Let me know, Roberto It would also be interesting to know the last time the extension was updated; besides that expecting unmaintained extensions to work on a new major release might not be plausible, the extension is likely not be adapted to any change if it is unmaintained, no matter how popular it is (example: the most popular, Oracle PDF Import Extension, Downloads: Week: 12,706, unmaintained since Dec. 2010, seems to be broken - according to the first three comments). Regards -- This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. It may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any attachment(s) from your system. Thank you.
Re: 4.0 and loss of backward compatibility for extensions with toolbar
On 2/25/13 4:36 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/21/13 10:05 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 09:22:34AM +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: The first step should be a simple check if an Addons.xcu is contained at all. Something like unzip -l extension | grep Addons.xcu should be enough. The second step if an Addons.xcu is contained is to check for the node oor:name=OfficeToolBar entry. Only if this entry exists the Addons.xcu the extension has to be updated. This might be error prone, because the file can have any name, all it matters is the media type in the META-INF manifest and the OO registry package and name in the file itself. While it's highly rare to find a lala.lala, I've found an addons.xcu (in lowercase). No wonder there is no OfficeToolBar in this particular extension, but the extension does not work in AOO 4.0 due to API changes (what shows that the whole discussion centered on the schema change is full of ungrounded assumptions, and lack of knowledge on the subject). ignore case is probably a good idea, a complete different name is probably rather seldom. But from a technical point of view you are correct. We don't need exact data but it would be nice to get an impression how often it is used. it would definitely help to get an overview about which extension we are talking. Based on this info we could contact the owners and can inform them about the change. Juergen Juergen 242 extensions contain addons.xcu stensioni (total: 1065 releases), 430 estensions don't (total: 1660 releases). Do you want us to check how many contain OfficeToolBar? If you could run a short script to check it, it would be very useful for us to make a final decision. Officetoolbar used within 137 extensions (553 releases). Maybe you can also provide some numbers about their downloads. Only th extensions that contain an Addons.xcu with OfficeToolBar That's not really trivial, but it would be easier to figure out how many among top 50 contain Addons.xcu with OfficeToolBar. Would it make the trick? If not I'll work on how to compute those numbers. Let me know, Roberto It would also be interesting to know the last time the extension was updated; besides that expecting unmaintained extensions to work on a new major release might not be plausible, the extension is likely not be adapted to any change if it is unmaintained, no matter how popular it is (example: the most popular, Oracle PDF Import Extension, Downloads: Week: 12,706, unmaintained since Dec. 2010, seems to be broken - according to the first three comments). Regards
Proposal: pr...@openoffice.apache.org alias
Currently we point press inquires to priv...@openoffice.apache.org. I think it would be more professional to use an address like pr...@openoffice.apache.org or even me...@openoffice.apache.org. But I don't think we want to maintain another mailing list. So, if there are no concerns, I'd like to request an mailing address alias, so emails directed to pr...@openoffice.apache.org get sent to priv...@openoffice.apache.org. -Rob
Re: Proposal: pr...@openoffice.apache.org alias
its a good idea Sylvain denis Le 25 févr. 2013 19:15, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org a écrit : Currently we point press inquires to priv...@openoffice.apache.org. I think it would be more professional to use an address like pr...@openoffice.apache.org or even me...@openoffice.apache.org. But I don't think we want to maintain another mailing list. So, if there are no concerns, I'd like to request an mailing address alias, so emails directed to pr...@openoffice.apache.org get sent to priv...@openoffice.apache.org. -Rob
Re: Proposal: pr...@openoffice.apache.org alias
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Currently we point press inquires to priv...@openoffice.apache.org. I think it would be more professional to use an address like pr...@openoffice.apache.org or even me...@openoffice.apache.org. But I don't think we want to maintain another mailing list. So, if there are no concerns, I'd like to request an mailing address alias, so emails directed to pr...@openoffice.apache.org get sent to priv...@openoffice.apache.org. +1 -Rob
Draft blog post: Call for Documentation Volunteers
https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_documentation_volunteers
Re: Draft blog post: Call for Documentation Volunteers
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_documentation_volunteers Looks good. Did you want to say something about testing the new release by writing documentation with it? Don
Re: Draft blog post: Call for Documentation Volunteers
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_documentation_volunteers Looks good. Did you want to say something about testing the new release by writing documentation with it? The actual writing for the new User Guides will be using the wiki. But perhaps the detailed walk-through of the product needed to document every dialog, etc., helps with the test coverage? -Rob Don
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
On 1) Can I suggest we make the graphic change maybe 3-5 days before DFD. Make an earlier blog post letting people know its coming up. We should go viral before the day. I could create a small page about AOO and DFD and what it means to us. Much like the download page, we can assign the social platform meta-data image and text to the one we're promoting AOO with. We could then link it to the early and day-of blog posts. - - - - - PAGE META DATA [Image=AOO-DFD-Doodle.png] [Title=Apache OpenOffice celebrates DFD, learn more here.] [Text=AOO is committed to support ODF standards so that everyone can access their information independent of the tools and suites they use. Learn more here.] IN TYPICAL OO.org PAGE TEMPLATE [Short brief about what it means to us. Benefits to society, talk about owning your information and having the freedom to move to other office suites and OS/Technology platforms. Talk about how we support multiple platforms for that freedom. Windows to Linux to OS X] Let your friends know its document freedom day on March 27th: [Share Facebook] [Share Twitter] [Share Google+] Are you ready to be free? [Download Apache OpenOffice Today! possibly href'd image] - - - - - Samer On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is Sunshine Week in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. Anyone interested in helping? Regards, -Rob
Re: Document Freedom Day 2013 -- March 27
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Samer Mansour samer...@gmail.com wrote: On 1) Can I suggest we make the graphic change maybe 3-5 days before DFD. Make an earlier blog post letting people know its coming up. We should go viral before the day. I agree. Even though the actual even is on a specific day we'll get more notice if we start a few days ahead of time. I could create a small page about AOO and DFD and what it means to us. Much like the download page, we can assign the social platform meta-data image and text to the one we're promoting AOO with. We could then link it to the early and day-of blog posts. So the idea would be that visitors could like or share that page to their social network? I like that idea. Anything that we can do to turn it into a two-way engagement/sharing will be more effective than simply broadcasting information in a single direction. For example, with IMLD, the actual blog post did not get much of a response, but a simple Facebook post asking the question How do you say 'free software' in your Mother Language? got 45 comments, 44 likes, and 2 shares. - - - - - PAGE META DATA [Image=AOO-DFD-Doodle.png] [Title=Apache OpenOffice celebrates DFD, learn more here.] [Text=AOO is committed to support ODF standards so that everyone can access their information independent of the tools and suites they use. Learn more here.] IN TYPICAL OO.org PAGE TEMPLATE [Short brief about what it means to us. Benefits to society, talk about owning your information and having the freedom to move to other office suites and OS/Technology platforms. Talk about how we support multiple platforms for that freedom. Windows to Linux to OS X] Let your friends know its document freedom day on March 27th: [Share Facebook] [Share Twitter] [Share Google+] Are you ready to be free? [Download Apache OpenOffice Today! possibly href'd image] - - - - - Liberate your documents is a common DFD expression we could work with.. -Rob Samer On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Document Freedom Day (DFD) promotes the use of open standards and interoperability in documents. OpenOffice has been a core part of DFD since it first started in 2008. Our community's support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format is broad: in the product of course, but also via our personal use, and via the efforts of our volunteers in OASIS maintaining the standard, and at Plugfests improving interoperability. I'd like to see us celebrate Document Freedom Day. I think we can do something similar do what we did for International Mother Language Day: Using social media and our website. We can reach nearly a million people when we do this, so it is very effective. To make this happen we need a few things to happen before, say March 10th: 1) An adapted logo for the website, something thematic. a) The hi-res version of the current logo is here: http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO-logo-hires.jpg b) For ideas, the official DFD art work is here: http://documentfreedom.org/artwork.en.html c) The final website logo should be 100px high, with width of 200-400px. d) If we can avoid putting the date in the logo we can reuse it in future years as well. 2) A blog post and/or press release. The week prior to DFD is Sunshine Week in the US, and is focused on open government (http://www.sunshineweek.org/). So I might try to write up something that connects the two, i.e., how the use of open standards helps promote open government. 3) Use our social media accounts to promote DFD on the day. Anyone interested in helping? Regards, -Rob
Did we get any good photographs at Fosdem?
Did we get any good photographs at Fosdem? Or ApacheConEU? I think our website would benefit greatly from some visual elements. For example, our main get involved page: http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html This is crying out for a photo of a volunteer or group of volunteers. Do we have anything suitable? -Rob
Re: My wish!
Hello Rob! Not sure if my last email made it? Anyways, my best attempt in answering some questions I would like to see the ability to type in syllabics in the word processor, although we wouldn't perform any financial functions, it would be good to be able to either type basic syllabics in Calc, or copy and paste the text into Calc and any text based option within Draw, Impress, not really necessary for Base, but storing any text in the fields can be in syllabics. The function of typing in syllabics would mainly be in word processing. If the focus of typing in syllabics were to be in in Writer, could that be available in all platforms? This truly will be a digital revolution for Inuktitut typing if this can be done! A remarkable achievement it will be, to instantly type in Inuktitut! And right now, my main focus is to be able to take that VB code and somehow (I'm almost completely blind in C) and duplicate it for the standards of Open Office. I will subscribe to the mailing lists in your suggestions, Once again, I thank you for all the advice and appreciate all the work that has been done! Take care Andrew On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:28 PM, atagak xplornet.ca ata...@xplornet.ca wrote: Good afternoon everyone! My names is Andrew Tagak Jr., I'm an Inuk (Eskimo) from Nunavut, Canada, living in a small city by the name of Iqaluit (Many Fish). Hello Andrew, I am Rob Weir, one of the volunteers on the Apache OpenOffice project. I'm in the US, in Massachusetts. I always wanted to visit Nunavut and see the northern lights. Welcome to the Dev mailing list. This is a public mailing list, so as a subscriber everything you send gets sent to other subscribers, and you also receive any note that someone else sends, like this note. I have over the years developed small programs in Visual Basic. One of the programs I have developed is a transliterator that instantly converts Roman Orthography into Inuktitut Syllabics. I developed the program to ensure that the proper use of the orthography converts seamlessly in syllabics without having to learn a mapped keyboard to type, or to avoid downloading drivers to be installed on computers. Cool. My wish is to have such a program function in Open Office! That would be a thrill to be able to say a tiny little program like the transliterator can have a huge impact on all Inuktitut speaking and typing users across the globe! It would maximize technology to it's fullest capacity :) Yes, I could see how this would be very useful. I'm also developing the same program for other Aboriginal languages (Cree, Ojibwe, Cherokee and Dene) Excellent. Couple questions, 1 - would it be difficult to integrate VB into C? Or, convert vb language into the Open Office language? A few things to think about: a) Do you want the tool to work in all editors (Writer, Calc and Impress?) or just in the word processor? b) What about platforms? OpenOffice is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. If you want a solution that works on all the OpenOffice applications, and cross-platform, then that will probably lead you away from Visual Basic and toward either OpenOffice Basic or C/C++. and 2 - If it is possible, any chance I can get any support or learning tutors to help with the wish I have? We have many volunteers who are far more knowledgeable about the extension mechanisms in OpenOffice. Hopefully that can give you some good ideas. Note: we have two other mailing lists, with less traffic, that are also relevant to your ideas. We have a localization mailing list, which you can subscribe by sending a note to: l10n-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org And we also have a list dedicated to writing OpenOffice extensions: api-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org If you need some samples they are found on my site; http://www.tagak.net I have found an Add-on developed by Alex Beneson that transliterates other languages, and I have contributed Inuktitut to that particular add-on he developed; Are there others who might be interested in enabling OpenOffice to work better with Aboriginal languages? We have an active localization effort for OpenOffice. So if you know anyone who would be interested in seeing the OpenOffice user interface translated into Inuktitut syllabics, and bundled with an Inuktitut spell checker, we can help you get started. Regards, -Rob http://www.benya.com/transliterator/ I would like that everyone for any support! Take care Andrew Tagak Jr.
Re: Did we get any good photographs at Fosdem?
Hey Rob, Being over 1000km away from the nearest major city, I can't say I have have photos of events or conferences, I hope to one day attend some. But I do have a lot of nature type photos you can use? http://www.facebook.com/angtags feel free to use any, there are lot's of our tiny little city :) Take care Andrew On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Did we get any good photographs at Fosdem? Or ApacheConEU? I think our website would benefit greatly from some visual elements. For example, our main get involved page: http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html This is crying out for a photo of a volunteer or group of volunteers. Do we have anything suitable? -Rob
Re: Proposal: pr...@openoffice.apache.org alias
2013/2/25 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org Currently we point press inquires to priv...@openoffice.apache.org. I think it would be more professional to use an address like pr...@openoffice.apache.org or even me...@openoffice.apache.org. But I don't think we want to maintain another mailing list. So, if there are no concerns, I'd like to request an mailing address alias, so emails directed to pr...@openoffice.apache.org get sent to priv...@openoffice.apache.org. -Rob +1. It's a good idea Ricardo
Re: Draft blog post: Call for Documentation Volunteers
2013/2/25 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_documentation_volunteers Thanks for this! It looks good: short and to the point. Regards Ricardo
Re: Did we get any good photographs at Fosdem?
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Did we get any good photographs at Fosdem? Or ApacheConEU? I think our website would benefit greatly from some visual elements. For example, our main get involved page: http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html This is crying out for a photo of a volunteer or group of volunteers. Do we have anything suitable? -Rob I believe the photos we have are linked from the Events page... http://openoffice.apache.org/events.html However, the photos are not identified very well...I suppose we could nominate some? I think it would be a good idea to show actual *people*. :) -- MzK Achieving happiness requires the right combination of Zen and Zin.
RE: Draft blog post: Call for Documentation Volunteers
+1 I admire these introductions. They strike me as very inviting. - Dennis -Original Message- From: RGB ES [mailto:rgb.m...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 13:56 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Draft blog post: Call for Documentation Volunteers 2013/2/25 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_documentation_volunteers Thanks for this! It looks good: short and to the point. Regards Ricardo
Re: Draft blog post: Call for Documentation Volunteers
On Feb 25, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_documentation_volunteers Looks good. Did you want to say something about testing the new release by writing documentation with it? The actual writing for the new User Guides will be using the wiki. But perhaps the detailed walk-through of the product needed to document every dialog, etc., helps with the test coverage? Nice post. One question for clarification. Which Wiki? I think we all probably agree that it is the MWiki, and I think we can describe why to choose one vs the other. MWiki is for documentation that is permanent while CWiki is for planning that is transitory - we'll plan an action but it is not really documentation. Regards, Dave -Rob Don
Re: Did we get any good photographs at Fosdem?
On 25/02/2013 Rob Weir wrote: Did we get any good photographs at Fosdem? Or ApacheConEU? Mine (ApacheCon EU and FOSDEM) are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/89947020@N07/sets/72157631985453666/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/89947020@N07/sets/72157632699639150/ I wouldn't say they qualify as good, but they might be usable in some contexts (needless to say, feel free to reuse them in any suitable way). Regards, Andrea.
Re: My wish!
On 2/25/13 10:03 PM, atagak xplornet.ca wrote: Hello Rob! Not sure if my last email made it? Anyways, my best attempt in answering some questions I would like to see the ability to type in syllabics in the word processor, although we wouldn't perform any financial functions, it would be good to be able to either type basic syllabics in Calc, or copy and paste the text into Calc and any text based option within Draw, Impress, not really necessary for Base, but storing any text in the fields can be in syllabics. The function of typing in syllabics would mainly be in word processing. If the focus of typing in syllabics were to be in in Writer, could that be available in all platforms? This truly will be a digital revolution for Inuktitut typing if this can be done! A remarkable achievement it will be, to instantly type in Inuktitut! And right now, my main focus is to be able to take that VB code and somehow (I'm almost completely blind in C) and duplicate it for the standards of Open Office. just a quick addition, if it becomes an extension later it could be implemented in Java as well. But implemented as extension or directly integrated i the core depends on some further investigation. It sounds very interesting and we are happy if we can support you to the benefit of all Inuktitut speaking people. I will be on vacation for 1 week and when I am back I will try to take a closer look on your solution to understand it better ... Juergen I will subscribe to the mailing lists in your suggestions, Once again, I thank you for all the advice and appreciate all the work that has been done! Take care Andrew On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:28 PM, atagak xplornet.ca ata...@xplornet.ca wrote: Good afternoon everyone! My names is Andrew Tagak Jr., I'm an Inuk (Eskimo) from Nunavut, Canada, living in a small city by the name of Iqaluit (Many Fish). Hello Andrew, I am Rob Weir, one of the volunteers on the Apache OpenOffice project. I'm in the US, in Massachusetts. I always wanted to visit Nunavut and see the northern lights. Welcome to the Dev mailing list. This is a public mailing list, so as a subscriber everything you send gets sent to other subscribers, and you also receive any note that someone else sends, like this note. I have over the years developed small programs in Visual Basic. One of the programs I have developed is a transliterator that instantly converts Roman Orthography into Inuktitut Syllabics. I developed the program to ensure that the proper use of the orthography converts seamlessly in syllabics without having to learn a mapped keyboard to type, or to avoid downloading drivers to be installed on computers. Cool. My wish is to have such a program function in Open Office! That would be a thrill to be able to say a tiny little program like the transliterator can have a huge impact on all Inuktitut speaking and typing users across the globe! It would maximize technology to it's fullest capacity :) Yes, I could see how this would be very useful. I'm also developing the same program for other Aboriginal languages (Cree, Ojibwe, Cherokee and Dene) Excellent. Couple questions, 1 - would it be difficult to integrate VB into C? Or, convert vb language into the Open Office language? A few things to think about: a) Do you want the tool to work in all editors (Writer, Calc and Impress?) or just in the word processor? b) What about platforms? OpenOffice is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. If you want a solution that works on all the OpenOffice applications, and cross-platform, then that will probably lead you away from Visual Basic and toward either OpenOffice Basic or C/C++. and 2 - If it is possible, any chance I can get any support or learning tutors to help with the wish I have? We have many volunteers who are far more knowledgeable about the extension mechanisms in OpenOffice. Hopefully that can give you some good ideas. Note: we have two other mailing lists, with less traffic, that are also relevant to your ideas. We have a localization mailing list, which you can subscribe by sending a note to: l10n-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org And we also have a list dedicated to writing OpenOffice extensions: api-subscr...@openoffice.apache.org If you need some samples they are found on my site; http://www.tagak.net I have found an Add-on developed by Alex Beneson that transliterates other languages, and I have contributed Inuktitut to that particular add-on he developed; Are there others who might be interested in enabling OpenOffice to work better with Aboriginal languages? We have an active localization effort for OpenOffice. So if you know anyone who would be interested in seeing the OpenOffice user interface translated into Inuktitut syllabics, and bundled with an Inuktitut spell
Re: Proposal: pr...@openoffice.apache.org alias
On 2/25/13 7:15 PM, Rob Weir wrote: Currently we point press inquires to priv...@openoffice.apache.org. I think it would be more professional to use an address like pr...@openoffice.apache.org or even me...@openoffice.apache.org. But I don't think we want to maintain another mailing list. So, if there are no concerns, I'd like to request an mailing address alias, so emails directed to pr...@openoffice.apache.org get sent to priv...@openoffice.apache.org. +1 Juergen
