Re: [libreoffice-users] mongodb and base

2014-11-22 Thread Jim Seymour
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:31:39 -0500
Eric e...@esjworks.com wrote:

[snip]
 
 not yet, I just detest sql and am campaigning to relegate it to
 COBOL status. (something you never admit to knowing or using :)

Good luck with that.  Probably has less chance of success than my
Quixotic campaigns to get the U.S. to switch to the metric system,
to get Michiganians to stop referring to themselves as
Michiganders, to get businesses to stop appending those inane
confidentiality/proprietary warnings to emailo and to make the display
of Baby On Board signs an offence punishable by time in the
stocks :).

As an aside: I think SQL rocks.

Regards,
Jim
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Comments on pdf file size in 4.4 alpha; and a new bug?

2014-11-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
I think there might be a few different things going on there.

Firstly i have no idea how the devs think or work.  Clearly they think very
differently from most users.  What seems obvious and makes sense to us is
clearly 'wrong'.

To me, i'd agree with you, that if it's annoying in one branch and still
exists in the next then it's likely to be annoying in that branch too.
Clearly the devs don't think like that at all.  Trying to argue the point
is likely to get you in trouble here.  It's one of the reasons i am under
moderation or even chucked off mailing lists here.


What normal users, like us, tend to think of as bugs or stability issues is
often technically called something else.  So far i can only think of 5 but
i'm sure there are more.  The most frequent type of 'bug' reported by
normal users is often really a broken feature.  That is very different
from what the devs would call a bug, as far as i can make out.  It's
certainly NOT a stability issue.  Very few bugs are anything to do with
stability.  So when something is broken we have to try to figure out
whether the devs would call it;
1.  something that behaves differently from certain other programs (but the
LO way might well be better)
2.  something behaving weirdly
3.  something that changed behaviour
4.  a broken feature/thing
5.  a bug
or
6.  a bug causing a stability issue

Sometimes there is no practical difference between 1 and 2 or it might be
just a difference of opinion, ie immensely long and argumentative threads.

We rarely discuss items such as 3 because we mostly just adapt or new
people are unaware it used to be any different.  Sometimes it's intriguing
or interesting.  Occasionally a change in behaviour only happens to 1
person and indicates weird things going wrong which all gets fixed by
renaming the User Profile.  More usually it's a positive thing that a few
people find annoying but most people either don't care or find it an
improvement.  (like when some obscure graphs got smoothed out in a better
way that gave better results and looked nicer (i think in 3.4.0)).

Mostly what we get here is 4.  A long running feature/thing suddenly stops
working in a new branch.  We try renaming the User Profile jic it's that
(despite it seeming really unlikely) and post a bug-report only to find we
gets loads of aggro from devs telling us to fix it ourselves or that
individuals should pay to get it fixed.  Sometimes it gets all bitter and
unnecessary blaming individuals who are all trying to do a good job but
that sometimes leads to unexpected complications out in the wild.  Maybe
we should post these as feature requests and pretend that it's new in
order to avoid hurting anyone's feelings?

Very occasionally we get a real 5 but it's actually quite unusual, and
quite difficult to spot since everything else is also called by the same
name by most normal users.

We seem to get a real 6 much more often than a real 5 but then it turns out
to be a Java or other 3rd party issue.  We still quite often help fix it.
I think one time it turned out to be a wobbly graphics card and another
time a defective fan but usually it's just a case or trying a different
version of either Java or LibreOffice.


Unfortunately pretty much all those things can only be reported by posting
a bug-report.  Feature requests use the bug-reporting systems.  In that
system one of the drop-downs has an option labelled feature request.  We
can often help with most of them, especially 1 and 2 and even 6 but the
only route to escalate problems is to post a bug-report.  I tried liaising
with other mailing lists to see if they could help with other issues but it
earned me a bad reputation so i wouldn't advise it!


Now is the ideal time to take the 4.4.0 for a test-drive.  It's the number
1 time that the most devs are looking for problems in the new branch.  It's
also THE best time to get stuff fixed.  New stuff is still fresh in
people's minds so they might instinctively put their finger right on the
source of the problem even if the code seems fine to everyone else.

So, please do take the 4.4.0 for a test-drive now and post bug-reports
about whatever you find (maybe ask here first maybe) even if it doesn't
really seem to be a bug and seems to fall into one of the other categories
i made-up on the spot there or some other not-quite-a-bug-really type
category.

This is also a good time to join in with the QA team to help do routine
office type work to help make sure the different bugs are all neatly filed
and stuff so that the devs can focus on the coding rather than getting
bogged won with filing and routine stuff.
Regards from
Tom :)





On 21 November 2014 20:07, CVAlkan fobe...@enteract.com wrote:

 Hi:

 I'm using 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04 with a parallel installation of LibreOffice
 Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha2+
 Build ID: d273a60bfdbf9bb7623bed38667ec0647753157c - TinderBox:
 Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@46-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2014-11-20_03:05:21 -
 Locale: en_US

 I installed 

[libreoffice-users] Re: Comments on pdf file size in 4.4 alpha; and a new bug?

2014-11-22 Thread V Stuart Foote
@Tom, *,

Nicely put.  Thanks!

@CVAlkan, *,

The transparency issues with PDF export in the 4.3 branch,  is a reported in
bugzilla, 
fdo#84294 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84294  
fdo#83963 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83963  

I believe frame transparency is fixed with current 4.4.0.0 builds (rc2,
beta1) and in the dailys of master, but transparent text fields is not yet
correct.  Testing appreciated.

Stuart

-=ref=-
 fdo#80468 and fdo#81223




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Re: [libreoffice-users] mongodb and base

2014-11-22 Thread Rob Jasper
Nice list of things to work on :-))
Wile in the metric system, you might add paper sizes (A4, A3, etc.) and the 
perforation of paper..

I used to work for Bell Labs, and they had as standard (!) perforation the US 3 
+ the US 4 holes, and we just added Europe's 4 holes, so in total there were 11 
holes...


Op 22 nov. 2014, om 15:15 heeft Jim Seymour het volgende geschreven:

 On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:31:39 -0500
 Eric e...@esjworks.com wrote:
 
 [snip]
 
 not yet, I just detest sql and am campaigning to relegate it to
 COBOL status. (something you never admit to knowing or using :)
 
 Good luck with that.  Probably has less chance of success than my
 Quixotic campaigns to get the U.S. to switch to the metric system,
 to get Michiganians to stop referring to themselves as
 Michiganders, to get businesses to stop appending those inane
 confidentiality/proprietary warnings to emailo and to make the display
 of Baby On Board signs an offence punishable by time in the
 stocks :).
 
 As an aside: I think SQL rocks.
 
 Regards,
 Jim
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[libreoffice-users] Re: Comments on pdf file size in 4.4 alpha; and a new bug?

2014-11-22 Thread V Stuart Foote
Oops, correct that last...  s/rc2/alpha2/  we're not that far along with the
4.4 branch.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] mongodb and base

2014-11-22 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 22/11/2014 16:34, Rob Jasper a écrit :
 
 I used to work for Bell Labs, and they had as standard (!)
 perforation the US 3 + the US 4 holes, and we just added Europe's 4
 holes, so in total there were 11 holes...

hole-y cow!

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Report in Base not executed

2014-11-22 Thread Harvey Nimmo

On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 10:40 +, Tom Davies wrote:
 Hi :)
 Crashing is usually due to some 3rd party Extension or some weird tangle of
 settings in the User Profile.  Renaming the User Profile is usually fairly
 quick and easy, once you've figured it out first time
 https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
 
 The 2nd most likely cause has tended to be Java issues.  if you are using
 the internal back-end on Base or using Accessibility tools such as
 screen-readers then there might not be much you can do except to maybe
 consider upgrading Java or finding a more stable version of Java.  The rest
 of us can switch off Java dependence temporarily;
 Tools - Options - Advanced
 and if LibreOffice grumbles then switch it back on again.  Most people find
 they can live without Java in LibreOffice and maybe even uninstall it.
 
 
 Generally it is always best to stick with the distro-specific tweaked
 versions of almost all software.  Going outside of that often requires
 quite a bit of 'proper' linuxy experience and knowledge.  It's not usually
 a good idea for a pointclick user like myself!
 
 However LibreOffice is one of the exceptions.  it's very forgiving about
 it's dependencies and it's unlikely that something else is depending on a
 specific version of LO.  It's about the only package i ever install
 directly from the upstream site and i have grown quite comfortable doing
 so.  If it doesn't work out it's fairly easy to remove all the downloaded
 official TDF version and then reinstall your own distros version from their
 repos but it's unlikely you would need to.  The only downside is that you
 have to remember to upgrade it yourself.  Many of us don't even upgrade
 once a year, despite official recommendations, without any noticeable
 problems.
 
 It is also possible to install more than 1 version of LibreOffice at a time
 to get the best of both worlds
 https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
 
 
I have submitted a bug to bugzilla for this after being advised to by
'wolfi32'.

Cheers
Harvey

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Re: [libreoffice-users] mongodb and base

2014-11-22 Thread James Knott
On 11/22/2014 10:34 AM, Rob Jasper wrote:
 I used to work for Bell Labs, and they had as standard (!) perforation the US 
 3 + the US 4 holes, and we just added Europe's 4 holes, so in total there 
 were 11 holes...

Was there any paper left?  ;-)


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[libreoffice-users] Re: writer: master doc from template not accepting changes to template

2014-11-22 Thread Ricky Charlet
Howdy,
Thanks Andreas. You put me on the right path.

Saving template files and basing master doc on that template and hoping 
for
the best in sub-docs when the template file is changes does not work out.

But, using template manager extension, saving and managing a template 
under
that extension, editing the template, and re-applying the template to
previously created docs does work. And that is good enough for me.


And since you asked: why am I using master doc  sub docs?
Well, I’m new. That just seemed like the best fit when I read the Writer
help guide. I’m not confident this is the best strategy, and I’m open to
other ideas.
My goal is to share a chapter (or a chapter part) with a peer / review group
in email. So I want that doc to be a standalone doc each week. Then I’ll
incorporate suggested edits and move on to next chapter (or chapter part). 
I’ll be the author of the entirety of the book, so having multiple authors
is a non-goal for me.
I’m only into chapter 3 so far… so just starting out. I expect my book to
get quite long. Perhaps “Lord of the Rings” would serve as an upper bound to
the scale (I will not write something that large)… 500,000 words, 60ish
chapters, 3 books with 2 parts each.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] mongodb and base

2014-11-22 Thread Paul
I don't want to try and tell you your business, but I had a few
thoughts on your mail:


On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:18:43 -0500
Eric e...@esjworks.com wrote:

 
 On 11/16/2014 5:16 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
  Do you have use cases?
 I'm preping to talk to a real estate title authority.  they have 
 60+years of title info in the area and it is all held in informix.

That's a lot of data. And Informix is a real workhorse of a database.
Arbitrarily shifting to MongoDB and Base just doesn't sound like a well
though out decision...

Base doesn't strike me as a rock solid, serious solution, but that
might be just my perception. However, there are a few more pointers in
your mail that suggest the decision may be less than considered:


 they generate reports on the fly (hence base) and would like to be

What exactly do you mean by this? That they regularly want custom
designed reports? Sounds odd. Surely they must have some idea of what
they want to get out of the system on a regular basis? Otherwise it
implies that they don't really know what they want the system for. And
that right there would be a fundamental problem, one that no amount of
engineering will solve.


 able to add information on properties incrementally without always
 rewriting the schema and go through the database conversion.

A common request, but almost always a bad idea. By adding information
you must mean adding fields to the database, which should always be a
carefully considered decision, not an as the mood strikes decision.

Assuming that such fields are purely additional data, and in no way
form part of any relationships, then sure, they can be added quite
easily, but the question is always who is going to go through all the
current entries in the database filling in that new field? One can make
the new fields nullable, and just let all old data have nulls for those
new fields, but that just leaves a mess of incomplete data in the
database. If they've been collecting data for the past 60+ years, they
must have a pretty good idea of what data they need. Real estate data
can't change that often.


 Yes, there may some legal reasons why they can't do this but htat is
 why er are talking.

Legal reasons? I can't think of any. This is their data, they can do
what they like with it, I should think. But I'm a technical guy, not a
legal guy, so I really have little idea. All I *can* tell you is that
from a technical standpoint this sounds like a nightmare waiting to
bite you in the posterior later. And the fact that you think there may
be legal issues may indicate a misunderstanding about what it is the
client is trying to do.


 personally, I am an order of magnitude more effective with mongo than 
 any sql database.  mongo maps better to my mind than sql.  I'd like a 
 base connection so I can be more effective in my ad-hoc db tools

At a fundamental level, it sounds like the problem is with the concept,
not the implementation. I'd go back to the drawing board on this one.
Rethink what your client wants to do, and from there use proper tools
to implement it. Much as I am a fan of LO, I just can't recommend Base
as a tool for serious work in the order of 60+ years of data in an
Informix database.

But then again, you know what the client wants, I don't. And as you're
the one who has to do the work, you will need to decide how closely you
want to stick with what you're familiar with. And one assumes you're
the guy who has to live with the decisions. So if you want MongoDB and
Base, I'm sure someone will be able to point you in the right
direction. Unfortunately I can't, as I have no experience with MongoDB.

I just thought I'd point out what seems like a mess. You might well
have thought it through thoroughly, and this advice may be unwarranted
and unwanted, and if so I apologise, but I felt it better to offer
caution than to let you step blindly into harm's way.

It's entirely your call of course, but, given that I've done these
sorts of systems for a living for quite a few years, your description
raised warnings when parsed through my experience filter, and I felt I
should tell you about it.

Paul


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Re: [libreoffice-users] mongodb and base

2014-11-22 Thread Peter Goggin

On 23/11/14 09:53, Paul wrote:

I don't want to try and tell you your business, but I had a few
thoughts on your mail:


On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:18:43 -0500
Eric e...@esjworks.com wrote:


On 11/16/2014 5:16 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:

Do you have use cases?

I'm preping to talk to a real estate title authority.  they have
60+years of title info in the area and it is all held in informix.

That's a lot of data. And Informix is a real workhorse of a database.
Arbitrarily shifting to MongoDB and Base just doesn't sound like a well
though out decision...

Base doesn't strike me as a rock solid, serious solution, but that
might be just my perception. However, there are a few more pointers in
your mail that suggest the decision may be less than considered:



they generate reports on the fly (hence base) and would like to be

What exactly do you mean by this? That they regularly want custom
designed reports? Sounds odd. Surely they must have some idea of what
they want to get out of the system on a regular basis? Otherwise it
implies that they don't really know what they want the system for. And
that right there would be a fundamental problem, one that no amount of
engineering will solve.



able to add information on properties incrementally without always
rewriting the schema and go through the database conversion.

A common request, but almost always a bad idea. By adding information
you must mean adding fields to the database, which should always be a
carefully considered decision, not an as the mood strikes decision.

Assuming that such fields are purely additional data, and in no way
form part of any relationships, then sure, they can be added quite
easily, but the question is always who is going to go through all the
current entries in the database filling in that new field? One can make
the new fields nullable, and just let all old data have nulls for those
new fields, but that just leaves a mess of incomplete data in the
database. If they've been collecting data for the past 60+ years, they
must have a pretty good idea of what data they need. Real estate data
can't change that often.



Yes, there may some legal reasons why they can't do this but htat is
why er are talking.

Legal reasons? I can't think of any. This is their data, they can do
what they like with it, I should think. But I'm a technical guy, not a
legal guy, so I really have little idea. All I *can* tell you is that
from a technical standpoint this sounds like a nightmare waiting to
bite you in the posterior later. And the fact that you think there may
be legal issues may indicate a misunderstanding about what it is the
client is trying to do.



personally, I am an order of magnitude more effective with mongo than
any sql database.  mongo maps better to my mind than sql.  I'd like a
base connection so I can be more effective in my ad-hoc db tools

At a fundamental level, it sounds like the problem is with the concept,
not the implementation. I'd go back to the drawing board on this one.
Rethink what your client wants to do, and from there use proper tools
to implement it. Much as I am a fan of LO, I just can't recommend Base
as a tool for serious work in the order of 60+ years of data in an
Informix database.

But then again, you know what the client wants, I don't. And as you're
the one who has to do the work, you will need to decide how closely you
want to stick with what you're familiar with. And one assumes you're
the guy who has to live with the decisions. So if you want MongoDB and
Base, I'm sure someone will be able to point you in the right
direction. Unfortunately I can't, as I have no experience with MongoDB.

I just thought I'd point out what seems like a mess. You might well
have thought it through thoroughly, and this advice may be unwarranted
and unwanted, and if so I apologise, but I felt it better to offer
caution than to let you step blindly into harm's way.

It's entirely your call of course, but, given that I've done these
sorts of systems for a living for quite a few years, your description
raised warnings when parsed through my experience filter, and I felt I
should tell you about it.

Paul


I read this e-mail with interest. Paul has raised some very serious 
points that need consideration. Unless the clients have fully defined 
their requirements, including any special reporting needs the 
implementation of this system with any data base software will be 
problematic. Good data base design requires a properly thought out and 
detailed requirements documentation. While regarding software as 
engineering may not be popular, the general attitude of just lets code 
it on the fly leads to enormous problems which can be much more 
expensive to fix than spending time on getting a decent requirements 
document, software design document, test plan and acceptance  
documentation,
plans for quality assurance and management and description of the 
operational use of the software.  These items are all essential in the 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Comments on pdf file size in 4.4 alpha; and a new bug?

2014-11-22 Thread som


On Saturday, 22 November 2014 8:39 PM, Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote:




Hi :)
I think there might be a few different things going on there.

Firstly i have no idea how the devs think or work.  Clearly they think very
differently from most users.  What seems obvious and makes sense to us is
clearly 'wrong'.

To me, i'd agree with you, that if it's annoying in one branch and still
exists in the next then it's likely to be annoying in that branch too.
Clearly the devs don't think like that at all.  Trying to argue the point
is likely to get you in trouble here.  It's one of the reasons i am under
moderation or even chucked off mailing lists here.


What normal users, like us, tend to think of as bugs or stability issues is
often technically called something else.  So far i can only think of 5 but
i'm sure there are more.  The most frequent type of 'bug' reported by
normal users is often really a broken feature.  That is very different
from what the devs would call a bug, as far as i can make out.  It's
certainly NOT a stability issue.  Very few bugs are anything to do with
stability.  So when something is broken we have to try to figure out
whether the devs would call it;
1.  something that behaves differently from certain other programs (but the
LO way might well be better)
2.  something behaving weirdly
3.  something that changed behaviour
4.  a broken feature/thing
5.  a bug
or
6.  a bug causing a stability issue

Sometimes there is no practical difference between 1 and 2 or it might be
just a difference of opinion, ie immensely long and argumentative threads.

We rarely discuss items such as 3 because we mostly just adapt or new
people are unaware it used to be any different.  Sometimes it's intriguing
or interesting.  Occasionally a change in behaviour only happens to 1
person and indicates weird things going wrong which all gets fixed by
renaming the User Profile.  More usually it's a positive thing that a few
people find annoying but most people either don't care or find it an
improvement.  (like when some obscure graphs got smoothed out in a better
way that gave better results and looked nicer (i think in 3.4.0)).

Mostly what we get here is 4.  A long running feature/thing suddenly stops
working in a new branch.  We try renaming the User Profile jic it's that
(despite it seeming really unlikely) and post a bug-report only to find we
gets loads of aggro from devs telling us to fix it ourselves or that
individuals should pay to get it fixed.  Sometimes it gets all bitter and
unnecessary blaming individuals who are all trying to do a good job but
that sometimes leads to unexpected complications out in the wild.  Maybe
we should post these as feature requests and pretend that it's new in
order to avoid hurting anyone's feelings?

Very occasionally we get a real 5 but it's actually quite unusual, and
quite difficult to spot since everything else is also called by the same
name by most normal users.

We seem to get a real 6 much more often than a real 5 but then it turns out
to be a Java or other 3rd party issue.  We still quite often help fix it.
I think one time it turned out to be a wobbly graphics card and another
time a defective fan but usually it's just a case or trying a different
version of either Java or LibreOffice.


Unfortunately pretty much all those things can only be reported by posting
a bug-report.  Feature requests use the bug-reporting systems.  In that
system one of the drop-downs has an option labelled feature request.  We
can often help with most of them, especially 1 and 2 and even 6 but the
only route to escalate problems is to post a bug-report.  I tried liaising
with other mailing lists to see if they could help with other issues but it
earned me a bad reputation so i wouldn't advise it!


Now is the ideal time to take the 4.4.0 for a test-drive.  It's the number
1 time that the most devs are looking for problems in the new branch.  It's
also THE best time to get stuff fixed.  New stuff is still fresh in
people's minds so they might instinctively put their finger right on the
source of the problem even if the code seems fine to everyone else.

So, please do take the 4.4.0 for a test-drive now and post bug-reports
about whatever you find (maybe ask here first maybe) even if it doesn't
really seem to be a bug and seems to fall into one of the other categories
i made-up on the spot there or some other not-quite-a-bug-really type
category.

This is also a good time to join in with the QA team to help do routine
office type work to help make sure the different bugs are all neatly filed
and stuff so that the devs can focus on the coding rather than getting
bogged won with filing and routine stuff.
Regards from
Tom :)


very well said.
+1
regards,
som

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