Re: [DISCUSS] Do we want download links for Dev Builds on a usual webpage?

2012-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/11/2012 Kay Schenk wrote: On 11/11/2012 04:22 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds (they are also called "with/without system integration" respectively). OK, I see this note and I confess I don't pay much attention to

Re: Missing option in right click under OO 3.4.1

2012-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 25/10/2012 Eric Byers wrote: MS Office was installed first. Followed by OO 3.4.1 After the installation of OO, the option under the right mouse click for a new MS Word document was removed. Right click in a folder space, select "New" - spreadsheets, text d

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Ross Gardler
What a great idea. I'm copying this to the ComDev list so others can consider it. Having said that this one reason this would work for AOO is that it has such a large non-technical user community., something that's not really true of other Apache projects. If any projects adapt the idea please fee

Re: desktop publishing

2012-11-14 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Phillip Zadro wrote: > > > > > hi Is there any likelihood that OpenOffice will one day include a desktop > publisher? There is only one thing that is stopping me from migrating > completely from Microsoft Office to either OpenOffice or LibreOffice and it > is thei

Re: desktop publishing

2012-11-14 Thread Graham Lauder
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Phillip Zadro wrote: > > > > > hi Is there any likelihood that OpenOffice will one day include a desktop > publisher? You can use Draw as a DTP application without much problem, combined with the OpenClipart extension it's quite useful, not at the level of Scribu

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > actually we do had faqs, many of them actually, the main issue is > mantaining such FAQs. > this remind me of a xkcd > http://xkcd.com/927/ > > On 11/14/12, Kay Schenk wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > >

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Alexandro Colorado
actually we do had faqs, many of them actually, the main issue is mantaining such FAQs. this remind me of a xkcd http://xkcd.com/927/ On 11/14/12, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I >> noticed

Re: [RELEASE]: new snapshot base don revision r1400866

2012-11-14 Thread Li Feng Wang
I install a JDK 32bit on my windows 64bit env, There is no issue on Windows 64bit BVT. 2012/10/30 Ariel Constenla-Haile > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 01:40:53PM +0800, Li Feng Wang wrote: > > Hi,all, > > > > I already run BVT on OO snapshot r1400866 > > > > Result: Passed with known issue.

Re: Compiling Symphony

2012-11-14 Thread Chao Huang
2012/11/14 Andre Fischer > On 14.11.2012 14:37, Chao Huang wrote: > >> 2012/11/14 Andre Fischer >> >> Hi, >>> >>> I am currently trying to get an overview of the implementation and API >>> that could be reused for the new task pane/sidebar feature. >>> >>> It will be an interesting work! >> >>

Re: Editing needed on BZ footer -- remove "podling" reference

2012-11-14 Thread TJ Frazier
On 11/14/2012 18:47, Kay Schenk wrote: HI -- Could one of our BZ admins please remove the "podling" reference in the footer area for Apache OOo Bugzilla? Thanks. Hi, Kay, A little research in the BZ Help [1] reveals in Section 6.3.5 that the global footer is in a template, "global/footer.htm

Re: Look at the pretty branches

2012-11-14 Thread Andrew Rist
On 11/14/2012 3:10 PM, Rob Weir wrote: I see that our project is growing new branches. Would it make sense to start documenting these on a wiki page, so it is clear what each one is, and who is maintaining it? Current branches are: AOO34/ --- Our 3.4.x branch, would be used if we ever need a

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I > noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated > questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be > a lot of good questions out there. They co

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-14 Thread RGB ES
2012/11/15 Rob Weir > This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I > noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated > questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be > a lot of good questions out there. They could range from "How do > I...

Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be a lot of good questions out there. They could range from "How do I..." to 'Why did you..." to "What i

Look at the pretty branches

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
I see that our project is growing new branches. Would it make sense to start documenting these on a wiki page, so it is clear what each one is, and who is maintaining it? Current branches are: AOO34/ --- Our 3.4.x branch, would be used if we ever need a 3.4.2 alg/ -- This is Armin's long-term

Re: [User Docs] What do we as a community want for user documentation or AOO

2012-11-14 Thread RGB ES
2012/11/13 Rob Weir > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:05 PM, RGB ES wrote: > > > I agree as a general concept, but I think the possible uses of AOO are so > > broad that it is quite difficult to identify definite tasks. For example, > > writing a letter seems a quite different task from writing a book

[Question] generated source files with languages (l10n process) overwriting original files.

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
While programming the l10n translation, I have stumbled across something which I do not know is a real or theoretical problem. I need an opinion from people with more experience. Description of the current situation: When you run configure with e.g. "--with-lang=da", all languages Are inserted in

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread F C. Costero
There is some evidence, or suspicion, on the en forum that the automatic check for updates is involved with the problem. See this posting and others in the same thread. http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=55912&start=30#p253337 Francis On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Rob W

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
I learned something again tonight. Since there is an audit trail then your idea is perfect and first of all easy to handle. Jan. On 14 November 2012 20:21, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:12 PM, jan iversen > wrote: > > On 14 November 2012 20:01, Rob Weir wrote: > > > >> On Wed, N

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:12 PM, jan iversen wrote: > On 14 November 2012 20:01, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:57 PM, jan iversen >> wrote: >> > +1 in general to your ideas, it would be VERY nice to have an easy way, >> and >> > the more we all do to make it easy the more develo

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
On 14 November 2012 20:01, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:57 PM, jan iversen > wrote: > > +1 in general to your ideas, it would be VERY nice to have an easy way, > and > > the more we all do to make it easy the more developers will work for both > > projects. I do however have one q

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:57 PM, jan iversen wrote: > +1 in general to your ideas, it would be VERY nice to have an easy way, and > the more we all do to make it easy the more developers will work for both > projects. I do however have one question. > > Regarding the mark #AOOCONTRIBUTION. It an A

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
+1 in general to your ideas, it would be VERY nice to have an easy way, and the more we all do to make it easy the more developers will work for both projects. I do however have one question. Regarding the mark #AOOCONTRIBUTION. It an AOO committer take the code and integrate it, would that not be

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti >> wrote: >> > On 13/11/2012 Painius wrote: >> >> >> >> then I should notify all of you to see if someone >> >> else has the problem and pos

Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
I've heard some discussion and interest in this topic off-list. There has been some practical experience, but nothing that we've written down or promoted. I'd be interested in seeing if we can come up with some solid best practices. The problem: Many (most?) open source contributors are not opp

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti > wrote: > > On 13/11/2012 Painius wrote: > >> > >> then I should notify all of you to see if someone > >> else has the problem and possibly a solution. His tip did > >> not keep AOO from crashin

Symphony IP Cleanup (was RE: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation)

2012-11-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I know there's a lot of plates spinning as cutover from graduation occurs. It seems to me this is not an insignificant problem: 1. People who see the IP-encumbered code on the AOO SVN are not privy to the SGA. All they have to go by are the notices that they see there. 2. There are limitati

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:18:11 +0100 Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> Frequent crashes are often due to the first of our Known Issues: > >> http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.4.1.html#AOO3.4.1ReleaseNotes-KnownIs

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Frequent crashes are often due to the first of our Known Issues: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.4.1.html#AOO3.4.1ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues So if this is our #1 issue, is there anything we can do to improve

RE: Compiling Symphony

2012-11-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Can there please be some priority given to the IP cleanup of the Symphony section of the SVN so it is safe for others to begin working on it? It is in an untouchable state in its present form, especially if folks want to merge changes and fixes in preparation for integration of bits from it.

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread tj
On 11/14/2012 09:52, Fan Zheng wrote: +1. A reproduce-able frequently crash issue should be considered as the NO. 1 issue anyway, whatever it is or not a well-known one. Especially for the crash cases happen in the startup period. and I agree with Rob that work-around solution would be acceptab

Re: Compiling Symphony

2012-11-14 Thread Andre Fischer
On 14.11.2012 14:37, Chao Huang wrote: 2012/11/14 Andre Fischer Hi, I am currently trying to get an overview of the implementation and API that could be reused for the new task pane/sidebar feature. It will be an interesting work! For this I am looking also at the symphony branch in our

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread Fan Zheng
+1. A reproduce-able frequently crash issue should be considered as the NO. 1 issue anyway, whatever it is or not a well-known one. Especially for the crash cases happen in the startup period. and I agree with Rob that work-around solution would be acceptable for current stage, if we dont have ti

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 13/11/2012 Painius wrote: >> >> then I should notify all of you to see if someone >> else has the problem and possibly a solution. His tip did >> not keep AOO from crashing, so here goes... > > > Frequent crashes are often due to the fi

Re: Planned entry for Apache OOO Blog

2012-11-14 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi List, On 13.11.2012 14:50, Armin Le Grand wrote: Hi List, I have prepared a blog entry (currently draft) since I saw that LO had currently integrated some stuff from our codebase, e.g. the SVG import feature I added to AOO3.4. I wanted to share this with you before publishing. P

Re: Compiling Symphony

2012-11-14 Thread Chao Huang
2012/11/14 Andre Fischer > Hi, > > I am currently trying to get an overview of the implementation and API > that could be reused for the new task pane/sidebar feature. > It will be an interesting work! > For this I am looking also at the symphony branch in our repository. But > just looking

Re: ApacheCon EU Survey

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
On 14 November 2012 09:00, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 10/11/2012 jan iversen wrote: > >> has anyone thought about making events that did not cost >> 600,- EUR + travel/hotel etc. ?? >> > > Yes, free (or with a nominal fee, like 10 EUR) events used to be the norm. > > > maybe it is time, we made

Re: [early codereview / check for standards] genLang in l10ntools

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
Hi soon is real soon, I have already had a mail conversation with juergen, and I understand that Dwayne first of all has a new release, and secondly is interested in some of the ideas I had. Jan. On 14 November 2012 13:38, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 06/11/2012 jan iversen wrote: > >> However

New entry for the Consultants Directory

2012-11-14 Thread David Vogt
Hi, I'd like to have the following entry on the consultants page. Here's the xml: Adfinis SyGroup AG CH Development Customization Support Other Adfinis SyGroup AG has been active in the open source environment for more than a decade. We provide services such as development, maintena

Re: [early codereview / check for standards] genLang in l10ntools

2012-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/11/2012 jan iversen wrote: However the issue is still open, and I think andrea/juergen will have a talk with you on that subject, and a couple of pootle server details during this week. This indeed happened. I believe Juergen and Dwayne will soon (for a reasonable definition of "soon"!)

Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013

2012-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: A draft of the Call for Papers/Talks (text only) is available at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+CFP ... It would be good to jazz this up a little. Is there a FOSDEM logo that we are permit

Re: desktop publishing

2012-11-14 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Phillip , hi Is there any likelihood that OpenOffice will one day include a desktop publisher? OO and LO are are already a Desktop application, included a very good PDF exporter. Sure its not like you MS Publisher , here you don't pay but need a bit more skills to make it work as a publish

Compiling Symphony

2012-11-14 Thread Andre Fischer
Hi, I am currently trying to get an overview of the implementation and API that could be reused for the new task pane/sidebar feature. For this I am looking also at the symphony branch in our repository. But just looking at the source code is not so easy, because the Writer already has a feat

Re: Apache OpenOffice crew

2012-11-14 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 14.11.2012 03:39, schrieb imacat: > On 2012/11/14 07:14, Andrew Rist said: >> trying again on this thread - here is the group shot taken on the last >> day of ApacheConEU >> http://people.apache.org/~arist/apachecon/ApacheConEUAOOGroupShot.JPG > > : > Don't be sad: http://people.apache.o

Hello from Acrolinx

2012-11-14 Thread Robert Barbey
Hi everyone, since my colleagues and I started writing a plug-in for OpenOffice Writer I wanted to let you guys know what we're trying to achieve with it. My company's main product is a client-server-based tool that assists authors in editing technical documentation. With a plug-in in their au

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/11/2012 Painius wrote: then I should notify all of you to see if someone else has the problem and possibly a solution. His tip did not keep AOO from crashing, so here goes... Frequent crashes are often due to the first of our Known Issues: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3

Re: [PROPOSAL] Initiate a Contest for Branding of 4.0

2012-11-14 Thread Graham Lauder
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Graham Lauder > wrote: > > 5 days is about up and we have no -1so I've started a page for creating > of > > the proposed RFP on the confluence wiki here: > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSE

Re: ApacheCon EU Survey

2012-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/11/2012 jan iversen wrote: has anyone thought about making events that did not cost 600,- EUR + travel/hotel etc. ?? Yes, free (or with a nominal fee, like 10 EUR) events used to be the norm. maybe it is time, we made a OpenOffice (I do not write AOO on purpose) gathering, where develop