Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-28 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Rob Weir wrote: Does anyone know what LibreOffice has in terms of test documents? Hi Rob, there is http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/test-files/ , and in-tree application unit tests, e.g. http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/sw/qa/core/data Btw, I vaguely

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Inge Wallin i...@lysator.liu.se wrote: On Sunday, January 27, 2013 03:33:20 Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Inge Wallin i...@lysator.liu.se wrote: On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 21:33:04 Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:06 AM,

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/01/2013 Inge Wallin wrote: On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 21:33:04 Rob Weir wrote: Are you planning to be at the KDE conference in July in Bilbao? It might good to have someone from AOO attend. Aside from the obvious common interest in ODF, it would be interesting to see if there are

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Inge Wallin i...@lysator.liu.se wrote: On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 21:33:04 Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Inge Wallin i...@lysator.liu.se wrote: On Friday, January 18, 2013 15:21:01 Ian Lynch wrote: On 18 January 2013 13:18, Fernando

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-24 Thread Inge Wallin
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 21:33:04 Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Inge Wallin i...@lysator.liu.se wrote: On Friday, January 18, 2013 15:21:01 Ian Lynch wrote: On 18 January 2013 13:18, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Ian

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Inge Wallin i...@lysator.liu.se wrote: On Friday, January 18, 2013 15:21:01 Ian Lynch wrote: On 18 January 2013 13:18, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: What we really need is a

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-21 Thread Donald Whytock
Thanks to the Apache OpenOffice Wikipedia article, I see there's OpenOffice Anywhere (http://www.ooanywhere.com/) that claims to provide browser access to OpenOffice 3. OpenOffice Anywhere charges a fee for this service. Given Google Docs is free, and AOO is free, I have doubts about the

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: That dies of course rely on having at least a significant minority of drug free competitors! :-) I think you pasted your reply into the wrong GMail compose window. Or, I´m beginning to lose track of where this thread is

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-19 Thread Ian Lynch
On 19 January 2013 11:04, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: That dies of course rely on having at least a significant minority of drug free competitors! :-) I think you pasted your reply into the wrong GMail

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: Skate to where the puck will be rather than where it is or has been. That´s fine. So, who wants to add a -vncserver switch to AOO ? ;) FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: That´s fine. So, who wants to add a -vncserver switch to AOO ? ;) Hmmm I´ve been researching this and it turns out all VNC implementations out there are GPL. BUT there´s this interesting solution with an Apache

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-19 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: Ha! it looks as if I had written it with regards to AOO thin client ;) I´ll try to see if this thing is buildable and I can sort f make a wrapper-launcher for AOO... FC

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi, this server based StarOffice version was called StarPortal (StarDivision). Later it was called Sun ONE Webtop (Sun Microsystems). The client protocol was VCL remote, a protocol that was removed before Sun opensourced the StarOffice code base to OpenOffice.org. With VCL remote the VCL

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Joost Andrae joost.and...@gmx.de wrote: Oracle Cloud Office cannot be compared with developments like StarPortal or Sun ONE Webtop that needed office processes to run on client side. Oracle Cloud Office used the ODF file format to render it by using JavaScript.

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Lynch
On 18 January 2013 09:16, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Joost Andrae joost.and...@gmx.de wrote: Oracle Cloud Office cannot be compared with developments like StarPortal or Sun ONE Webtop that needed office processes to run on client side. Oracle

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: What we really need is a cloud version of AOO like Google Docs. We don´t *need* ONE thing. That´s the beauty of open source, ´we´ could do *several* things. I for one don´t ´need´ an AJAX / HTML5 version of AOO... GDocs is

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Lynch
On 18 January 2013 13:18, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: What we really need is a cloud version of AOO like Google Docs. We don´t *need* ONE thing. That´s the beauty of open source, ´we´ could do *several* things.

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: Swimming against global trends is not a sensible idea when you have very limited resources and very little time. Never implied that. Just said it´d be cool to have the current AOO edition repurposed -or extended- to also

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi, I for one don´t ´need´ an AJAX / HTML5 version of AOO... GDocs is fine... I personally think browser based apps are a pig, and doing apps in JScript is insane. I had Chrome open the other day just with GMail and it was using over 150 MB of RAM A thin client virtualized version on the

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Joost Andrae joost.and...@gmx.de wrote: More important is the ability to modify documents on the go eg. from a mobile. Yes, and you can do that with an html5/ajax version hosted somewhere -you´d need a web server-, or also by logging into your AOO copy at home

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi, Yes, and you can do that with an html5/ajax version hosted somewhere -you´d need a web server-, or also by logging into your AOO copy at home with a VNC client for Android/iPad... but I don't want to render the application. It's better to work on the document by using an API of it's

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 13-01-18, at 15:48 , Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 January 2013 17:41, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: It wasnt an edition more like a mode, you did $ soffice -net and you can have variou users

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-18 Thread Ian Lynch
On 18 January 2013 22:16, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: On 13-01-18, at 15:48 , Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 January 2013 17:41, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: It wasnt an edition

OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
I remember Sun -or perhaps it was StarDivision- once sold a StarOffice network computing edition, basically what I think it did was install a OO.o/SO Server on a LAN, and remote users connected -over VNC or likewise thin-client protocol- via a Java applet in their browsers, to the StarOffice app.

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: I remember Sun -or perhaps it was StarDivision- once sold a StarOffice network computing edition, basically what I think it did was install a OO.o/SO Server on a LAN, and remote users connected -over VNC or likewise

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-17 Thread Alexandro Colorado
It wasnt an edition more like a mode, you did $ soffice -net and you can have variou users conenected, there was a pertner that even did some Active Directory authentication. http://openofficetechnology.com/products/OpenOffice-Enterprise On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Rob Weir

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-17 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 um 05:18 schrieb Fernando Cassia: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: It wasnt an edition more like a mode, you did $ soffice -net and you can have variou users conenected, there was a pertner that even did some Active

Re: OpenOffice thin client edition - why not?

2013-01-17 Thread Kevin Grignon
Hello All, I see a shift in how people capture and manage content. We need to make it easy for people to get ideas into the tools, help them organize the content, make it look the way they want and share the content. Managing files is not an enjoyable part of this story. Evernote's