Re: User initiative for improving OOXML (was Re: AOO questions on Google)

2013-01-03 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 1/2/13 9:05 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Howdy Jürgen, Hmm - well, I had understood it was ALv2 specifically so that it would be available to the project here. Hopefully when the developers make a drop of the code it will be something that the devs here will want to utilize it, wasn't really

Re: User initiative for improving OOXML (was Re: AOO questions on Google)

2013-01-03 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi, if you're interested into including the changes into AOO then all parties involved are listed here (incl. email addresses): http://www.digitale-nachhaltigkeit.ch/2012/07/suse-und-lanedo-setzen-ooxml-verbesserungen-in-libreofficeopenoffice-org-fur-behorden-um/ Am 03.01.2013 10:22, schrieb

Re: http://oooforum.org/ is not accessible

2013-01-03 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:16:12 +0400 Yakov Reztsov yakovr...@mail.ru wrote: http://oooforum.org/ is not accessible I got error:   DNS service for this domain has expired with DNS Made Easy It has been very uncertain of access for about the last four months. No one knows anything

[RELEASE]: 1 day left for new/updated translations for AOO 3.4.1

2013-01-03 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Hi, this is just a friendly reminder for our translation deadline tomorrow Jan 4th, 2013. But if you don't make the date, our next release is not too far away and we are looking forward to release even more languages for AOO 4.0. Please provide information about used dictionaries as well that we

Re: [RELEASE]: 1 day left for new/updated translations for AOO 3.4.1

2013-01-03 Thread janI
On 3 January 2013 13:14, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, this is just a friendly reminder for our translation deadline tomorrow Jan 4th, 2013. But if you don't make the date, our next release is not too far away and we are looking forward to release even more languages for

Re: [RELEASE]: 1 day left for new/updated translations for AOO 3.4.1

2013-01-03 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 01:14:03PM +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi, this is just a friendly reminder for our translation deadline tomorrow Jan 4th, 2013. But if you don't make the date, our next release is not too far away and we are looking forward to release even more languages for AOO

Re: [RELEASE]: 1 day left for new/updated translations for AOO 3.4.1

2013-01-03 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 01:55:42PM +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Yesterday while building yesterday I realized there are several resources that are not being translated; an example, for nb: ... languages nb ... ... analyzing files ... WARNING: Using autotextshare_en-US.zip instead of

Unable to create media wiki account

2013-01-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Alexander I see that the entire user creation system has changed. When you said that you were unable to create an account using your gmail account, I assumed that this was related to users not being able to create accounts. This seems to have changed with an interesting new captcha

Re: http://oooforum.org/ is not accessible

2013-01-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/03/2013 05:16 AM, Yakov Reztsov wrote: http://oooforum.org/ is not accessible I got error: DNS service for this domain has expired with DNS Made Easy -- Yakov Reztsov It has been unreliable for a while. This, however, is something different. I dropped an email to the site

Re: User initiative for improving OOXML (was Re: AOO questions on Google)

2013-01-03 Thread Drew Jensen
LOl - well, I wouldn't make too much of the paid development part, Jurgen, it is what you do also, paid developement work for this project. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Joost Andrae joost.and...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, if you're interested into including the changes into AOO then all parties

Re: User initiative for improving OOXML (was Re: AOO questions on Google)

2013-01-03 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Well, it is easier to get funding for such things if both projects get benefits. Depending on the organizers, if things only go to one side now it is likely that such funding will not be available in the future or that it will be reduced considerably and then everyone loses. Pedro.

Re: [RELEASE]: 1 day left for new/updated translations for AOO 3.4.1

2013-01-03 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 1/3/13 2:08 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 01:55:42PM +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Yesterday while building yesterday I realized there are several resources that are not being translated; an example, for nb: ...

Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Rob Weir
https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=your_top_questions_answered In addition to review, note that I need help developing a response to questions 7, 8 and 10. 7. Open Office doesn't handle tables in Word well - for example re-sizing of columns, keeping table rows together, inserting

Re: For information: Ubuntu on Android phones news report

2013-01-03 Thread imacat
On 2013/01/03 06:50, Rory O'Farrell said: BBC report that Ubuntu will be modified to run on Android phones. This may open the door for a port of Apache OpenOffice http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20891868 I can't wait to see that. I tried to install Linux inside my Android ASUS

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread RGB ES
2013/1/3 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=your_top_questions_answered Good! For point 3: security vulnerabilities that may effect both products. I think it should be affect. We've had several cases where a programmer contributed a patch to

Typos on web etc...

2013-01-03 Thread janI
Hi Infra just suggested that I promote this site: https://comments.apache.org/ It is intented to be used by non-committers, to e.g. inform about typos and such on our web. Maybe we could link to it from openoffice.org Rgds Jan I

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:46:41 -0500 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=your_top_questions_answered snip Number 5, about PDF needs a plain statement that AOO and earlier OOo are not intended to be PDF readers/editors, which task is best handled

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0500, Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=your_top_questions_answered In addition to review, note that I need help developing a response to questions 7, 8 and 10. 7. Open Office doesn't handle tables in Word well - for

Development

2013-01-03 Thread Jonathan
Hi, I am a coder in objective c and c and c++ and would like to contribute to making the OpenOffice suite support iOS, please reply soon.

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile arie...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 10:46:41AM -0500, Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=your_top_questions_answered In addition to review, note that I need help developing a response to

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Drew Jensen
First to what Rory was saying on PDF editing, I tend to agree and personally don't see it as a must have feature for any suite - that said, again for myself I'd point out that with ODF-extended file format they can create a PDF/ODF hybrid (whether you think that is a good idea or not..;) but it is

Re: Typos on web etc...

2013-01-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:00 AM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: Hi Infra just suggested that I promote this site: https://comments.apache.org/ It is intented to be used by non-committers, to e.g. inform about typos and such on our web. We discussed it at one point, when this was initially

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:36:33 -0500 Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: First to what Rory was saying on PDF editing, I tend to agree and personally don't see it as a must have feature for any suite - that said, again for myself I'd point out that with ODF-extended file format they can

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:36:33 -0500 Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: First to what Rory was saying on PDF editing, I tend to agree and personally don't see it as a must have feature for any suite - that said,

Re: Development

2013-01-03 Thread Herbert Duerr
Hi Jonathan, On 03.01.2013 17:19, Jonathan wrote: Hi, I am a coder in objective c and c and c++ and would like to contribute to making the OpenOffice suite support iOS, please reply soon. It looks like you'd like dive right into the source! http://openoffice.apache.org/source.html is a good

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:58 AM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/1/3 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=your_top_questions_answered Good! For point 3: security vulnerabilities that may effect both products. I think it should be affect.

Re: We Need One - Fwd: DOAP

2013-01-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: We need to fill out a project DOAP file in order to be listed on www.apache.org on the bottom left. Thanks, this was already reported by khirano while the migration was not completed yet, so it was in the list of pending changes at

Re: http://oooforum.org/ is not accessible

2013-01-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Yakov Reztsov yakovr...@mail.ru wrote: http://oooforum.org/ is not accessible And that is an official Apache OpenOffice support site since, when? FC

Re: http://oooforum.org/ is not accessible

2013-01-03 Thread Drew Jensen
It never has been an official site, officially, but it was the original, and only english language, support forum on the web for the suite for a good while. So lots of existing links from all manner of other resources. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: http://oooforum.org/ is not accessible

2013-01-03 Thread Drew Jensen
One more thought on oooforum - is the problems such that it would warrant removing the site from the Google Custom Search Engine used on the aoo-forums landing page? On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.comwrote: It never has been an official site, officially,

Re: http://oooforum.org/ is not accessible

2013-01-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: One more thought on oooforum - is the problems such that it would warrant removing the site from the Google Custom Search Engine used on the aoo-forums landing page? sorry, first time I read about oooforum.org. I

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:57:11 -0500 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: snip OK. See if the revised answer is good. Revised text is very good. snip Is there anything in the current text that suggests blame? No, Rob, there is not, nor was there; I'm sorry if it was picked up so. My

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Drew Jensen
Hey Rob, Looking at the blog - I read it that the question abut LibO and AOO is the number one asked question, is that what it say? I'm looking at the google site and sorting by popularity under general questions and get: Most of the times I deal with middle eastern languages. when I open a

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Rob, Looking at the blog - I read it that the question abut LibO and AOO is the number one asked question, is that what it say? I'm looking at the google site and sorting by popularity under general questions

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Drew Jensen
My bad - came back typing and didn't read your last mail - ok, grabbed that one also. Thanks On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.comwrote: Right - I've taken the csv export, sucked into Calc, removed the author/location columns completely, saved as ODS and

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: Right - I've taken the csv export, sucked into Calc, removed the author/location columns completely, saved as ODS and imported that into Google Docs. Also added a column which subtracts, minus votes, and so yes

Re: Volunteers for a FOSDEM Hacking OpenOffice tutorial session?

2013-01-03 Thread Albino Biasutti Neto
Hi On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Now... Would this be worth pursuing? Yeah ! I see this good events as an marketing for AOO. The search to development is important. Hackfest AOO :-) -- Albino

Re: New year

2013-01-03 Thread Albino Biasutti Neto
Hi On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Sylvain DENIS sylvain.tech...@gmail.com wrote: I hope an happy new year to aoo Happy new year to all !!! Very happy and sucess to AOO ! :-) -- Albino

Re: New year

2013-01-03 Thread imacat
On 2013/01/01 07:18, Sylvain DENIS said: I hope an happy new year to aoo Sylvain denis from belgium Happy 2013 to everyone! OpenOffice shall live long and prosper(?)! (Sorry, again.) I believe we shall have a great year in 2013, as we have so many plans going on. ^_*' -- Best

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Drew Jensen
I wasn't looking, or thinking about AOO for a few months - missed the switch. Anyway, it is the top vote getter question there alright... Oddly, I can't actually get the csv export from google on the proper question page - remote services, try back again in 2 minutes please ;) On Thu, Jan 3,

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: I wasn't looking, or thinking about AOO for a few months - missed the switch. The old one was for product ideas. The new one was for questions. It seemed like a good idea to keep these distinct. Anyway, it is the

Re: Calc user guide Chapter 6 - German translation READY NOW

2013-01-03 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi, TJ Frazier schrieb: [..] Hi, Regina, I have found a good place, by following the Deutsch link on the Documentation page. On the English version, the links are a couple of pages away, but the German page is mostly redlinks. An indented link under the Calc 3.2 redlink should work. I expect

Re: http://oooforum.org/ is not accessible

2013-01-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 01/03/2013 12:40 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: One more thought on oooforum - is the problems such that it would warrant removing the site from the Google Custom Search Engine used on the aoo-forums landing page?

Re: Unable to create media wiki account

2013-01-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Although that may be true, Neither Alexander nor I were able to create an account using a gmail email address because the email address was considered a temporary email address. Alexander, can you try again to create a new account. On 01/03/2013 10:30 AM, janI wrote: HI. gmail is not on

Re: http://oooforum.org/ is not accessible

2013-01-03 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: A user posted that an OpenOffice related forum is down, so I responded. That´s OK Andrew, I´m not questioning your actions. Just never heard of that site before and failed to see the connection with the AOO dev

New mailing list for OpenOffice documentation developers

2013-01-03 Thread Rob Weir
Quick reminder, in case you missed this news over the holidays. We have a new mailing list dedicated to documentation developers (authors, editors, information engineers, whatever you want to call yourself) for OpenOffice. Volunteers can subscribe to the list by sending an email to :

Calc vs. acaddins : where to put stuff.

2013-01-03 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi; While digging around Calc I see some things that could be ordered better. One change that I am considering is moving RAND() to the Analysis scaddin and bringing the error erf() function in base Calc. This has reasons of course: in the case of RAND() I want it in the same file as

Re: Unable to create media wiki account

2013-01-03 Thread Alexander Krasowski
I just did and got the same error message again. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: Although that may be true, Neither Alexander nor I were able to create an account using a gmail email address because the email address was considered a

Re: Unable to create media wiki account

2013-01-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Jan, how long before your change propagates out? Perhaps you can perform a test and try to create an account for Alexander with the username krasowskian with his email address to see if it is really working I suggest a password of JanWorksToHard :-) joke On 01/03/2013 05:09 PM, Alexander

Re: Unable to create media wiki account

2013-01-03 Thread janI
Hi. I have created the account without problems (password as suggested). did you refresh your browser window ? rgds Jan I. On 3 January 2013 23:17, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.orgwrote: Jan, how long before your change propagates out? Perhaps you can perform a test and try to

Re: Unable to create media wiki account

2013-01-03 Thread Alexander Krasowski
Got it, thanks! On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:49 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: Hi. I have created the account without problems (password as suggested). did you refresh your browser window ? rgds Jan I. On 3 January 2013 23:17, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: Jan,

Re: first look at a scrolling News column...

2013-01-03 Thread Kay Schenk
On 01/01/2013 10:12 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Carl Marcum cmar...@apache.org mailto:cmar...@apache.org wrote: On 12/31/2012 06:06 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: Well, I have finally put up a mockup of what a scrolling News column on our home

Re: Development

2013-01-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Forwarding Herbert's answer (below) to Jonathan, who is not subscribed to this mailing list. Andrea. Herbert Duerr wrote: Hi Jonathan, On 03.01.2013 17:19, Jonathan wrote: Hi, I am a coder in objective c and c and c++ and would like to contribute to making the OpenOffice suite support iOS,

Re: Volunteers for a FOSDEM Hacking OpenOffice tutorial session?

2013-01-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 03/01/2013 Albino Biasutti Neto wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Now... Would this be worth pursuing? Yeah ! I see this good events as an marketing for AOO. Me too, but we would need a volunteer in the next 24 hours, since we must then finalize the FOSDEM

[PROPOSAL] lazy consensus for new News scrolling

2013-01-03 Thread Kay Schenk
Here's is the latest/final draft for the proposed new user portal web site home page incorporating News scrolling: http://www.openoffice.org/test/ I am invoking lazy consensus for this change. If I hear no complaints by Sunday 1750 PDT, I will implement this change. Thereafter all news

Re: http://oooforum.org/ is not accessible

2013-01-03 Thread Kay Schenk
On 01/03/2013 02:05 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: howdy Andrew, Great. Well, it, the op, prompted me to look at the CSE accessible at forum.openoffice.org. Glad I did, there was a little snaffu. Did a search for 邊 and sure enough it pulls up, under the all areas tab, but was not coming up under the

Re: [PROPOSAL] lazy consensus for new News scrolling

2013-01-03 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: Here's is the latest/final draft for the proposed new user portal web site home page incorporating News scrolling: http://www.openoffice.org/test/ I like it. Great work. I am invoking lazy consensus for this change. If I hear no complaints

Re: [PROPOSAL] lazy consensus for new News scrolling

2013-01-03 Thread RGB ES
2013/1/4 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Here's is the latest/final draft for the proposed new user portal web site home page incorporating News scrolling: http://www.openoffice.org/test/ I am invoking lazy consensus

Re: Calc vs. acaddins : where to put stuff.

2013-01-03 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Pedro, Pedro Giffuni schrieb: Hi; While digging around Calc I see some things that could be ordered better. One change that I am considering is moving RAND() to the Analysis scaddin and bringing the error erf() function in base Calc. This has reasons of course: in the case of RAND() I

Re: Calc vs. acaddins : where to put stuff.

2013-01-03 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi Regina; Thank you for the explanations. Da: Regina Henschel  Hi Pedro, Pedro Giffuni schrieb: Hi; While digging around Calc I see some things that could be ordered better. One change that I am considering is moving RAND() to the Analysis scaddin and

Re: http://oooforum.org/ is not accessible

2013-01-03 Thread Drew Jensen
Hi Kay, No strong opinion on what i take as your question there. I will add this, a little off topic, I haven't been around for a while and just followed some of those links - ah the consultants listing I had not see. Nice. Drew On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com

Re: Yes, the Windows build is broken due to boost

2013-01-03 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hmm .. I found it, MSVC is picky/dumb and we have to specify the type, like in this case: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/708555/compile-error-c-could-not-deduce-template-argument-for-t If someone with Windows just goes ahead and fixes that, we can continue enjoying great precision in our

Re: [discussion] Buildbot standard a.o or our own.

2013-01-03 Thread Andrew Rist
On 1/2/2013 2:25 AM, janI wrote: Andrea: thx for your observations. With the very low activity we have on trunk, there might be no reason for statistics. I am simply just used to a more comfortable and flexible build system. If I want to check my l10n changes on different platforms I have to

Re: Draft blog response to top 10 questions

2013-01-03 Thread Shenfeng Liu
How about this for question 8? Q: 8. When is OpenOffice going to get a visual refresh and be built with each OSes native widgets? A: Visual refresh is part of our continuous effort on user experience improvement. It is a challenge work to innovate with modern UI vs. support gradual transformation

Version 3.5 or is it 4.0 ??

2013-01-03 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, Sorry, if this is old stuff - I don't really see an answer in the mail archive (not saying it isn't there). This is kind of in response to Shenfeng Liu's response, which I just read, on the thread deailing the top 10 questions blog. He wrote: How about this for question 8? Q: 8. When is

Re: Version 3.5 or is it 4.0 ??

2013-01-03 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 1/4/13 8:29 AM, Drew Jensen wrote: Howdy, Sorry, if this is old stuff - I don't really see an answer in the mail archive (not saying it isn't there). This is kind of in response to Shenfeng Liu's response, which I just read, on the thread deailing the top 10 questions blog. He wrote:

Re: Version 3.5 or is it 4.0 ??

2013-01-03 Thread Drew Jensen
Thanks, Also, on the accessibility updates, I noted on the wiki page some dates. Looks like preliminary updates are in the current build as of Oct, but first useful updates not till next month, and full merge middle of the year - so is that the same basic timing before the UI changes will show

Re: Version 3.5 or is it 4.0 ??

2013-01-03 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 1/4/13 8:48 AM, Drew Jensen wrote: Thanks, Also, on the accessibility updates, I noted on the wiki page some dates. Looks like preliminary updates are in the current build as of Oct, but first useful updates not till next month, and full merge middle of the year - so is that the same