Re: buildbot success in ASF Buildbot on openoffice-linux64-nightly

2014-05-16 Thread Herbert Duerr
On 15.05.2014 07:54, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 08:42:12AM +, build...@apache.org wrote: Hi! , The openoffice-linux64-nightly builder has just completed a run STATUS: Success [...] This last mail was from a month ago, aren't the build bots sending this

Re: [www] NEW language Selection Dropdown!

2014-05-16 Thread Tal Daniel
Update: Languages selection dropdown is now complete. Developers and translators are called to edit the brand.mdtext variables (see instruction below), to fit their language, and edit the /templates/brand.html template with the correct phrasing for their language option within the select box.

openExpo conference in madrid june 26.

2014-05-16 Thread jan iversen
Hi. Thanks to a initative from jza, I have been invited to give one of the keynote speeches at a one day conference in madrid june 26 http://www.openexpo.es/ The event is a free entrance event, that sadly means that I have to pay travel/hotel myself. They expect 500 participants I am currently

Re: Deleting an attachment from Bugzilla

2014-05-16 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 14/05/14 21:10, Mathias Röllig wrote: Hello! Please have a look into issue 124837. Because of the content of the attached file it should be deleted immediately. we can of course delete this file but the request should come from the person who added the file. A short note in the file

Please disable 4.1.0 Update Info!

2014-05-16 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, I submitted Issue 124913 - Disable 4.1.0 Update Info https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124913 because I think that it would be irresponsible to encourage users to update to 4.1.0 with known issue. I also think that there should be a hint in 4.1.0 Release Notes under Known

Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/05/2014 Brennan Novak wrote: Here is a link explaining the current user experience flow which I experienced as a major pain point this morning trying to file my first OpenOffice bug report: https://brennannovak.com/notes/432 Thanks for this! How come you started from the SourceForge

Re: [www] NEW language Selection Dropdown!

2014-05-16 Thread Tal Daniel
On Thu, May 15, Kay Schenk wrote: OK, this is looking interesting, but...please revert this change as the next real publish is likely to make this live and we probably don't want to do this yet without further review. So, please do the following -- * copy the revised version of

Re: Stolen computer with open office work.

2014-05-16 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi On 06.05.2014 21:29, Robert Appenzeller wrote: I had my Macbook Pro stolen in Panama. Is there any way to retrieve the documents that I wrote using open office? OpenOffice does not include any functionality by default to backup created documents to an external service or in the cloud.

Re: [www] [SUGGEST] Change Native Language to Dropdown/select box

2014-05-16 Thread Tal Daniel
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.orgwrote: Tal Daniel wrote: I used only Level 2 languages, as specified at the Native Language page (http://www.openoffice.org/projects/native-lang.html). That page is outdated. [...] The best thing to do is to start with

Re: New Volunteer Note

2014-05-16 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Thomas Erickson wrote: Hello! My name is Tom, and I'm pleased to be a new volunteer QA analyst! I recently (April of 2014) received my certification in Software Quality Assurance and Testing, but am looking forward to honing my skills with hands-on work, My background has most recently been

[CODE]: proposal to integrate Google test framework as replacement for cppunit

2014-05-16 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Hi, I am currently investigating in Google's C++ test framework [1] which seems to be quite powerful and a good replacement for cppunit which has not the proper license. My idea is to use gtest as general C++ unit testing framework in our build environment and replace long term all cppunit based

Re: [CODE]: proposal to integrate Google test framework as replacement for cppunit

2014-05-16 Thread jan iversen
On 16 May 2014 15:41, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am currently investigating in Google's C++ test framework [1] which seems to be quite powerful and a good replacement for cppunit which has not the proper license. My idea is to use gtest as general C++ unit testing

Suggestion (2) for summer of code project

2014-05-16 Thread Rory O'Farrell
OpenOffice silently substitutes a 'best-fit' font if a desired font is not available. It would be helpful if the use of a substitute font was drawn to the User's attention: this might make a Summer of Code project. John_Ha (en_Forum) says: I use the TestFonts add-on to check which fonts are in

Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-16 Thread circulars
What about adding 'report a bug' as a menu item in Open Office itself - maybe under Help? If that would produce too much traffic, perhaps it could direct to a web page which encourages people to go to the users' forum first (with links through) and only to report a bug when they are sure that

Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-16 Thread circulars
Me too for the link. Would suggest that the triaging of bugs could also be usefully improved from the bug reporters perspective. Too many are still falling through into the unconfirmed black hole even when indisputably there is problem. This is ultimately discouraging for the reporter, all the

Re: [www] NEW language Selection Dropdown!

2014-05-16 Thread Kay Schenk
On 05/15/2014 02:10 PM, Tal Daniel wrote: On Thu, May 15, Kay Schenk wrote: OK, this is looking interesting, but...please revert this change as the next real publish is likely to make this live and we probably don't want to do this yet without further review. So, please do the following

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2014-05-16 Thread circulars
Thanks - Covered this in my response yesterday. The paragraph style dialogue is entirely different from the paragraph dialogue and is used for editing styles (which may include paragraph settings, obviously). - Original Message - From: Tal Daniel Sent: 05/14/14 05:18 PM To: dev Subject:

Re: extend Subject with product in emails from bugzilla

2014-05-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 07/05/2014 Mathias Röllig wrote: Is there be a possibility to extend the subject in automatic generated emails from bugzilla? ... [Issue number][product] description e. g. [Issue 0][Calc] Something wrong I agree this would be a nice improvement. But honestly I don't know if this is

I would like to volunteer as technical writer

2014-05-16 Thread archana nagarajan
Hello, I am a Middleware Administrator with vast experience on a range of products like Weblogic, Apache HTTP server, IBM Websphere MQ, JBOSs etc. I have produced a lot of documentation during my stint as technical lead for various banking/financial projects. I owe 99% of my expertise to the

Re: Brochure (booklet) printing

2014-05-16 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Uwe, Uwe Peters, NW schrieb: I used MS Office all the time and had no problems with brochure (booklet) printing on my Canon resp. Brother Printers. Since I changed completely to MAC (OS X 10.9) I use OpenOffice. Unfortunately it does not allow brochure (booklet) printing on the same

Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-16 Thread Andrew Rist
On 5/15/2014 11:22 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 08/05/2014 Brennan Novak wrote: Here is a link explaining the current user experience flow which I experienced as a major pain point this morning trying to file my first OpenOffice bug report: https://brennannovak.com/notes/432 Thanks for

Re: openExpo conference in madrid june 26.

2014-05-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/05/2014 jan iversen wrote: I have been invited to give one of the keynote speeches at a one day conference in madrid june 26 Good. I'll be terse since delivery delays are making most of the conversations here fruitless. Is there any chance we could use a bit of our budget to

Separate User Directories

2014-05-16 Thread Steele, Raymond
I am sending this question again because I did not see that it posted to the mailing list yesterday. From: Steele, Raymond Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 2:35 PM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Seperate User Directories I compiled OpenOffice and extracted the archive located at

Do I have permission?

2014-05-16 Thread kasper siig
To OpenOffice I am currently developing a website about math, where you can download spreadsheets. So I am using your software Open Office to develop those spreadsheets. My question is, am I allowed to sell those spreadsheets, so people can download them? RegardsKasper Siig

Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-05-16 Thread Bill Ryan
Hello, I have found many search engines have http:// links to your site, the http:// links do not appear to be working at the moment. I am able to get around this by modifying the URL to https:// but there are people out there who would have no idea they need to do this to get to your site so

Possible broken link: 3.4.1_checksums

2014-05-16 Thread Roland Derouen
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Re: Do I have permission?

2014-05-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/05/2014 kasper siig wrote: To OpenOffice I am currently developing a website about math, where you can download spreadsheets. So I am using your software Open Office to develop those spreadsheets. My question is, am I allowed to sell those spreadsheets, so people can download them? The

Re: [Proposal] Update Icons for AOO 4.1

2014-05-16 Thread circulars
Dave: Many thanks for your very kind reply. However it's a different dialog. The 'Paragraph Style' dialog allows all the attributes of the style the cursor happens to be in at the time to be edited - including the paragraph settings. On a mac it can only be accessed by control click, then

Suggestion (3) for summer of code project

2014-05-16 Thread Rory O'Farrell
A setting to prevent Writer hyphenating the last word on a page. Page-end hyphens are bad typesetting practice. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional

Re: Separate User Directories

2014-05-16 Thread Kay Schenk
On 05/16/2014 09:36 AM, Steele, Raymond wrote: I am sending this question again because I did not see that it posted to the mailing list yesterday. From: Steele, Raymond Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 2:35 PM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Seperate User Directories I compiled

Seperate User Directories

2014-05-16 Thread Steele, Raymond
I compiled OpenOffice and extracted the archive located at main/instsetoo_native/unxsoli4.pro/Apache_OpenOffice/archive/install/en-US/ top my /opt directory. However, it appears that during runtime of the Application the user private directory is located in /opt/openoffice4/.openoffice/4/user,

Re: Macro does not working

2014-05-16 Thread Mathias Röllig
Hello Vladislav! Am 05.05.2014 21:46, schrieb Vladislav Stevanovic: @Mathias I am sorry, I attached wrong file. Please, try to open this file and the same dialog.I get that problem is next line in my code: PronadjiArtikal.getAccessibleContext().doAccessibleAction(0) The question is: how this is

Re: Improving OpenOffice's User Experience

2014-05-16 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Hi Brennan, first of all sorry for the late response, we had a mail outage at Apache and mails are coming in with a huge delay. But anyway thanks for sharing your experience with us and proposing some good ideas how to improve this. There is indeed a lot of room for improvements. Your described

Re: New Dev Volunteer

2014-05-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/05/2014 Lewie Fitz wrote: My name is Lewie, and I am interested in doing some dev work on Open Office. Welcome, and thank you for volunteering! We have experienced delays with mail delivery, so it is possible that someone already answered, but as a basic step make sure you can build

Re: I would like to volunteer as technical writer

2014-05-16 Thread Kay Schenk
On 05/16/2014 06:05 AM, archana nagarajan wrote: Hello, I am a Middleware Administrator with vast experience on a range of products like Weblogic, Apache HTTP server, IBM Websphere MQ, JBOSs etc. I have produced a lot of documentation during my stint as technical lead for various

Re: Forward planning for OO 5.0

2014-05-16 Thread Mathias Röllig
Hello Rory! No answer till now!? Now that OO 4.1 is released (and the tidy up of loose ends is in progress), perhaps it is time to start discussion on proposals for improvements and additions to OO 5.0. Where should this best be done? Is here the best place? And how should it be discussed -

Suggestion (1) for summer of code project

2014-05-16 Thread Rory O'Farrell
Macro/extension/Add-in to indicate a section of text has been directly modified from the underlying Style. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional