RE: Apache OpenOffice

2014-06-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
An alternative would be to install the free PPT viewer, which should autoplay .PPS files. -Original Message- From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2014 13:28 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Cc: Margo Haubein Subject: Re: Apache OpenOffice On Sat, 28 Jun 20

Re: Apache OpenOffice

2014-06-28 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 12:52:35 -0500 "Margo Haubein" wrote: > can it be used with win. 8.1? can PPS files on email be opened? Yes, it can be used on 8.1. I don't think pps files from emails will autoplay; as far as I know, you can rename them to .ppt and show then as a manual slideshow. --

Apache OpenOffice

2014-06-28 Thread Margo Haubein
can it be used with win. 8.1? can PPS files on email be opened?

Re: Code snippets from oooforum in AOO website?

2014-06-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
jan i wrote: Just because the dns name expires the site remains active, adressable by ip addr. It's on shared hosting so one would still have to associate it to 207.7.148.2 in the hosts file or such, but indeed you make an important point; oooforum.org is three things: a domain, a website and

Re: Code snippets from oooforum in AOO website?

2014-06-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/28/2014 10:21 AM, jan i wrote: On 28 June 2014 14:58, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 15/06/2014 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 06/14/2014 05:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: It seems http://oooforum.org/ is still unresponsive. ... Why do you need to hear from Ed before you mirror the d

Re: cleaning up our sourceforge top-level directory

2014-06-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/05/2014 Andrea Pescetti wrote: Herbert Duerr wrote: The "localized" and "stable" folders only provide the old 3.2.x, 3.3.0 and 3.4.x releases, so getting more than 28000 weekly downloads there is an alarming signal. ... This could be our fault too. It seems that "localized" is mainly used

Re: questions about crash reporting, error report tool

2014-06-28 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 27/05/2014 Kay Schenk wrote: > >> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/CrashReporting >> is no longer a default in our binaries? >> Is this correct? >> > > Correct. > > > Is this the same thing that's called the "Error Report Tool" in the

Re: questions about crash reporting, error report tool

2014-06-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/05/2014 Kay Schenk wrote: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/CrashReporting is no longer a default in our binaries? Is this correct? Correct. Is this the same thing that's called the "Error Report Tool" in the application help? It is. The last discussion I could find about this: http:

Re: Stale static text on AOO download page

2014-06-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
V Stuart Foote wrote: The downloads landing page ( http://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html ) has some rather stale text Fixed, thanks. Note that the landing page for user downloads is http://www.openoffice.org/download/ ; the one you cited is mostly for people interested in our source cod

Re: Reporting broken download link

2014-06-28 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 09:28:23 +0100 Strand House wrote: > I want to download the latest version Open Office and select > Windows and English (British) language and version 4.1.0 but > the download link does not lead to a valid page. Browser > used is Chrome v 35.0 What's wrong with http://so

Re: Code snippets from oooforum in AOO website?

2014-06-28 Thread jan i
On 28 June 2014 14:58, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 15/06/2014 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > >> On 06/14/2014 05:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> >>> It seems http://oooforum.org/ is still unresponsive. ... >>> >> Why do you need to hear from Ed before you mirror the data. ... I >> >> did send

Stale static text on AOO download page

2014-06-28 Thread V Stuart Foote
The downloads landing page ( http://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html ) has some rather stale text, see stale_AOO_download_text . Could someone with permissions touch it up. Regards, Stuart -- View this

Re: Code snippets from oooforum in AOO website?

2014-06-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/06/2014 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 06/14/2014 05:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: It seems http://oooforum.org/ is still unresponsive. ... Why do you need to hear from Ed before you mirror the data. ... I did send an email to all of the email accounts that I have for him. If he does n

Reporting broken download link

2014-06-28 Thread Strand House
I want to download the latest version Open Office and select Windows and English (British) language and version 4.1.0 but the download link does not lead to a valid page. Browser used is Chrome v 35.0 *Browser variables* *Values* navigator.appCodeName Mozilla navigator.appName Nets

Re: Request for student opportunity to work on Apache OpenOffice

2014-06-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/06/2014 Sama, Sowmya wrote: My name is Sowmya and my teammates are Keerthana Aravamudhan(karavamud...@luc.edu) and Sathyashree Narasimha (snarasi...@luc.edu). We are currently pursuing our degree at Loyola University Chicago. Welcome! OpenOffice can indeed offer you many opportunities for