Re: [dev] OOo Digital Signatures

2006-10-19 Thread Mathias Bauer
Rene Engelhard wrote: We should try to get rid of the Mozilla crap If you want to be taken serious you should stop to use offending words like the ones above. If you have some valid complaints about Mozilla or the way how we use you can do this in a civilized manor. The problem is not Mozilla

Re: [dev] OOo Digital Signatures

2006-10-19 Thread Oliver Braun
Hi Malte, Malte Timmermann wrote: On other platforms there is no global key store, that's the reason why we have chosen to rely on a Mozilla profile. what about GNOME keyring, Apple KeyChain, .. ? I think this assumption is no longer valid. - Oliver

Re: [dev] OOo Digital Signatures

2006-10-19 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi Rene, We should try to get rid of the Mozilla crap (remember: we still are shipping a unmaintained, old, unsupported, security-buggy version), also for LDAP access, but that's an other story... Glad to hear you volunteer to work on this, it is definitely most welcome. For both the

Re: [dev] OOo Digital Signatures

2006-10-19 Thread Malte Timmermann
You might be true about Apple (which is not in my personal focus - any volunteers?), but some GNOME stuff doesn't help for people using KDE or other things... Malte. Oliver Braun wrote, On 10/19/06 08:55: Hi Malte, Malte Timmermann wrote: On other platforms there is no global key store,

Re: [dev] OOo Digital Signatures

2006-10-19 Thread Joachim Lingner
The area of certificate verification is very complex. There are different RFCs and other specifications, as well as different requirements in separate countries (e.g. German Signature Law). I haven't seen so far a statement that either Microsoft or Mozilla guarantee 100 % compliance to a

Re: [dev] OOo Digital Signatures

2006-10-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Mathias Bauer wrote: Rene Engelhard wrote: We should try to get rid of the Mozilla crap If you want to be taken serious you should stop to use offending words like the ones above. If you have some valid complaints about Mozilla or the

Re: [dev] OOo Digital Signatures

2006-10-19 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: We should try to get rid of the Mozilla crap (remember: we still are shipping a unmaintained, old, unsupported, security-buggy version), also for LDAP access, but that's an other

Re: [dev] Possible exploit potential in openoffice

2006-10-19 Thread Charles Schulz
Hello James, you may want to post it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Charles. James Courtier-Dutton a écrit : James Courtier-Dutton wrote: scanelf is a tool one can use to find which programs have an executable stack. For security reasons, and executable stack should be avoided if at all

Re: [dev] Possible exploit potential in openoffice

2006-10-19 Thread Stephan Bergmann
James Courtier-Dutton wrote: James Courtier-Dutton wrote: scanelf is a tool one can use to find which programs have an executable stack. For security reasons, and executable stack should be avoided if at all possible. scanelf -Rqe /usr/lib/openoffice/* results in a lot of openoffice having an

[dev] MS Office plugin?

2006-10-19 Thread Bojan Stojanovic
Hello guys, Why don't developers make some plugin for MS Office so it could open *.odt and other OpenOffice files? It's a problem, when someone make and send *.otd file in a e-mail, when receipent doesn't have OpenOffice installed. Often a receipent don't know or doesn't want to install

[dev] Re: [discuss] Spellchecker development

2006-10-19 Thread Pavel Janík
From: Jan Breuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:48:16 +0200 Hello Jan, I partially stripped CC: list to relevant lists only. Could you provide me some detailed documents(info) about above mentioned points and other interesting materials (desings etc.) about

Re: [dev] A word about (missing) Specification Documents and (late) Feature Mails

2006-10-19 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Frank, On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 12:35 +0200, Frank Schönheit wrote: In this case, Uwe would have told you that various documentation would need to be updated, to keep the product consistent So - my experience is that the more people involved in a decision - the less likely any decision

Re: [dev] A word about (missing) Specification Documents and (late) Feature Mails

2006-10-19 Thread David Wilson
On Friday 20 October 2006 7:14 am, Michael Meeks wrote:  As I say, of the ~million or so users that have been exposed to the outdated help in this area, none I know of have noticed or cared enough to actually file a bug. In general people are amazed when they find a help system actually

Re: [dev] OOo Digital Signatures

2006-10-19 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Malte, On Thursday, 2006-10-19 09:53:52 +0200, Malte Timmermann wrote: You might be true about Apple (which is not in my personal focus - any volunteers?), but some GNOME stuff doesn't help for people using KDE or other things... GnuPG, window manager independent, runs on quite a few