[dev] contribution

2007-02-07 Thread Lawrence Quinn
hi, I would like to help this (these) project(s). I have skills as both a programmer and a technical writer. If you have needs in either area, let me know. Lawrence Quinn - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[dev] Help required to start work

2007-02-07 Thread ahmed.muaz
Dear Development support of Open Office We want to join the open office project. Our language is Urdu and the project will be under the supervision of the research center CRULP (Center of Research for Urdu Language Processing www.crulp.org http://www.crulp.org/ ). This center is in National

Re: [dev] Re: Openoffice bean throwing error while saving in old file format.

2007-02-07 Thread Mathias Bauer
priyanka schrieb: I have gone through all the sample code I could find, and I still get a com.sun.star.task.ErrorCodeIOException... i want to save this code just as an Openoffice document ..it still gives the same exception ... xStorable.storeAsURL(C:\\test.odt,storeProps); You have

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Hi Ruediger, Rüdiger Timm wrote: That's a joke, isn't it? From my point of view of course it has to be (according to your numeration) 1. 4. 5. 2. 3. Why would you copy additional stuff into binfilter? We did enormous efforts to get that monster stripped, and you plan to blow it up

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Hi Mathias, Mathias Bauer wrote: I think the problem is that you can't give a fixed order for 2,3 and 4. This must be checked for every single case. Perhaps Kay should point this out in the wiki. I disagree here. Actually the right order is 2,3,4: 3 certainly comes after two, as copying parts

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Hi Heiner, Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote: Thorsten Behrens wrote: b) move _all_ modules below binfilter into that module, possibly after stripping them to the necessary minimum. Build it once, and tuck it into a safe place (comes close to a, but is smaller integrates with OOo3).

[dev] OOo Wiki: Categories Overview

2007-02-07 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Hi guys, it seems this is the best list to discuss OOo wiki topics. In my view, the wiki could be somewhat more organized. E.g. it seems that anybody has a different plan and list of categories. To get this more in order I created a page listing the categories we are using, adding short

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Ruediger, Rüdiger Timm wrote: Sorry, now I see your other mails. Looks loke a mail server problem. I saw the mails appearing in reverse order as well, did not expect you to answer sooo fast :-) Rüdiger Kay - To

Re: [dev] OOo Wiki: Categories Overview

2007-02-07 Thread Stephan Bergmann
Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: Hi guys, it seems this is the best list to discuss OOo wiki topics. In my view, the wiki could be somewhat more organized. E.g. it seems that anybody has a different plan and list of categories. To get this more in order I created a page listing the

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi Kay, Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: FYI Matthias Huetsch, Malte Timmermann, Michael Brauer and I recently had a discussions regarding how to deal with binfilter in case of incompatible changes of modules used by binfilter. I am still wondering why nobody invited me to

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Armin, Armin Le Grand wrote: I do, but what about the suggestion? Repeating here: Comparing the costs spent up to now by all and that will be spent until the goal is reached, i again have to suggest (as years ago) to do it once, by one person and for the next public release. The resulting

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Malte Timmermann
Armin Le Grand wrote, On 02/07/07 11:40: Freeze means: Add all still missing and urgently necessary C++ dependencies methodically: Link without the standard modules and add missing code. Yes, this might take a while and is not easy but might have been done by one person

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi Rüdiger, Rüdiger Timm wrote: Armin Le Grand wrote: [...] I haven't read that restriction anywhere. Kays proposal was about any incompatible change below binfilter. It's not a restriction, it's logic. Why else should code be moved to binfilter ATM? Kay is right because

Re: [dev] Extending the binfilter Module

2007-02-07 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi Malte and Kay, i will also answer Kay's reply here, he was just asking for the amount of work, too... Malte Timmermann wrote: I also prefer making binfilters completely independent from any other OOo code. Constrain is to keep it as small as possible. It might be difficult to

[dev] File | Open default file type

2007-02-07 Thread Allen Pulsifer
The following enhancement requests are all related: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10048 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=19918 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=67163 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70421 (and for a counterview, see

[dev] Development at a Glance - Weekly Update CW06

2007-02-07 Thread Dieter Loeschky
Hi, here is the weekly update for calendar week (CW) 06: CW06 http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/development_at_a_glance_weekly11 Regards, Dieter -- Sun Microsystems GmbH Dieter Loeschky Nagelsweg 55Senior Manager Software Engineering 20097 Hamburg

[dev] OOo Security Enhancements?

2007-02-07 Thread Malte Timmermann
Based on the article In-depth analysis of the viral threats with OpenOffice.org documents, published in Journal in Computer Virology, I had some discussions on how OOo security can be further improved. I have put some information here:

RE: [dev] File | Open default file type

2007-02-07 Thread Allen Pulsifer
An alternate suggestion (if it is easier) is have File | Open default to All documents rather than All Files (*.*). The reason is that novice users are clicking on document types such as .pdf's and getting a confusing error message. OOo should not by default list unsupported document types in