[dev] Extending the new StartCenter

2008-03-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Philipp, Frank, Stella, As a Mac user I tested the OOo300 build with the new StartCenter and I must say I'm very impressed. This has created a Wow effect to everyone I showed it. I am actually so impressed that I would like to see this start center replacing the standard StartModule on

Re: [dev] Extending the new StartCenter

2008-03-03 Thread Philipp Lohmann
The StartCenter is already cross platform (not Mac only), so I gues we can consider that point checked :-) Kind regards, pl Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Philipp, Frank, Stella, As a Mac user I tested the OOo300 build with the new StartCenter and I must say I'm very impressed. This has created a

Re: [dev] Extending the new StartCenter

2008-03-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Ahah! That was absolutely not obvious on the GULLFOSS blog entry though (you had only pointed out to the specific Aquavcl05). Great news then! thanks, Charles. Le 3 mars 08 à 15:26, Philipp Lohmann a écrit : The StartCenter is already cross platform (not Mac only), so I gues we can

Re: [dev] Extending the new StartCenter

2008-03-03 Thread Peter Burow
Charles-H. Schulz schrieb: Philipp, Frank, Stella, As a Mac user I tested the OOo300 build with the new StartCenter and I must say I'm very impressed. This has created a Wow effect to everyone I showed it. I am actually so impressed that I would like to see this start center replacing the

Re: [dev] RFC: java 1.5

2008-03-03 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:37 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: what are your opinions on making java 1.5 a requirement for OOo 3.0? Unfavorable. (this is a personal opinion) OOo is often strongly criticized by its weight (bloat) and slowliness (bloat). This would just add to it. I always considered

Re: [dev] RFC: java 1.5

2008-03-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hi, Le 3 mars 08 à 15:59, Hubert Figuiere a écrit : On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:37 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: what are your opinions on making java 1.5 a requirement for OOo 3.0? Unfavorable. (this is a personal opinion) If -and only if- this question is framed in that way, I am also

Re: [dev] Implementation details of spreadsheet function TEXT

2008-03-03 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Andreas, On Friday, 2008-02-29 01:21:04 +0100, Andreas Saeger wrote: Using a German user interface of OOo 2.3.1 by Sun under Linux I can get a format string from German number format code =TEXT($A$1;-MM-TT) In fact that is not related to the UI language of the program, but the locale

Re: [dev] RFC: java 1.5

2008-03-03 Thread Malte Timmermann
Thorsten Behrens wrote, On 03/03/08 17:21: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 04:08:16PM +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:37 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: what are your opinions on making java 1.5 a requirement for OOo 3.0? Unfavorable. (this is a personal opinion) If -and only

Re: [dev] RFC: java 1.5

2008-03-03 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:37 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: what are your opinions on making java 1.5 a requirement for OOo 3.0? Heck no way! -- Kohei Yoshida - OpenOffice.org Engineer - Novell, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To

[dev] User Experience Project is an Accepted Project

2008-03-03 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Congratulations User Experience (UX) Project! Last week, the Community Council unanimously supported the move of the UX project from Incubator to Accepted. The change primarily gives the project more visibility and political power. And given the importance of this project, those are not

Re: [dev] RFC: java 1.5

2008-03-03 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Hi, Le 3 mars 08 à 17:57, Malte Timmermann a écrit : Seems we have to distinguish here a little bit: It is NOT acceptable for me if I (silently) loose the meta data when not having Java. Data must be kept when loading/manipulating/storing the doc, and the user should

Re: [dev] RFC: java 1.5

2008-03-03 Thread Hubert Figuiere
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 18:24 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: In case anyone came up with a useful, professional and maintained alternative that is guaranteed to run at least on the four main platforms we could have a look on it. Without that I'd prefer to utilize Sesame. Of course somebody else

[dev] kde options ignored by configure

2008-03-03 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
Hello people, while preparing my build environment with the configure script, both the option --enable-kde=TRUE and the vairable ENABLE_KDE=TRUE (et al.) are completely ignored. I'm using the script from the source downloaded at

Re: [dev] RFC: java 1.5

2008-03-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hubert Figuiere wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 18:24 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: In case anyone came up with a useful, professional and maintained alternative that is guaranteed to run at least on the four main platforms we could have a look on it. Without that I'd prefer to utilize Sesame.