Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-10-28 Thread MD Otley
The Other FAQ page ( http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-other.html) needs to be updated. * Several questions (and answers) still say OpenOffice.org instead of Apache OpenOffice. * Sun is no longer an independent company.  For example, the link to the StarOffice page in the last

Re: Extensions

2013-10-28 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 10/25/13 4:59 PM, Vladislav Stevanovic wrote: I wrote: (...) live AOO because nothing works there. It should be:(...) leave AOO because nothing works there. if an author of an extension is not interested to support AOO anymore we can't change it. Juergen Wlada 2013/10/25 Vladislav

Re: [proposal] Patches on Windows

2013-10-28 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 23.10.2013 09:19, Andre Fischer wrote: On 22.10.2013 23:49, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Andre Fischer wrote: I would now like to change the build system, especially the solenv/bin/make_installer.pl script and its modules, so that the installation sets it creates can be used without further

Re: Extensions

2013-10-28 Thread Vladislav Stevanovic
if an author of an extension is not interested to support AOO anymore we can't change it. If extension is under some open source licence AND if author has no interest to maintain his extension, what is problem that we made corrections? Regards, Wlada 2013/10/28 Jürgen Schmidt

Problem with automatized profile import OO4

2013-10-28 Thread Riccardo Arzenton
Hi to all, how can i force OO4 to try to restore the previous user profile after the installation runned by a user script? I want to 1. Install OO4 2. Install some extensions that affect the user profile (the user doesn't have to configure anything) 3. If there is an old OO34 user profile,

Re: Defaults for 3D drawings

2013-10-28 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi Regina, On 27.10.2013 22:29, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi all, most (all?) attributes for 3D objects (scene, cube, sphere, extrude, rotate) and for the camera description (vrp, vpn, vup, distance, focal-length, projection) are optional in ODF1.2 but have no defaults. Before I suggest

Re: [Call for review]123515 - Import the sample PPTX(with one slide) to AOO, the shape in slide is applied a default color incorrectly ( should be transparent)

2013-10-28 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi Clarence, On 28.10.2013 03:27, Clarence GUO wrote: Armin, Seems this fill value is only for PPT, in Excel 2010 and Word 2010, I haven't seen this choice in fill type. Thanks for this infos. I would like to as you to add the infos you have already found out to the task (#123515# I

Re: Defaults for 3D drawings

2013-10-28 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Armin, it seems, I was not precise enough. My question here is not about what AOO does when using the UI or what is needed for normal user. My question is, what defaults are used, if AOO gets a file, where these attributes are not defined. (Of cause, such files have to be written

Re: Extensions

2013-10-28 Thread Vladislav Stevanovic
If you wish I might do the same for oootranslit, or if you're already in touch with the original author please make sure he/she does the update or ask him/her to send me a note. I sent a mail to the author of OooTranslit, also on forum, but he never answered. If you can, please try. Our plan A

The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-28 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Hi, The OpenDocument format (ODF) which has it's roots in OpenOffice is a good thing and it helped a lot that office productivity becomes a little bit more transparent and a step forward to become vendor independent. Ideally one standard would have been used and would evolve over time to address

Re: Extensions

2013-10-28 Thread Roberto Galoppini
2013/10/28 Vladislav Stevanovic stevanovicvladis...@gmail.com: If you wish I might do the same for oootranslit, or if you're already in touch with the original author please make sure he/she does the update or ask him/her to send me a note. I sent a mail to the author of OooTranslit, also on

Re: Submission for consultants page

2013-10-28 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: We can now argue why do we have 2 standards and can discuss the pros and cons. But does it help? I don't think so and I believe we have to live with the current situation. Sure. And we are quite used to useless duplication anyway... That is the reason why we will start

Re: Extensions

2013-10-28 Thread Vladislav Stevanovic
Why should we mark them? If there is some warning mark, visually you will in easier way to know that this extension is not compatible with AOO4.0. We can even more. We can (near that mark) add button for link to the version which can run on AOO4.0. Where we can add this marks, buttons?Before

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-28 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] That is the reason why we will start to investigate in a better OOXML support for AOO and you will probably notice some more activity in the future going in this direction. Excellent. A better Microsoft compatibility is

Re: rules for the use of the name Apache OpenOffice

2013-10-28 Thread Jörg Schmidt
From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Hello, I have been a member for Apache, but a few days before the PMC committer privileges offered me, and I see myself in the obligation *to respect* the rules of Apache. *And I will respect* the rules of Apache. But what are the

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-28 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 28/10/2013 20:38, Jörg Schmidt a écrit : Hello, From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] That is the reason why we will start to investigate in a better OOXML support for AOO and you will probably notice some more activity in the future going in this direction. Excellent.

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-28 Thread Jörg Schmidt
From: Hagar Delest [mailto:hagar.del...@laposte.net] I still believe that MS will *never* agree with a real standard. That would be the end of their lock-in policy and the loss of their market shares. Yes, that's a problem, and it is a primarily a 'political' problem. But there are also

Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-10-28 Thread Davicia Thomas-Morgan
I can't donate or downloadboo! DGT Morgan

Re: The crux with 2 open standards for more or less the same thing

2013-10-28 Thread Kay Schenk
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, The OpenDocument format (ODF) which has it's roots in OpenOffice is a good thing and it helped a lot that office productivity becomes a little bit more transparent and a step forward to become vendor independent.

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-10-28 Thread Donald Whytock
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:26 AM, MD Otley mdot...@yahoo.com wrote: The Other FAQ page ( http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-other.html) needs to be updated. * Several questions (and answers) still say OpenOffice.org instead of Apache OpenOffice. * Sun is no longer an

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-10-28 Thread Donald Whytock
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Davicia Thomas-Morgan notary2u...@gmail.com wrote: I can't donate or downloadboo! DGT Morgan Hi Davicia... Did you try http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html ? As for donating, the ASF donations page says there's a problem with Paypal

Re: AW: Apache OpenOffice @ T-DOSE

2013-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/10/2013 Arthur Buijs wrote: Afzender:RA Stehmann http://www.t-dose.org/ This year Apache OpenOffice will be present at that nice event on both days with a stand. Mechtilde and Michael hope to meet and talk to some well known and some unkown friends of Free Software and the Free Office

Apache

2013-10-28 Thread Michael Humpherys
Hi, My name is Mike and I'm interested in getting involved with the Apache Foundation projects. I'm currently leaving in eastern Iowa. I've got some experience in C++ and I'm interested in doing some work in programming and documentation. I'm just trying to figure my way around the website to see

Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

2013-10-28 Thread klintan
Hi My name is Leif Klint and I have been working with education most part of my life. The last years mostly Leadership training in Sweden (were I come from) and internationally in parts of Africa and Mongolia. Interested in many things – writing, photography, music (played tenorsax for some

Re: Extensions

2013-10-28 Thread Roberto Galoppini
2013/10/28 Vladislav Stevanovic stevanovicvladis...@gmail.com: Why should we mark them? If there is some warning mark, visually you will in easier way to know that this extension is not compatible with AOO4.0. We can even more. We can (near that mark) add button for link to the version