Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: x86_64 Windows build

2010-11-06 Thread Ian
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 00:09 +, jonathon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/04/2010 10:32 PM, Ian wrote: Ask how many 15 year olds have drafted an essay on their cell phone. The primary demographic that writes 携帯小説 (keitai shousetsu) is believed to be

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-11-06 Thread Ian
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 21:03 +, Caolán McNamara wrote: As far as I know, GNOME, KDE, Linux kernel and the GIMP along with masses of the little projects that makes everything work, typically get along fine without copyright assignment, though some have quirks like optional copyright

[tdf-discuss] Where is the right place for discussing new features?

2010-11-06 Thread Chynte
Hi guys, as a user of OpenOffice since years, the change to LibreOffice looks like the chance to go forward with the project as a majority (and not one company) would like to go. Since this also includes the danger that to many (not or only in rare cases useful) things are requested and done

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-11-06 Thread Roberto Resoli
2010/11/5, Caolán McNamara caol...@redhat.com: Wasn't subscribed to this list earlier, so I'll just hijack the first mail from the copyright thread to reply to to state my own opinion on copyright assignments. So, I'm not a huge fan of them No one (no authors or developer, at least) can be.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-11-06 Thread Gianluca Turconi
Il 06/11/2010 14.27, Roberto Resoli ha scritto: As I told other times, giving power to FSF or Mozilla instead of let TDF taking it, is not the best thing to do. Amen! :) Here: http://www.letturefantastiche.com/external/vertical_and_horizontal_foundations.odg I've expressed in graphical form

[tdf-discuss] where do i submit bugs?

2010-11-06 Thread Frank Esposito
Although I have been a OO user for many years, I never really cared about the development of the project because I thought Sun would never listen to just one person. Then when Oracle bought Sun, I gave up on the product entirely. Now however, with the document foundation, I actually see a real

Re: [tdf-discuss] where do i submit bugs?

2010-11-06 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Frank! Am Samstag, den 06.11.2010, 09:37 -0500 schrieb Frank Esposito: Although I have been a OO user for many years, I never really cared about the development of the project because I thought Sun would never listen to just one person. Then when Oracle bought Sun, I gave up on the product

[tdf-discuss] Re: Where is the right place for discussing new features?

2010-11-06 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-06 09:23, Chynte a écrit : Hi guys, as a user of OpenOffice since years, the change to LibreOffice looks like the chance to go forward with the project as a majority (and not one company) would like to go. Since this also includes the danger that to many (not or only in rare cases

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibO Idea Handling

2010-11-06 Thread todd rme
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2010-11-05 19:10, todd rme a écrit : From what I can see, the Ubuntu system is pretty similar in its capabilities to the KDE Forum system, although the KDE system seems to focus on idea while the Ubuntu (or ideatorrent,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-11-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 03:32:32PM +0100, Gianluca Turconi wrote: And I'm, for the life of me, now and forever, more in favor of a vertical foundation: more powers, in good hands. That's fine as long as those hands remain benevolent. Not always a good assumption. -- Bob Holtzman Key ID:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: where do i submit bugs?

2010-11-06 Thread Frank Esposito
thanks chris and Gérard, and no i am not going to make new bugs :) -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-11-06 Thread Gianluca Turconi
Il 06/11/2010 17.50, Robert Holtzman ha scritto: That's fine as long as those hands remain benevolent. Not always a good assumption. If you think so, no foundation is needed at all. -- Gianluca Turconi -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting

Re: [tdf-discuss] Copyright Assignments the Document Foundation

2010-11-06 Thread Ian
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 18:55 +0100, Gianluca Turconi wrote: Il 06/11/2010 17.50, Robert Holtzman ha scritto: That's fine as long as those hands remain benevolent. Not always a good assumption. If you think so, no foundation is needed at all. -- Gianluca Turconi To me, the main reason to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Clear separation between frontend and backend?

2010-11-06 Thread Robert Derman
Lee Hyde wrote: Greetings All, I'm just a humble end user, and frankly I have little-to-no knowledge of software development but I was wondering whether there is a clear separation between frontend and backend with LibreOffice. Such that it would make it easy to essentially 'slot-in' a

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2010-11-06 Thread bastik . public . mailinglist
Hello to all, This is my first message on this mailing list. It's my first on any mailing list. Let me introduce myself (Skip this if you like). My name is Sebastian G., but you can call me bastik. I'm German if anyone cares. You can find me on the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Clear separation between frontend and backend?

2010-11-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:58:37 -0600, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking on something similar. If it were possible to completely separate core from UI it would be great. For example, someone who knows Qt but nothing about GTK will be able to create a gui for MeeGo without messing

[tdf-discuss] Alternate find/replace

2010-11-06 Thread Craig A. Eddy
Potential problem: When searching for a word, if the various choices are not correct to find that particular word (for instance, if you have a word highlighted and it just searches that word), then changing the choices does not result in changing the behavior of the plug-in (for instance,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Clear separation between frontend and backend?

2010-11-06 Thread Jesús Corrius
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 10:58 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: I was thinking on something similar. If it were possible to completely separate core from UI it would be great. For example, someone who knows Qt but nothing about GTK will be able to create a gui for MeeGo without messing with

Re: [tdf-discuss] Clear separation between frontend and backend?

2010-11-06 Thread Alexandro Colorado
- Original message - Hi Alexandro, On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 17:28 -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: represent some advantages. Certainly the development cost will be  disipated since the toolkit would be mantained by a broader community.     Having finally rid ourselves of one

Re: [tdf-discuss] Clear separation between frontend and backend?

2010-11-06 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Alexandro, On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 21:12 -0600, Alexandro Colorado wrote: I agree with that point however this toolkit is GPL LGPL. and also has a dynamic of being adopted by other mobile platforms like meego. Wait - I think I worked on that ;-) Just to weight the pros

[tdf-discuss] Re: Where is the right place for discussing new features?

2010-11-06 Thread Wheatbix
The LibreOffice Drupal website development team is currently working on the issue of feature requests, brainstorming and idea/proposal management. If you are not aware, Drupal is a very powerful content management system which will replace the basic pages of libreoffice.org in 3-6 months. So