Re: [steering-discuss] Fwd: Re: LibO Drupal site

2010-11-14 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Florian Effenberger wrote on 2010-11-09 11.52: Forwarding in agreement with James to this public list What are your thoughts on this? I'll try to sum up the current discussion: - basically, crediting a commercial contributor the same way we do it for noncommercial contributors is fine

Re: [steering-discuss] Community bylaws

2010-11-14 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) Could i have permission to proofread the draft community bye-laws purely from a grammatical and punctuation viewpoint, and make the necessary corrections, so as to eliminate these little things from your debate, so that people can be discussing just the real meat of the matter? David

Re: [steering-discuss] Community bylaws

2010-11-14 Thread David Nelson
Hi, :-) On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 01:07, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Le Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:30:58 +0800, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz a écrit : Hi, :-) Could i have permission to proofread the draft community bye-laws purely from a grammatical and

Re: [tdf-discuss] Discussing basic QA processes

2010-11-14 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
André Schnabel schrieb: I just realized, that Thorsten initiated a quite similar discussion Hi, may be campaigners with special interests QA / Bug confirming should join list on http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/QA_Team Rainer -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to

[tdf-discuss] On the Future of TDF

2010-11-14 Thread Mirek M.
Hi everyone, I've been meaning to write this e-mail for a while now, but haven't gotten around to it until now -- I hope it's still relevant. The Next Decade Manifesto and the recent press release (available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/announce/msg00016.html for those who haven't

Re: [tdf-discuss] On the Future of TDF

2010-11-14 Thread Gianluca Turconi
Il 14/11/2010 12.25, Mirek M. ha scritto: I'd really like to see Linux become the primary platform to focus on (yes, Linux has a much smaller user base than Windows, but that will never change if software companies keep favoring Windows). For Linux, OpenOffice.org (going forward LibreOffice) is

Re: [tdf-discuss] On the Future of TDF

2010-11-14 Thread Graham Lauder
On Monday 15 Nov 2010 00:39:09 Gianluca Turconi wrote: Il 14/11/2010 12.25, Mirek M. ha scritto: I'd really like to see Linux become the primary platform to focus on (yes, Linux has a much smaller user base than Windows, but that will never change if software companies keep favoring

Re: [tdf-discuss] Apply button

2010-11-14 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Ian, hi RGB ES (???)! During the analysis of special use cases within the Renaissance project, this has been one of the TOP10 issues. But, the basic idea behind this dialog is different (tweaking). The software misses an efficient tool to set the position of objects easily. Partly, this is

Re: [tdf-discuss] On the Future of TDF

2010-11-14 Thread Mirek M.
2010/11/14 Graham Lauder yori...@openoffice.org On Monday 15 Nov 2010 00:39:09 Gianluca Turconi wrote: Il 14/11/2010 12.25, Mirek M. ha scritto: I'd really like to see Linux become the primary platform to focus on (yes, Linux has a much smaller user base than Windows, but that will

Re: [tdf-discuss] On the Future of TDF

2010-11-14 Thread Gianluca Turconi
Il 14/11/2010 14.04, Mirek M. ha scritto: What I meant was that, instead of focusing to make LibO work the best on Windows, leaving the Mac and Linux a step behind (for example, so far, it's pretty laborious to even install LibO beta 2 on Linux, while it's really easy to install on Windows), TDF

Re: [tdf-discuss] Apply button

2010-11-14 Thread RGB ES
2010/11/14 Christoph Noack christoph.no...@documentfoundation.org: RGB ES (???)! Put a physicists, and amateur photographer and a native Spanish speaker in one person and you will have a good nickname ;) During the analysis of special use cases within the Renaissance project, this has been

Re: [tdf-discuss] FreeDesktop Bugzilla

2010-11-14 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
If I may? I envision a *simple* web app which allows me to a) upload an .odt, .doc, or .docx document and b) chose whether it causes 1) crashes or 2) document conversion problems c) allow to add a comment (it crashes for this document, but only when using font X) d) optionally add an email

Re: [tdf-discuss] FreeDesktop Bugzilla

2010-11-14 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Michel! Am Samstag, den 13.11.2010, 18:01 -0500 schrieb Michel Gagnon: Le 2010-11-12 22:20, Duane a écrit : On 11/12/2010 06:43 PM, Michel Gagnon wrote: I don't know about others, but I, for one, NEVER send those automated crash reports. It feels a bit like big brother watching over

Re: [tdf-discuss] Apply button

2010-11-14 Thread Ian Lynch
Concerning the dialog - yes, it might help. But if an Apply button gets added, then - in perceived 99% of all cases - the dialog will just hide the object that gets transformed. Just move the dialogue to the side of the screen. Inkscape seems to manage this situation well enough. With

Re: [tdf-discuss] Apply button

2010-11-14 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Ian! Am Sonntag, den 14.11.2010, 17:34 + schrieb Ian Lynch: Concerning the dialog - yes, it might help. But if an Apply button gets added, then - in perceived 99% of all cases - the dialog will just hide the object that gets transformed. Just move the dialogue to the side of the

[tdf-discuss] Suggestion to expand user base: enable screenplay formatting with LibreOffice

2010-11-14 Thread Alan C. Baird
Proposal for significantly enlarging LibreOffice's user base with Screenwright(R) 14 November 2010 by Alan C. Baird, prizewinning writer and creator of the Screenwright(R) screenplay formatter [winner of the Sun/OOo CIP award] http://w.9TimeZones.com/avails.htm

Re: [tdf-discuss] Suggestion to expand user base: enable screenplay formatting with LibreOffice

2010-11-14 Thread Robert Derman
Alan C. Baird wrote: Proposal for significantly enlarging LibreOffice's user base with Screenwright(R) 14 November 2010 by Alan C. Baird, prizewinning writer and creator of the Screenwright(R) screenplay formatter [winner of the Sun/OOo CIP award] http://w.9TimeZones.com/avails.htm

Inkscape vs. Draw (was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Apply button)

2010-11-14 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Ian, just a few thoughts ... some other topics made my spare time reserve disappear :-) Am Sonntag, den 14.11.2010, 20:30 + schrieb Ian Lynch: From my point-of-view, this is different. Inkscape is a graphic tool that is used by experienced designers. We may assume that those guys do

Re: [tdf-discuss] On the Future of TDF

2010-11-14 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Gianluca Turconi wrote: However, I've heard and read several comments about this matter and I'd like to see a (somehow) official statement that confirms LibO will be a multiplatform software *forever*. Hi Gianluca, asking for a *forever* promise is maybe a bit too much - but rest assured

Re: [tdf-discuss] FreeDesktop Bugzilla

2010-11-14 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Sebastian Spaeth wrote: I envision a *simple* web app which allows me to a) upload an .odt, .doc, or .docx document and b) chose whether it causes 1) crashes or 2) document conversion problems c) allow to add a comment (it crashes for this document, but only when using font X) d)

[tdf-discuss] Re: Digest of discuss@documentfoundation.org issue 87 (2846-2859)

2010-11-14 Thread Jih-Yao Lin
When will be the Libreoffice 3.3 Beta 3? 在 2010-11-14,上午3:00, discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org 写道: Topics (messages 2846 through 2859): [tdf-discuss] Updates overwriting User settings 2846 - Robert Derman robert.der...@pressenter.com [tdf-discuss] Re: Updates overwriting User

[tdf-discuss] Re: Suggestion to expand user base: enable screenplay formatting with LibreOffice

2010-11-14 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-14 17:12, Robert Derman a écrit : I remember mentioning in a recent email that I thought that with its corporate leaning OOo might end up tailored for lawyers and accountants and LO would end up being oriented to screenwriters, novelists, musicians/composers. In other words LO would

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Suggestion to expand user base: enable screenplay formatting with LibreOffice

2010-11-14 Thread Andy Brown
On Sun Nov 14 2010 21:20:47 GMT-0800 (PST) Marc Paré wrote: Le 2010-11-14 17:12, Robert Derman a écrit : I remember mentioning in a recent email that I thought that with its corporate leaning OOo might end up tailored for lawyers and accountants and LO would end up being oriented to

[tdf-discuss] Re: Suggestion to expand user base: enable screenplay formatting with LibreOffice

2010-11-14 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-15 00:43, Andy Brown a écrit : Re: music through Draw for musical notation. I think this would only be of value for the most basic of work. There are already many good music software programmes out in the OSS world. I don't think that LibreOffice could ever make a name for itself

Libreoffice 3.3 Beta 3 (was Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Digest of discuss@documentfoundation.org issue 87 (2846-2859)

2010-11-14 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Lin, Jih-Yao Lin wrote (15-11-10 05:52) When will be the Libreoffice 3.3 Beta 3? From what I heard, I would say this week or the next one. (No guarantee, but yes, rather soon.) Regards, Cor -- - giving openoffice.org its foundation :: The Document Foundation - -- Unsubscribe