Re: [steering-discuss] Re: confcall tomorrow

2011-10-28 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all! Am Freitag, den 28.10.2011, 16:17 +0100 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: Le Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:45:38 +0200, Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com a écrit : On 10/28/2011 12:05 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: tomorrow, at 1400 UTC, the next conference call takes place. Right now,

Re: [steering-discuss] Wednesday's call

2011-10-03 Thread Christoph Noack
, Christoph Am Montag, den 03.10.2011, 09:02 +0200 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, I might not be able to join Wednesday's call until the end - I have a meeting at 1700 UTC, and the call starts at 1600 UTC. In case we have the need for a quorum, I'd like to ask my deputy Christoph

Re: [steering-discuss] Reminder: SC call tomorrow

2011-09-30 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Florian, I won't be available due to a small family ride :-) Wish you all a successful meeting! Cheers, Christoph Am Freitag, den 30.09.2011, 13:59 +0200 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, this is a short reminder that tomorrow, 1400 UTC, we will have our next SC call. Looking

Re: [steering-discuss] addition to trademark policy

2011-08-11 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Tom, all! A quick note ... mis-using the steering-discuss being an SC deputy. Am Mittwoch, den 10.08.2011, 10:35 +0100 schrieb Tom Davies: Sounds good to me but i'm curious about the Branding Team's thoughts on this. Italo? I'm not Italo, but I'm one of those who (with Bernhard, Nik,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: recent LibreOffice survey: missed opporunities

2011-08-11 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Derrick! Am Dienstag, den 09.08.2011, 23:31 -0400 schrieb Anthropornis Nordenskjoldi: Wasn't sure if I could email screenshots, so here are links to them instead. The shelf tags: http://i.imgur.com/mynbl.png The order list: http://i.imgur.com/74nJP.png Thanks - indeed, attachments are

Re: [steering-discuss] decision on screenshots

2011-08-07 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Florian, sorry if this turns out to be a discussion (here) again, but ... Am Sonntag, den 07.08.2011, 13:12 +0200 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hi Christoph, Christoph Noack wrote on 2011-08-06 14:57: Screenshots for documentation, website and marketing should preferably be taken

[steering-discuss] SC Meeting: Minutes, 2011-08-06

2011-08-06 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all, the today's meeting was (due to only few attendees, unfortunately) a very short one - here are the meeting minutes: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Steering_Committee_Meetings#Minutes_2011-08-06 SC members: Voting on the both proposals by Florian (logo/trademark policy, Windows

Re: [steering-discuss] Reminder: SC call this Saturday

2011-08-05 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Florian, all! Am Donnerstag, den 04.08.2011, 20:55 +0200 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, this is just a quick reminder that the next steering committee call is this Saturday, 1400 UTC. Thanks! :-) Please feel free to add your agenda items to the wiki:

Re: [steering-discuss] Please approve Simon Phipps as election secretary

2011-07-19 Thread Christoph Noack
Am Dienstag, den 19.07.2011, 16:39 +0200 schrieb Andre Schnabel: Hi, this was briefly discussed in our last SC-Call and in the following MC-meeting. To ease the work of the current MC and help with the BoD elections (help with communication, organization and overseeing the election

Re: [steering-discuss] wording on TDF website

2011-07-11 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Florian! Am Montag, den 11.07.2011, 16:10 +0200 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hello, I received some complaints that the wording on the TDF website (http://www.documentfoundation.org) is not accurate. While the meta tag correctly states The Document Foundation has the mission of

Re: [tdf-discuss] Poll Daily-Builds usage - we need your experience

2011-07-04 Thread Christoph Noack
1 My OS is: Linux 2 Update Info: ??? 3 I test: occasionally 4 I test for: User Experience related issues (new / changed behavior) 5 My suggestion: (for improvement) * Regular / on-demand CWS builds to separate changes (regularly, I stumbled over other issues that

[steering-discuss] Re: SC Call on Saturday

2011-06-21 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Florian! Am Dienstag, den 21.06.2011, 14:39 +0200 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hi, I might not be able to join the SC Call on Saturday, as I am on the TDF admin weekend in Munich. Christoph, can you jump in for me? Hehe, I'm visiting my sister's family as well - but should be doable

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-13 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Thorsten, all! Am Sonntag, den 12.06.2011, 17:21 +0200 schrieb Thorsten Behrens: Christoph Noack wrote: Mmh, I'm CCing Thorsten who may know whether/how this could be turned into some easy/advanced/serious hack ... Since I'm currently not that active, I don't really know what

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-13 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Charles! Am Montag, den 13.06.2011, 09:43 -0400 schrieb Charles Jenkins: Thank you for everyone who commented on this. I'm actually getting a little misty because you liked my idea... Cristoph, heck, yes! Your proposal is perfect. If only, if only we had that, I could delete Word off my

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-12 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Kazar! Am Samstag, den 11.06.2011, 20:09 -0400 schrieb adept techlists - kazar: Christoph Noack wrote: Quite some time ago, I defined the corresponding behavior so that it matches which the today's notes. The visual design: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-11 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Charles, hi Cor! Am Samstag, den 11.06.2011, 01:50 +0200 schrieb Cor Nouws: Charles Jenkins wrote (10-06-11 20:03) In LibreOffice, it appears that comments always have zero length. I would have sworn I had seen it with a selection somewhere. But maybe it only was on the old OOo wiki (1)

Re: [tdf-discuss] PinterSettins are no longer persistent (windows)

2011-03-10 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Fernand, some weeks ago I spoke with some guys at OOo and they know this problem. Because of your mail, I did a quick search both at the OOo issue tracker and the LibreOffice issue tracker. The only information (related to that) is: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33639 So

Re: [steering-discuss] Approval of our Trademark Policy

2011-03-03 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Charles, hi all! Am Donnerstag, den 03.03.2011, 16:42 +0100 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: - changes requested by Christoph: I added one sentence about the english version being the official one. As for usability, please go ahead :-) make sure people understand there's one page dedicated to

Re: RE : Re: [steering-discuss] Approval of our Trademark Policy

2011-03-03 Thread Christoph Noack
team can help you out... Sorry, Charles. Le 4 mars 2011, 12:13 AM, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.com a écrit : Hi Charles, hi all! Am Donnerstag, den 03.03.2011, 16:42 +0100 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: - changes requested by Christoph: I added one sentence about the english

Re: [steering-discuss] Approval of our Trademark Policy

2011-03-02 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Charles, thanks for the effort - besides the stuff already mentioned ... some less legal, but rather understandability related comments: * Understandability: Most of the tdf mail addresses refer to mailing lists, but le...@documentfoundation.org is just a normal mail

Notes Printing (was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Printing)

2011-02-28 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Zaphod, you are right ... this is one of the most demanded features for Writer (as far as I know). So it is already contained in my small list of proposed EasyHacks for the development. Now the downside - I wasn't able to work on this list since two weeks ... but I hope to propose these list

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: table tool bar keep open

2011-02-22 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Rick! Am Dienstag, den 22.02.2011, 09:56 +0200 schrieb Avraham Hanadari: By the way, hard to believe that this is a feature. Were that the case, in my opinion, it would appear as an option to have a given toolbar be permanent or just appear when the curser was in a certain place. Well,

Re: [tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org articles in Linux Format March 2011

2011-02-11 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Kevin! Am Freitag, den 11.02.2011, 15:35 -0500 schrieb Kevin Hunter: How fast do they WANT it to load? Both those times compare VERY favourably with MS Office and in fact on Windows OO is FASTER then MS Office for the above reason. The short answer is that the quickstarter doesn't

Re: [tdf-discuss] the Meaning of access in manifesto

2011-02-08 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Johannes, having monitored the discussion on the German list as well :-) Am Dienstag, den 08.02.2011, 22:28 +0100 schrieb Johannes A. Bodwing: Hello, what does access mean in the manifesto: to eliminate the digital divide in society by giving everyone access to office productivity tools

Re: [tdf-discuss] the Meaning of access in manifesto

2011-02-08 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Johannes! Am Dienstag, den 08.02.2011, 23:12 +0100 schrieb Johannes A. Bodwing: The manifesto should rather be our guiding principle - not so much a cookbook ;-) In the case above, I assume the local marketing teams will figure out a way to distribute LibreOffice ... to suit the needs

Re: Alternative communication platform (was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Best time for Conference Calls)

2011-02-03 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Michael! Am Donnerstag, den 03.02.2011, 19:11 +0930 schrieb Michael Wheatland: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.com wrote: ... Enough ranting ... you may remember that I talked about an open platform that provides text, voice, video, whiteboard

Alternative communication platform (was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Best time for Conference Calls)

2011-02-02 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Michael, all! Am Donnerstag, den 03.02.2011, 03:28 +0930 schrieb Michael Wheatland: Is Talkyoo a free service? This would allow others to establish accounts and host calls. The alternative is Skype, which I am a BIG fan of, which now supports group calling. Although I cannot answer the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Best time for Conference Calls

2011-01-30 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Italo, hi Michael! Am Sonntag, den 30.01.2011, 12:21 +0100 schrieb Italo Vignoli: On 01/30/2011 09:05 AM, Michael Wheatland wrote: Might I suggest That we move the times earlier in the day to around 1200-1400 GMT. Hi Michael, for me, this would make the conference calls accessible

Re: [steering-discuss] SC Vote on first members of TDF

2011-01-29 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all, Florian voted, Cor voted for Sophie ... nothing left for Christoph, except to express a double +1 as an opinion. Cheers, Christoph Am Samstag, den 29.01.2011, 10:51 +0100 schrieb Cor Nouws: Acting as deputy for Sophie: Charles-H. Schulz wrote (28-01-11 16:51) 1) approve that

Re: [tdf-discuss] Feature request for LibreOffice Impress

2011-01-22 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Chynte! Am Samstag, den 22.01.2011, 22:13 +0100 schrieb Chynte: Hi, after following this mailing list for a while, today I want to ask for your opinion about two features I miss in Impress. The first feature is linked to the custom slide shows. [...] The problem is, that the automatic

Re: [steering-discuss] Minutes of SC call 2011-01-13 for review

2011-01-15 Thread Christoph Noack
appoints a team of 4 people that will be responsible for managing the website for a trial period of two months this team consists of: * David Nelson (for textual content) * Christoph Noack (for user experience) * Ivan Miskovic (for design) * Christian Lohmaier (for infrastructure

Re: [steering-discuss] libreoffice.org e-mail accounts

2011-01-14 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all! Am Freitag, den 14.01.2011, 23:47 +0100 schrieb Christoph Noack: And if there are still some concerns, my proposal would be: forename.lastn...@community.libreoffice.org Sorry for this proposal, I totally missed Florian's earlier mail containing a statement concerning sub-domains. Bad

Re: [steering-discuss] Minutes of SC call 2011-01-13 for review

2011-01-14 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Sophie, hi André, ... Am Freitag, den 14.01.2011, 18:59 +0300 schrieb sophie: Hi André, On 14/01/2011 18:56, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Le Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:20:04 +0100, Andre Schnabelandre.schna...@gmx.net a écrit : Dear SC members, please read, review and correct the minutes

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice version for Android platform

2011-01-14 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Tom! Am Mittwoch, den 12.01.2011, 22:00 + schrieb Tom Tasche: [... OpenOffice Document Reader for Android ...] As you can see, I don't feel very comfortable with this mailing list... ;) Well, maybe you feel more comfortable when I say downloaded your app and looking forward to do

Re: [steering-discuss] libreoffice.org e-mail accounts

2011-01-14 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all! Am Freitag, den 14.01.2011, 20:45 +0100 schrieb Italo Vignoli: On 1/14/11 8:21 PM, Olivier Hallot wrote: So, nickn...@libreoffice.org Leave the mail for TDF oficials as @documetnfoundation.org I totally agree with Olivier. Just to make the concept stronger, and to protect us

Re: [tdf-discuss] LO 3.3 RC 2 - Colour for insert columns and rows in Writer

2011-01-11 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Johannes, hi Christophe! Am Donnerstag, den 06.01.2011, 17:48 +0100 schrieb Christophe Strobbe: At 10:45 3/01/2011, Johannes A. Bodwing wrote: it's about a table in writer and the icons to insert columns and rows. The colour now is yellow. I find it not a good choice because it's a pale

Re: [tdf-discuss] Using free, open microblogging

2011-01-11 Thread Christoph Noack
H Fabián, all! Forwarding this to the website list as well ... it is about offering an open alternative to Twitter on the start page. Please read Fabián's suggestion. I agree with that, that we should prefer the open alternatives ... There is already a group, you find it on the TDF website [1],

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: [tdf-discuss] Using free, open microblogging

2011-01-11 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi David, all! David, thanks for the answer ... Am Mittwoch, den 12.01.2011, 06:19 +0800 schrieb David Nelson: Hi, :-) Ivan and I discussed the choice between a Twitter widget on the home page, and an identi.ca widget, when we were working together last week, ultimately deciding on a

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: [tdf-discuss] Using free, open microblogging

2011-01-11 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi David! Am Mittwoch, den 12.01.2011, 06:37 +0800 schrieb David Nelson: Hi, :-) On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 06:31, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.com wrote: No need to trigger that ... it is available :-) Thanks to Florian, Drew, ... and many others: http

Off-topic (was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Download libreoffice button in new LibreOffice website)

2011-01-10 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Christian! Am Montag, den 10.01.2011, 19:38 +0100 schrieb Christian Lohmaier: use the source :-) Make it so! :-) Great, just great! Cheers, Christoph -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Gallery -- toggle off/on

2010-12-31 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Marc, some additional remarks to those by Regina (Thanks!). The reason for not having a x-button to close some of the window is, that the source code and the interaction concepts are very old. Just look at the selection decoration - looks quite dated ... In comparison, the task panes in

Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status

2010-12-22 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Tom! Am Mittwoch, den 22.12.2010, 10:33 + schrieb Tom Davies: Hi David :) I prefer http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/bbnG0Hny0SpccJIZsGp72A?feat=directlink because it has less information and looks prettier. Sadly, that seems to be what people want. Information confuses

Re: [steering-discuss] poll on next confcall

2010-12-06 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Florian, all, I added my votes. But just for the record - I just got the information that I'll be on a business trip during the second half of the week (being offline). Moreover, we get several furniture deliveries the days after. Thus, there won't be that much time in general :-( Cheers,

Re: next SC call TOMORROW (was: Re: [steering-discuss] poll on next SC confcall)

2010-12-01 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all! Am Mittwoch, den 01.12.2010, 10:22 +0100 schrieb Florian Effenberger: the next confcall will be TOMORROW, Thursday, at 1900 UTC. See http://www.doodle.com/aerzqaxtwydrg9w4 for your local date and time. Again, I'm sorry for being unable to join ... I'll enjoy our Christmas Party within

a bit off-topic (was: Re: [tdf-discuss] accessibility mailing list)

2010-11-30 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Christophe, hi Jonathon! Am Dienstag, den 30.11.2010, 11:42 +0100 schrieb Christophe Strobbe: Hi, At 18:13 29/11/2010, jonathon wrote: On 11/29/2010 02:14 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote: (...) It's only solution is to get Your tools and Your communication partners help You achieving

[steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] missing tomorrow's marketing call

2010-11-30 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Florian! I'm sorry as well ... since my day job is kind of insane at the moment (the amount of things to do, not the job itself *g*), I'm unable to say that I will be available that time. Thus, may anybody else be able to host the call? Am Dienstag, den 30.11.2010, 20:26 +0100 schrieb Florian

Re: [tdf-discuss] accessibility mailing list

2010-11-29 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Florian, after reading some of the replies, I still need to sort that out ;-) Am Montag, den 29.11.2010, 12:51 +0100 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Because of the missing working space for accessibility issues, I already added that topic to the Design wiki page draft some days ago [1].

Re: [tdf-discuss] Survey: Usage of LibreOffice components

2010-11-28 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Sebastian! Am Sonntag, den 28.11.2010, 19:09 +0100 schrieb Sebastian G. : I'd like to know which components are most used and maybe why others are not. If you used OpenOffice before you can include your usage data as well. I hope it's allowed to add other's peoples usage data ;-)

Re: [steering-discuss] next SC call on Saturday

2010-11-17 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all! I'm sorry, but I won't make it. We'll have some family party outside ... which means no internet access. But - this is the good side - traveling will require some time. So I can (maybe) work on the stack of oh-so-long delayed things :-) Cheers, Christoph Am Mittwoch, den 17.11.2010,

Using Tango (was: Re: [tdf-discuss] New Icon theme set)

2010-11-16 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi all! Am Dienstag, den 16.11.2010, 20:27 +1300 schrieb Graham Lauder: I agree the tango set is great however it is already shipped with OOo and LibreO as an option. (ToolsoptionsLibreOffice ViewIcon size and style) However I admit that I would like to see tango as the default. Does

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] 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 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

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] FreeDesktop Bugzilla

2010-11-13 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Johannes! Am Samstag, den 13.11.2010, 10:05 +0100 schrieb Johannes Bausch: [WinXP Crash Report Example] better: * ask the user once at the beginning if he wants to report crashes and list the information THERE * NEVER include things like the current program's memory page dump or

OOoCon 2010 Talk (was: Re: [tdf-discuss] FreeDesktop Bugzilla)

2010-11-12 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Charles! Am Freitag, den 12.11.2010, 07:43 -0500 schrieb Charles Marcus: On 2010-11-12 6:01 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: Perhaps we want a simple hash in addition to that - that combines vendor, version, platform, and so on - and that we demand - so we can detect wrong values that people

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

LibO Idea Handling (was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [tdf-discuss] priorising feature-requests [was: LO mobile phone version])

2010-11-05 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Ian, all! Before I start - I cross-post this mail to both disc...@tdf and webs...@libo, because I think it could be helpful to collect some requirements concerning the future web infrastructure. For answers, please use the original thread at disc...@tdf. Thanks! The issue: There has been a

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice UI should be tweaked, not reinvented

2010-11-03 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Gianluca! Am Mittwoch, den 03.11.2010, 09:01 +0100 schrieb Gianluca Turconi: And, as a 10 years OOo user, I usually don't talk about concepts (theory), but about productivity (reality). Cool! We are definitively on the same side. What counts is usability and productivity ... it is less

Re: [tdf-discuss] Accessibility (was Java dependency)

2010-11-03 Thread Christoph Noack
that was colour blind. My colour blind palette only covers the websafe color palette. None of the colours are in that palette. Good thinking; it would be great to ping Christoph Noack on that presumably he has thought at least a bit about it - the monochrome outline is quite good I imagine

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice UI should be tweaked, not reinvented

2010-11-02 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi T.J.! Am Dienstag, den 02.11.2010, 13:05 -0500 schrieb T. J. Brumfield: I truly believe the current approach works and should be maintained, but improved. There might be some slight tweaks in how the menus are organized. Toolbar defaults might be optimized. And the overall UI could be

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice UI should be tweaked, not reinvented

2010-11-02 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi T.J.! Am Dienstag, den 02.11.2010, 16:27 -0500 schrieb T. J. Brumfield: Restructuring the menus isn't the massive drastic change many people have talked about. I'm fine with restructuring the menus, and encourage it. However, all the Renaissance mock-ups/prototypes I've seen seem to mimic

Re: [tdf-discuss] [UI] Splash screen

2010-10-29 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Ivan, Mirek, all! I really would like to overcome my previous telegram style messages and to focus on topics like that I'm very much interested in. Sadly, time is still very limited, so (a bit late) a big thank you to all who invest a lot of time to shape these ideas (some of these are great,

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming

2010-10-29 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Ivan, thanks for the cleanup! And ... Am Samstag, den 30.10.2010, 11:01 +1300 schrieb Ivan M.: Hi all, The number of proposals has grown considerably enough to (IMO) justify their own page, so I have moved the proposals to the Branding section of the marketing wiki:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Better defaults

2010-10-28 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Sveinn! Am Donnerstag, den 28.10.2010, 07:52 + schrieb Sveinn í Felli: Anyway, I think also that a request of registration during installation [...] +1 Maybe such a popup, asking whether one would like to register and/or send usage data, should be activated a bit later than

Re: [tdf-discuss] [UI] Splash screen

2010-10-28 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Mirek! Am Donnerstag, den 28.10.2010, 18:42 +0200 schrieb Mirek M.: Hi everyone, Here's my proposal on how to replace the splash screen: http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/splash/. Here are some similar proposals that have been collected for the OOo StartCenter quite some time

Yellow Color Idea (was: Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming)

2010-10-23 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Jonathon! Am Samstag, den 23.10.2010, 09:33 + schrieb jonathon: On 10/22/2010 10:15 PM, Christoph Noack wrote: And by the way: I also included yellow color idea and updated the proposal which is based on your proposal ... a) What are the Hex values, RGB values and CYMK values

[tdf-discuss] [SC] Meeting Minutes 2010-10-20 Available

2010-10-21 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi everyone, the most recent Steering Committee meeting minutes are available: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Steering_Committee_Meetings#Minutes_2010-10-20 Agenda 2010-10-20: * Update on: get discussion about community structure started (how to define members?) *

RE: [tdf-discuss] A copy of MSOffice

2010-10-19 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi! Am Dienstag, den 19.10.2010, 19:35 +0800 schrieb Xi Embalsado: Basically, you NEED to change the UI itself. According to what I've watched in the Renaissance project of OpenOffice.org, they will try a UI that will look like the Ribbon but a more dynamic strip of UI above and below the

Re: [tdf-discuss] I like the name LibreOffice

2010-10-12 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Friedrich! Am Dienstag, den 12.10.2010, 23:01 +0200 schrieb Friedrich Strohmaier: Finally there will be several flavors of pronunciation - and good moments if they meat each other! :o)) I hope this was just a typo ;-))) Cheers, Christoph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail

[tdf-discuss] Why green? (Blog Posting Advertisement)

2010-10-10 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi everyone, just to do some selfish promotion with regard to our growing planet ... if you are interested in knowing Why green? (blue, maroon, purple), then have a look at: http://planet.documentfoundation.org/ And since the world (planet) moves on, here is the direct link to the blog posting:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Proposal for a more updated and modern standard icon theme.

2010-10-08 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Olav, just a short note concerning the icons - yes, icons are a very visible way of changing the look and the overall appearance of the office suite. I also hope that we will be possible to have some coordinated effort to improve them - e.g. why not partner with the Tango3 team? However,

Re: US Group Status ( was: Re: [tdf-discuss] Media contact for the USA )

2010-10-07 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Drew, hi all, first, I'm really looking forward to see some more activity for LibreOffice in the US :-) Am Donnerstag, den 07.10.2010, 12:00 -0400 schrieb Drew Jensen: Note for instance the name of the ML that will open US-Events, because when we get to talking about things that will happen

Re: [tdf-discuss] I like the name LibreOffice

2010-10-07 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Klaus, please don't mind that I respond to your mail ;-) Am Donnerstag, den 07.10.2010, 18:42 +0200 schrieb Klaus Doblmann: Ordinary people have just started to recognise the brand OpenOffice, it might take them years to adapt to a new name. Some minor correction - either OpenOffice.org,

Re: [tdf-discuss] I like the name LibreOffice

2010-10-07 Thread Christoph Noack
:26:21 +0200 Christoph Noack christoph.no...@documentfoundation.org wrote: [...] Am Donnerstag, den 07.10.2010, 18:42 +0200 schrieb Klaus Doblmann: Ordinary people have just started to recognise the brand OpenOffice, it might take them years to adapt to a new name. Some minor

Move and ... Re: [tdf-discuss] [WEBSITE] Improvements for the wiki?

2010-10-06 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Benjamin, all, thanks for your kind offer! But before I continue - many of you may have noticed that we know have some dedicated website mailing list. It is meant for coordination of all the web presence stuff like the Website, the Wiki, the Planet, ... So I propose to continue our discussion

Re: [tdf-discuss] [WEBSITE] Improvements for the wiki?

2010-10-06 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Nino! I try to add some thoughts to better understand what my intention is. Skipping the Wiki discussion a bit and go to ... Am Mittwoch, den 06.10.2010, 11:45 +0200 schrieb Nino Novak: [...] A wiki is a wiki is a wiki - so just set one up and let it self-organize. Do not define too

Re: [tdf-discuss] New name

2010-10-05 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Andy! Am Montag, den 04.10.2010, 17:03 -0700 schrieb Andy Brown: On Mon Oct 04 2010 16:29:37 GMT-0700 (PDT) Christoph Noack wrote: Am Montag, den 04.10.2010, 16:10 -0700 schrieb Andy Brown: On Mon Oct 04 2010 15:12:06 GMT-0700 (PDT) Christoph Noack wrote: Martin, from Oracle

Re: [tdf-discuss] New name

2010-10-05 Thread Christoph Noack
Good evening Graham! Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2010, 19:24 +1300 schrieb Graham Lauder: Thorsten, Charles and Christoph, please accept abject apologies. I shall now go hide in a hole somewheres. Oh, please do not :-) I owe you a lot of respect to state this here, really. Vice versa, please

Re: [tdf-discuss] New name

2010-10-05 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Friedrich, hi Andy! Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2010, 23:55 +0200 schrieb Friedrich Strohmaier: Indeed :-) But then we have to ask Graham, whether he is so kind to tell us where to find Martin's mail. I think Andy expects - like I do - that Oracle one of the big companies worldwide is able

Re: [tdf-discuss] TDF and KOffice

2010-10-05 Thread Christoph Noack
levels. E.g KOffice and people from TDF both work on ODF standard conformance. Christoph Noack had several talks with KOffice people regarding UX related work (although they have much better technical options that we have, they face similar problems when it comes to workflows ...). If anybody

Re: [tdf-discuss] [WEBSITE] Improvements for the wiki?

2010-10-05 Thread Christoph Noack
knew that. Thanks! Benjamin, thanks for the comments ... most appreciated! Christoph Cheers, just my 2 Cents: On Monday 04 October 2010 23:54, Christoph Noack wrote: ... Step forward, and share your thoughts, too, please! But how to get started ... I mean ... without a wiki

Re: [tdf-discuss] [WEBSITE] Improvements for the wiki?

2010-10-05 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Benjamin, I'm sorry for answering your second mail first ... I totally missed this one. So to make it easy for me, thank you very much for this (your) introduction ... and also the hint Foswiki. I'm those guys who will set up the wiki technically, will have a look at it (just for the record:

Re: [tdf-discuss] [WEBSITE] Improvements for the wiki?

2010-10-05 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Nino! Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2010, 10:08 +0200 schrieb Nino Novak: [...] On Monday 04 October 2010 23:54, Christoph Noack wrote: ... Step forward, and share your thoughts, too, please! But how to get started ... I mean ... without a wiki to document the statements. A wiki

[tdf-discuss] [WEBSITE] Improvements for the wiki?

2010-10-04 Thread Christoph Noack
Good evening everyone, the subject already tells you, this mail is about Wiki improvements. What Wiki? you might ask. Correct, there is none ... but if we want to change that, it'll be great to know what we require. Once it is set up, I'm confident that a reasonable structure will greatly help

Re: [tdf-discuss] New name

2010-10-04 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Jean! Thanks for pointing that out ... Am Dienstag, den 05.10.2010, 08:02 +1000 schrieb Jean Hollis Weber: On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 23:36 +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Graham Lauder wrote: Oracle made an interim response, do we have link to that somewhere. Martin, from Oracle,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Website status?

2010-10-04 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Jonathan! Am Montag, den 04.10.2010, 14:31 +0200 schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hi Jonathan, Am 04.10.2010 um 14:08 schrieb jzacsh: So I'm just looking for a definitive answer: Will anyone be giving us access to any way we can help with the website? I'd hate to be pushy, but I wake

Re: [tdf-discuss] Explanation . . . ?

2010-10-02 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Sophie, hi Marc! Am Samstag, den 02.10.2010, 10:21 +0200 schrieb Sophie: I don't know if I missed this or not, maybe Sophie could answer this, but, have Go-oo, OxygenOffice, NeoOffice and Symphony express any interest in joining forces with LibreOffice. I also agree that it would be