[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice article on Pagina/12 - Newspaper in Argentina

2011-02-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-02-01 10:12, Martín Olivera a écrit : http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/cdigital/31-161508-2011-02-01.html ENGLISH Google-en translated: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pagina12.com.ar%2Fdiario%2Fcdigital%2F31-161508-2011-02-01.html Gracias Martín

[tdf-discuss] Re: Fwd: [marketing] About.com 2011 Readers' Choice Awards - Nominations are Open

2011-01-13 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-01-13 09:43, Nguyen Vu Hung a écrit : On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Funny, I just sent a post to the list just now about this. Yes, just put in LibreOffice in you choice. I also put in "LibreOffice.org" so that they could note the website.

[tdf-discuss] Re: Fwd: [marketing] About.com 2011 Readers' Choice Awards - Nominations are Open

2011-01-13 Thread Marc Paré
Funny, I just sent a post to the list just now about this. Yes, just put in LibreOffice in you choice. I also put in "LibreOffice.org" so that they could note the website. Cheers Marc -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.docu

[tdf-discuss] About.com readers choice awards on "Favorite Alternatives to PowerPoint"

2011-01-13 Thread Marc Paré
I just go this in my email box. You may want to add your choice to the awards page. It will give us a little more presence if we are picked in any ranking. Let's make a difference. http://presentationsoft.about.com/library/blnominate.htm Thanks for taking part in the awards nomination. Note: th

[tdf-discuss] Re: Links on LibreOffice.org/templates page

2011-01-10 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-01-10 13:49, Marc Paré a écrit : FYI, the links on the templates page. One kicks you off our site and the other opens another tab/window. We should have them both behaving the same way. I prefer opening up a new tab/window and leaving our members on our site but I think the W3C way is to

[tdf-discuss] Links on LibreOffice.org/templates page

2011-01-10 Thread Marc Paré
FYI, the links on the templates page. One kicks you off our site and the other opens another tab/window. We should have them both behaving the same way. I prefer opening up a new tab/window and leaving our members on our site but I think the W3C way is to more on to the link website which, in t

[tdf-discuss] Re: [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-01-10 13:02, David Nelson a écrit : Hi Marc, Drew, Sophie, :-) Where you addressing me, Marc? I'm assuming so. ;-) My take would be this: I don't personally *want* the Nabble/forums to be independent of the libreoffice.org site or the LibreOffice project. I specifically see forums or a

[tdf-discuss] Re: [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-01-10 13:04, sophie a écrit : Hi Marc, On 10/01/2011 20:31, Marc Paré wrote: [...] Before you read the next lines, I have to say that I will most likely not be using the right terminology and hope you understand my point(s). Well, then, would both Drew and Sophie be against having

[tdf-discuss] Re: [Forum]How will the forum be organized?

2011-01-10 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-01-10 11:56, sophie a écrit : Hi Drew, On 10/01/2011 19:41, drew wrote: [...] Slightly off topic but it is part of this issue: As to the question of a single monolithic view of the project, all things LibreOffice will be at one domain, this is a basic assumption that I an not willing to

[tdf-discuss] Re: Templates unavailable at templates.services.openoffice.org

2011-01-10 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-01-10 11:46, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, :-) I removed the link. But this leaves us with a hole to fill in our offering... David Nelson I'll try to supply you with a couple more links once the OOo template site is reachable. It is down at the moment. There are a couple of sites with

[tdf-discuss] Re: Templates unavailable at templates.services.openoffice.org

2011-01-10 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-01-10 10:51, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, :-) In any case, Marc Paré has started work on accumulating some templates and storing them at [1] He seems to be very cautious from the licensing viewpoint. But I hope that we will start building up our own collection within a short time... [1

[tdf-discuss] Re: Just make the damn thing work! (was Re: Dictionary Syncing)

2011-01-04 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Rogerio: Le 2011-01-04 17:50, Rogerio Luz Coelho a écrit : In Brazil the leading dictionary is VERO (BrOffice's - LibreOffice default) the only one that ships with most of our new orthography ... so it IS possible for FOSS to bring a BETTER thing to the table, we in Brasil are no longer runni

[tdf-discuss] Re: Addons

2011-01-04 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-01-04 04:30, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : As for Marc's earlier message: the decision was to use Silverstripe. Trying to get around it by pointing out that more volunteers want to work on a different CMS overlooks two things: - the legitimity of the decision : you basically claim that no

[tdf-discuss] LibreOffice 3.3 Release Party wiki page -- Let's celebrate our distro!

2011-01-03 Thread Marc Paré
This is just another gentle reminder of our "LibreOffice 3.3 Release Party" wiki page. If you are planning on holding a release party or just celebrating our latest LibreOffice distro, feel free to advertise the date and location on the "LibreOffice Release 3.3 Release Party" wiki page.[1] You

[tdf-discuss] Re: Drupal discussion once more :-( [was: Addons]

2011-01-03 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-01-03 16:38, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : Thanks for note Bernhard. So great, let's get back to site building and quit this vitriol jousting over the Drupal site. If the SC had NNOT called for a Drupal example over the next 6 months, then the Sc would certainly not have let the Drupal

[tdf-discuss] Re: Addons

2011-01-03 Thread Marc Paré
Disclaimer: I am on the Drupal team and think that this is the better solution for the LibreOffice CMS solution. As this conversation just seems to be going in circles, could we just leave it to the fact that the SC did voice its decision that the Drupal solution was to be reviewed at a later

[tdf-discuss] Re: Test documents to compare interoperability [was: Do not support writing to OOXML format]

2011-01-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-01-02 21:53, Andy Brown a écrit : On Sun Jan 02 2011 18:43:41 GMT-0800 (PST) Andy Brown wrote: On Sun Jan 02 2011 18:31:07 GMT-0800 (PST) todd rme wrote: Koffice (I guess Calligra now) already has a set of ms office test documents. See here: http://158.36.191.251:8080/viewLog.html?bui

Re: [tdf-discuss] Do not support writing to OOXML format

2011-01-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-01-01 17:19, Italo Vignoli a écrit : On 01/01/2011 07:52 PM, Carl Symons wrote: I clicked on the "list of events" link on http://www.documentfoundation.org/. There are several events listed for North America. Would TDF consider being at LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, 4/30& 5/1? Ther

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

2011-01-01 Thread Marc Paré
ecorators), that they are used differently (task panes for Impress only). Let's sum it up that way - there is plenty to do for both the devs and the UX design team ;-) Cheers, Christoph Am Montag, den 27.12.2010, 09:30 -0500 schrieb Marc Paré: Yes you are right. One looses sight that it is a dock

[tdf-discuss] Re: Dictionary Syncing

2010-12-31 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-31 05:51, James Clemence a écrit : A major feature I find irritating in word processors is the lack of dictionary syncing between multiple machines. I have a laptop, desktop, and occasional use of other machines, and would really like to be able to take my dictionary with me. Whilst I

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

2010-12-27 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-27 07:03, Regina Henschel a écrit : Hi Marc, Marc Paré schrieb: I was just looking at the Gallery clipart window and this reminded me of a question that I had always wanted to ask. Why is there not an " x " to click on to close the gallery window? The window is docked

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

2010-12-27 Thread Marc Paré
I was just looking at the Gallery clipart window and this reminded me of a question that I had always wanted to ask. Why is there not an " x " to click on to close the gallery window? Most of the other tool bars, windows etc. have an " x " in the right hand corner to exit that particular area w

[tdf-discuss] Looking for Canadians

2010-12-26 Thread Marc Paré
[2]. I have created the Canadian section and have linked sites that I think would help in the distribution of the distro. If you are interested, feel free to join up. Marc Paré Marc Paré [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/US-Marketing [2] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org

[tdf-discuss] Re: [website][drupal] The Drupal website development update - December 2010

2010-12-21 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-21 23:26, Wolf Halton a écrit : Michael, When I look at my own web logs, I see a majority of windows +/- 40%, next highest is unknown +/- 20% and third is linux +/- 15 in that unknown is a (probably) a lot of smartphone action. I know there are a lot of people browsing anonymously, b

[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice 3.3 final & portable version

2010-12-16 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-15 09:52, Marius Popa a écrit : When LibreOffice 3.3 final and portable version will be released? The final release is not set yet, the LibreOffice RC2 should be out pretty soon. I believe the portable version is done by another group, Portableapps.com, but that yes it will eventu

[tdf-discuss] Re: TDF/LO on a wrong way?

2010-12-16 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-15 07:37, Johannes A. Bodwing a écrit : Hi Marc, here just the first point. The more I try to understand TDF/LO I understand it less. What I think to know about it at the moment is: ~ TDF has a mission. In short: to build better conditions for a community, like it is said on the TD

[tdf-discuss] Re: International support

2010-12-14 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-14 07:49, Karl Morten Ramberg a écrit : Yes I think LibO needs a way of offering intl support and responsetime guarantee to attract larger companies. And that that can be a way of partially fund the development Karl Den 14.12.2010 13:32, skrev sophie: Hi, On 14/12/2010 15:10, Karl M

[tdf-discuss] Re: TDF/LO on a wrong way?

2010-12-14 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-14 07:52, Johannes A. Bodwing a écrit : Sorry people, I think we are on a wrong way. Why? OK, there is hard work on every side, but what is the core of all? And how do we realize this core around the world with a structure for a long, long time? For example, look at HOME on the websit

[tdf-discuss] Re: TDF/LO on a wrong way?

2010-12-14 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Alexander: Le 2010-12-14 11:04, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : The German group is debating at the moment as to the appropriateness of even making their site live if the English site is still considered "under development", incomplete or dare I say it "too verbose". As far as I know, the Frenc

[tdf-discuss] Re: TDF/LO on a wrong way?

2010-12-14 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-14 08:35, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Hi Johannes, Le 14/12/10 13:52, Johannes A. Bodwing a écrit : Interesting comments and very praiseworthy intentions, but ... So many things are done different in many goups. That costs energy and time and at least motivation. But there are ma

[tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications

2010-12-14 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-14 08:51, Charles Marcus a écrit : On 2010-12-13 5:35 PM, Samuel Mehrbrodt wrote: Now, will there be an official statement from the LibreOffice leaders about a name change? Please stop this - it has been decided, there will be no name change with the sole exception possibly being th

[tdf-discuss] Re: Bring up libreoffice.org website to world *now*

2010-12-07 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-07 18:18, Friedrich Strohmaier a écrit : Hi Christian, *, just a short step in here.. Christian Lohmaier schrieb: [..] It is because just I don't know /why/ people don't add content. It still is not clear to me what they are waiting for. I'd assume they wait for publishing. I ca

[tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications

2010-12-07 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-07 13:12, Christophe Strobbe a écrit : Hi, At 18:50 7/12/2010, Rainer Bielefeld wrote: Rainer Bielefeld schrieb: > [...] but switch from Sxxx.exe to Lxxx.exe (LWRITER.EXEm ...) But if that might cause any trouble (for example Extensions referencing to current names of .exe files) I

[tdf-discuss] Re: deb installer - have to manually modify link

2010-12-06 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-06 22:23, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, :-) On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 02:54, Stefan Weigel wrote: Well, someone just changed http://www.test.libreoffice.org/download/ and made downloading again very inconvenient. The convenient script can still be found here http://s132649167.online.de/

[tdf-discuss] Re: deb installer - have to manually modify link

2010-12-06 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-06 13:54, Stefan Weigel a écrit : Hi, Am 06.12.2010 12:21, schrieb Sebastian Spaeth: On Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:52:25 +0100, Stefan Weigel wrote: Try the other download page http://www.test.libreoffice.org/download/ BTW, any chance to sqitch to to that very soon? It shouldn't hard to

[tdf-discuss] Re: deb installer - have to manually modify link

2010-12-06 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-06 10:02, Friedrich Strohmaier a écrit : Do You know anything about Websitestatus and sheduled switch? Gruß/regards No idea. There is still a lot of content to go into the site. I have helped with the "Support" section and will move on to another section. Marc -- Unsubscribe

[tdf-discuss] Re: deb installer - have to manually modify link

2010-12-06 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-06 04:48, Rainer M Krug a écrit : Hi I am using ubuntu, but on the download website, the link for Linux points to the rpm. If I want to download the deb, I have to manually change rpm to deb in the URL. Would it be possible to provide one link to the .deb and on to the rpm on the dow

[tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.

2010-12-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-02 11:27, Sigrid Carrera a écrit : Why ship an installer, when it is preferred to use the package manager from your Linux distribution? For Mandriva (on the console) do the following: - go to the directory that has all the rpm packages - su - (enter password) - urpmi *.rpm That ins

[tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.

2010-12-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-02 13:08, Sveinn í Felli a écrit : Well, that depends on what you define as an 'user'. 'Normal Linux users' (as of today = *buntu/Mint etc) use their respective package managers to set up software. Developers should be capable to pull their nightly dose directly from git, the users

[tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.

2010-12-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-02 07:05, plino a écrit : > > NoOp, I think we agree on the minimal installer size. > > I apologize for the reply mess. I'm not used to this mailing list tool. If I > reply via nabble, I can't quote. If I reply via Gmail, I can't quote but the > reference to whom the reply was doesn't wo

[tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.

2010-12-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-02 02:29, Jean-Baptiste Faure a écrit : >> Although a good idea, I would still like to see an installer do this >> rather than the language pack. > Hmm, on MS-Windows language packs are installed by an installer in the > same way as the core application. > The difference is that this ins

[tdf-discuss] Re: accessibility mailing list

2010-12-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-02 06:59, sophie a écrit : > Hi Christoph, > On 30/11/2010 02:13, Christoph Noack wrote: > [...] >> >> Concerning 3: This is the more technical part of a11y - and a very >> important one. Here, it might make sense to get (at least) a special >> interest group or a team. But I'm unable to

[tdf-discuss] Re: accessibility mailing list

2010-12-02 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-02 06:59, sophie a écrit : > Hi Christoph, > On 30/11/2010 02:13, Christoph Noack wrote: > [...] >> >> Concerning 3: This is the more technical part of a11y - and a very >> important one. Here, it might make sense to get (at least) a special >> interest group or a team. But I'm unable to

[tdf-discuss] Re: accessibility mailing list

2010-12-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-29 09:23, Christophe Strobbe a écrit : > Hi Florian, > > At 12:01 28/11/2010, Florian Effenberger wrote: >> on yesterday's LinuxDay in Austria, the request for a separate >> accessibility mailing list came up. >> >> I guess we're quite too early to do this, but on the other hand, I see >

[tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.

2010-12-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-01 18:09, Jean-Baptiste Faure a écrit : > Le 01/12/2010 23:42, Marc Paré a écrit : >> Le 2010-12-01 17:29, Jean-Baptiste Faure a écrit : >>> Hi, >>> >>> Le 30/11/2010 23:13, Dr. Bernhard Dippold a écrit : >>>> [...] >>>> Non-E

[tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.

2010-12-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-12-01 17:29, Jean-Baptiste Faure a écrit : > Hi, > > Le 30/11/2010 23:13, Dr. Bernhard Dippold a écrit : >> Hi Carl, Leif , all >> >> Carl Symons wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:10 PM, leif wrote: Den 30-11-2010 11:43, plino skrev: > The point here is that OOo has a small in

[tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.

2010-12-01 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-30 17:13, Dr. Bernhard Dippold a écrit : > At least if this combination is the only one we offer. > > Non-English speaking people need installers in their own language. > > Even if it is better to have an English installer with the ability to switch > later to > the native language, th

[tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.

2010-11-30 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-30 13:44, Robert Derman a écrit : Its difficult to really offer any meaningful suggestions until we get beyond the beta stage but once we do, we should really do a better job than OOo ever did of making LO available on disk for all those people with only dial-up or no internet connect

[tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.

2010-11-27 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-26 15:16, Robert Derman a écrit : Marc Paré wrote: Le 2010-11-25 14:44, Robert Derman a écrit : With all the discussion of the size of the download package and the difficulty of including things like manuals I suddenly realized that perhaps we are going about this thing entirely

[tdf-discuss] Re: Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-27 Thread Marc Paré
Thanks for the clarifications. Cheers Marc -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***

[tdf-discuss] Re: [tdf-dicuss] Install Instruction Suggestion

2010-11-27 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-26 13:16, David Nelson a écrit : Hi Marc, :-) On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 02:06, Marc Paré wrote: I used the Mandriva package manager. It had all of the LibreOffice rpms listed. Worked really well with all LO betas. I don't know how to do this at the command line. I'm dr

[tdf-discuss] Re: [tdf-dicuss] Install Instruction Suggestion

2010-11-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-26 11:46, David Nelson a écrit : Hi Sebastian, :-) I'm getting instructions for Fedora Core at this moment, but I was wondering if you're also able to explain how to UNINSTALL the beta 2 as well? (Me, I have beta 2 installed, and I'd like to install and test the beta 3... but how to g

[tdf-discuss] Re: [tdf-dicuss] Install Instruction Suggestion

2010-11-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-26 10:02, Sebastian G. a écrit : Since this isn't an request, but an suggestion I start a new topic. Just for the case that someone decides that an instruction could be useful. Debian/Ubuntu Installation-Instruction - Download the unofficial Debian packages (.deb) that suit your sy

[tdf-discuss] Re: Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-26 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-26 01:05, Robert Holtzman a écrit : On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:47:05PM -0500, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2010-11-25 18:54, Robert Holtzman a écrit : One of the best ways to help them out would be to (gently, if that makes you feel better) instruct them that it is customary to do a

[tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.

2010-11-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-25 21:38, Craig A. Eddy a écrit : Marc, May I suggest that, in addition to such a link being in the installation, itself, that it also be available under "Help" or some such for those who don't want it immediately, but might want it later on? It would simply be a minor additional c

[tdf-discuss] Re: Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-25 18:54, Robert Holtzman a écrit : One of the best ways to help them out would be to (gently, if that makes you feel better) instruct them that it is customary to do a modicum of research and try what's found before posting a question to a list. Also, the post should include the sta

[tdf-discuss] Re: A better idea for a download package.

2010-11-25 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-25 14:44, Robert Derman a écrit : With all the discussion of the size of the download package and the difficulty of including things like manuals I suddenly realized that perhaps we are going about this thing entirely wrong! Perhaps what we should do is offer a CHOICE of several downlo

[tdf-discuss] Re: Request: Installation Instructions

2010-11-24 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-24 16:20, Robert Holtzman a écrit : On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:30:38PM +0100, Valter Mura wrote: In data lunedì 22 novembre 2010 22:28:54, Robert Holtzman ha scritto: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 06:50:36PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:52:41PM +, Lee Hyde

[tdf-discuss] Re: changed footers of all documentfoundation and libreoffice.org mailing lists

2010-11-24 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-24 06:17, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : Sigrid Carrera wrote: 2010/11/24 Florian Effenberger: What do others think? I still clearly favor the non-poetic version ;) I have no real preference. But in my opinion, the "non-poetic" version looks to me more "professional". So I vote for this

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-24 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-24 07:38, Michele Colagrossi a écrit : Hi Mr. Derman, each humans hate passwords :) And who does not have a too easy. I recommend PasswordSafe (or similar) from SourceForge.net. This programs help you to manage your passwords. Ciao Am 24.11.2010 13:06, schrieb Charles Marcus: On

[tdf-discuss] Re: CD/DVD distribution

2010-11-24 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-24 08:58, Friedrich Strohmaier a écrit : Hi Marc, *, Marc Paré schrieb: Le 2010-11-23 19:20, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : [...] There is already a team working on a downloadable ISO for a DVD containing not only the product, but documentation and other resources too. They

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-23 15:11, plino a écrit : If this means anything, the Drupal LibreOffice website will be offering all modes of communications to the users: mailists, forums and wiki. If you can think of any other modes let us know and we will into providing it for the members. Marc, does it provi

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-23 18:05, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Le 23/11/10 23:01, Robert Derman a écrit : I just have to respond to this, I hate forums or anything else that required the use of PASSWORDS!!! I already have 10 times too many passwords to remember or keep track of and I want absolutely NO mo

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-23 17:52, Michael Wheatland a écrit : On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Robert Derman wrote: I just have to respond to this, I hate forums or anything else that required the use of PASSWORDS!!! I already have 10 times too many passwords to remember or keep track of and I want absolu

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-23 19:55, Larry Gusaas a écrit : On 2010/11/23 5:01 PM Alexander Thurgood wrote: It would be interesting to know, just from a statistical point of view, which countries in the world use Letter instead of A4 as their default page size for office documents. Apart from the US, I can't t

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-23 16:50, Ian Lynch a écrit : There are some good manuals for OOo - Gabriel Gurley's "A conceptual Guide to OpenOffice.org 3" and the OpenOffice.org Authors publications. However, I think what is needed is an on-line tutorial system that leads to certification. That is really what we

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-23 19:20, Bernhard Dippold a écrit : Hi Robert, * Robert Derman schrieb: [...] Perhaps we should make more of an effort than OOo did of making LO available on disk as an alternative to downloads. An on disk version could include more documentation as well as many, most, or perhaps al

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Robert et al: Here is the information from Jean Hollis Weber from the documentation team. Jean is one of the senior leads on the documentation team. == Marc, thanks for passing this on. Some factual info regarding the OOo user guides: 1) The ODTs of the OOo user guides ar

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-23 16:05, M. Fioretti a écrit : On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 14:42:57 PM -0500, Marc Paré (m...@marcpare.com) wrote: If this means anything, the Drupal LibreOffice website will be offering all modes of communications to the users: mailists, forums and wiki. If you can think of any other

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-23 15:11, plino a écrit : If this means anything, the Drupal LibreOffice website will be offering all modes of communications to the users: mailists, forums and wiki. If you can think of any other modes let us know and we will into providing it for the members. Marc, does it provi

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-23 15:36, Robert Derman a écrit : I have said this in the OOo discuss list, and I think it bears repeating here. One of the biggest problems causing the need for users especially new ones to need help is the lack of a good users manual. The OOo documentation site is very confusing, th

[tdf-discuss] Re: Google now integrates with MSO, what about Libre/OO?

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-23 14:44, Harold Fuchs a écrit : "Marc Paré" wrote in message news:ich2tj$ol...@dough.gmane.org... Le 2010-11-23 12:33, Nathan a écrit : On 11/23/2010 05:37 AM, Rainer Bielefeld wrote: Marc Paré schrieb: [...] IMO, the user should always be left in control of the exte

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-23 14:29, M. Fioretti a écrit : On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 08:57:45 AM -0800, plino (pedl...@gmail.com) wrote: I do agree that volunteer-friendly user support is the key for the success of any Open Source project. However, in my opinion e-mail and mailing lists are obsolete and ineffective

[tdf-discuss] Re: Google now integrates with MSO, what about Libre/OO?

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-23 12:33, Nathan a écrit : On 11/23/2010 05:37 AM, Rainer Bielefeld wrote: Marc Paré schrieb: [...] IMO, the user should always be left in control of the extensions. If they are so necessary, then they should be coded in and not be called extensions. +1 I have a non removable

[tdf-discuss] Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendly user support in LibreOffice

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-23 13:31, plino a écrit : My concern is that many users expect help to be present in the application itself, and not everyone is willing to go and find answers in a community. Could the application itself pull its "Help" functionality from online resources? In my experience an onl

[tdf-discuss] Re: Google now integrates with MSO, what about Libre/OO?

2010-11-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-22 18:07, Frank Esposito a écrit : As I see it, the problem here is that cool, useful extensions aren't being really exposed to most OOo/LibO users. if they are really cool and useful (as this one is that was just pointed out) then they should become standard features of part of a

[tdf-discuss] Re: Google now integrates with MSO, what about Libre/OO?

2010-11-22 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-22 14:02, Graham Lauder a écrit : On Tuesday 23 November 2010 06:29:01 Frank Esposito wrote: Will this ever happen with Libre Office? Google Launches Plugin That Fuses Microsoft Office With Google Docs

[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice should have own "LibreOfficeFont"

2010-11-22 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-22 06:30, Michael Wheatland a écrit : On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Claus Agerskov wrote: I would see Verdana as one of the pre-installed fonts aswell. -1 Verdana is a proprietary Microsoft font. Let's focus on open source solutions such as those previously discussed on the Docu

[tdf-discuss] Re: Version Numbers?

2010-11-22 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-22 07:05, Sean White a écrit : because the underlining code inst changing overly-much, most of the extensions should be easy to port and in th odd case where an extension is truely broken by LO's remakes then we can rewrite the plugin from scratch. As a side not we will probably need

[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice news published in argentinian newspaper La Nacion

2010-11-20 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-20 10:28, Martín Olivera a écrit : La Nacion - a very important newspaper in Argentina - published this note about LibreOffice in their technology section original in spanish http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1321337 in English via Google translate http://translate.google.e

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

2010-11-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-16 11:46, Michael Meeks a écrit : Looks interesting. However - I'm slightly worried that 'Develop' is no longer a top-level item. We -really- want to continue to encourage more and more people to get involved developing the product, and in particular diving into the code and h

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

2010-11-16 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-16 03:29, timofonic timofonic a écrit : That's interesting to know about OASIS, thanks for the explanation. What about sharing the document file format support between FOSS related programs? It's the other part of the idea that not got answered :) The ODF formats are well documente

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

2010-11-15 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-15 17:07, timofonic timofonic a écrit : I propose another idea: What about convert the file support of LibO into a portable, resource efficient, well designed and multiplatform library for all FOSS projects? I would imagine it like the WebKit of document file formats, but governed in a

[tdf-discuss] Re: AUTO: AUTO: Away from office (returning 11/19/2010)

2010-11-15 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-15 15:52, Scott Denham a écrit : I am out of the office until 11/19/2010. I am at the SC10 conference, with intermittent access to email. Note: This is an automated response to your message "Digest of discuss@documentfoundation.org issue 89 (2877-2906)" sent on 11/15/10 12:00:07.

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

2010-11-15 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-15 11:21, Michael Meeks a écrit : - nevertheless the mroe templates we have, the more people we have interested in fixing our template browse / selection UI issues I hope ;-) HTH, Michael. Hi Michael The Drupal LO website has worked on a template secti

Re: [tdf-discuss] FreeDesktop Bugzilla

2010-11-15 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-15 06:12, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Hi Marc, Le 15/11/10 11:57, Marc Paré a écrit : Ahh! Great idea! Although, this sounds more like a user-help question. We would then have to be concerned about spammers, nasties etc. uploading files to the Website for nothing. I guess we would

[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 thi

[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 b

[tdf-discuss] [Publicity] LibO communiqué appears on Li nuxer.org and comments

2010-11-14 Thread Marc Paré
There is an article on Linuxer that summarizes our communiqué of Nov. 10 and commentaries from readers (in French). You may want to read some of these. You can find the article here: http://linuxfr.org/2010/11/14/27583.html If you don't read French, you can use the Google translation services

[tdf-discuss] Re: FreeDesktop Bugzilla

2010-11-11 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-11 10:29, Charles Marcus a écrit : 'Masses of users' will not know how to properly report bugs. As I have advocated in the past (on this and the OOo list), I would suggest a two-tiered system - a simple bug reporting page for end users, where they can report bugs, document format/com

[tdf-discuss] Re: About Cacert SSL certificates (was: Feature request for 3.3 still possible?)

2010-11-09 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-09 15:15, David Nelson a écrit : Hi Marc, :-) On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 03:12, Marc Paré wrote: Maybe you should consider adding it to the FAQ. I think most people would go to the FAQ first to see if there were reasons for concerns. I don't have the permissions, Marc, the F

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

2010-11-09 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-09 13:17, Chynte a écrit : Thanks to all for your comments. The Ubuntu Brainstorm tool is a very success- and helpful tool to manage all kinds of feature requests. As far as I understand, you will use ideatorrent also in LibreOffice project? Good idea! I will wait with my feature re

[tdf-discuss] Re: About Cacert SSL certificates (was: Feature request for 3.3 still possible?)

2010-11-09 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-09 06:45, David Nelson a écrit : Hi Guy, :-) On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 18:13, Guy Voets wrote: You have asked SeaMonkey to connect securely to bugs.freedesktop.org, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure. Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trus

[tdf-discuss] Re: Feature request for 3.3 still possible?

2010-11-08 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-08 19:14, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, :-) I'm not sure if the feature freeze for 3.3 has already been declared, but is there any chance of getting this feature added for 3.3? https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31480 David Nelson Not sure if a freeze is on but I also file

[tdf-discuss] Re: feature requests?

2010-11-08 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-08 16:01, Frank Esposito a écrit : On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2010-11-08 15:31, Frank Esposito a écrit : Forgive me if this has been discussed already but... Is there a central place (on the wiki for example, --I could not find it) or ideatorrent site

[tdf-discuss] Re: feature requests?

2010-11-08 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-08 15:31, Frank Esposito a écrit : Forgive me if this has been discussed already but... Is there a central place (on the wiki for example, --I could not find it) or ideatorrent site where new ideas and feature requests are made for future versions of LO? thanks Frank We have talk

[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 us

[tdf-discuss] Re: LibO Idea Handling

2010-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
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, which it is based on) seems to be focused on problems and solutions. Ho

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

2010-11-05 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-05 17:15, M Robinson a écrit : The first two toolbars should be a Libre-polished 'classic' toolbar and a 'ribbon' clone. The eye candy should be left and right arrows on either side of the toolbar that causes the toolbar to slide in either direction. Users can organize their toolbars

[tdf-discuss] Re: Old Bugs

2010-11-04 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-11-04 23:02, T. J. Brumfield a écrit : Would it be useful if I made a list in the wiki of bugs with X number votes or more? Then someone more familiar with the go-oo features and the LibO codebase can perhaps check some off that list that are already implemented. The remaining list might

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