Re: [tdf-discuss] Contributors' names in LibO 3.3: how to ask for a correction?

2011-01-27 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:53:35 +, Michael Meeks wrote: In fact these are extracted from the git logs... You need to make sure you commit new code with a correct full name and email address. Right; but of course, perhaps we can fix this for the past by adding some exceptions: any

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

2010-12-13 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:35:36 +0100, Samuel Mehrbrodt s.mehrbr...@googlemail.com wrote: Now, will there be an official statement from the LibreOffice leaders about a name change? Should there be? As far as I know did no developer suggest or actively discuss any name change. If it should be

Re: [tdf-discuss] Revamping of OO APIs

2010-12-08 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:52:16 +0530, Marc-André Laverdière wrote: Hello everyone, I found out in LWN (http://lwn.net/Articles/414051/) that the LO team was working on The crufty old virtual object system - deprecated for ten years - is being removed. From what I understand, that means

Re: [tdf-discuss] Three things to not forget to make LibreOffice (and ODF) succeed

2010-12-07 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:44:22 -0800, Bradley D. Thornton wrote: On 11/29/2010 07:11 AM, Phil Hibbs wrote: Google Docs (and possibly other ODF implementations such as KOffice) compatability is also an issue. Are there ongoing efforts to get Google Docs to be more compatible with

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

2010-12-06 Thread 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 replicate the static content that we have there right now and it would modifying/improving the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Changing toolbar Icons

2010-12-01 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 10:30:45 -0600, Frank Esposito wrote: Does anyone know if the toolbar Icons will be changed in future releases? If you submit icons for that, yes. This is a meritocracy now :). Sebastian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive:

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

2010-11-29 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:26:07 +0100, Peter Lairo peterla...@gmail.com wrote: No application should be so arrogant as to start-up with the OS per default. Then you will be delighted to hear that it has been effectively turned off in Linux by default, if I overheard it correctly. It seems OO

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

2010-11-24 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:02:11 +0100, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Does such a system also prevent false representation, i.e. someone passing themselves off as another member ? With a userid and password combo, this is much harder to do, it seems (notwithstanding one's computer being hacked and

Re: [tdf-discuss] Version Numbers?

2010-11-23 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:24:00 +1100, Sean White runicpala...@gmail.com wrote: One of the things i LOVE about open source software is the ability for me to ask someone else to code something or port something that i cant do myself. So my solution to your problem of incompatible extensions is to

Re: [tdf-discuss] functionality issues discussions

2010-11-23 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:16:53 +0200, Marwan Gedeon mar...@zaradoustra.com wrote: I'm sorry if asking this here is inappropriate, I couldn't find the answer in FAQ, neither another mailing list dedicated for that purpose: what is the proper place/people to resort to, in order to report/resolve

Re: [tdf-discuss] New Icon theme set

2010-11-18 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:42:25 +0100, Florian Reisinger reisi...@live.at wrote: I am very sorry, if I disturb you, but is there a download link for the new Theme and may I help to make it a little bit better? ( if possible) No need to be sorry: The artwork is here (browsable):

Re: [tdf-discuss] FreeDesktop Bugzilla

2010-11-15 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:43:49 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: 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

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

2010-11-09 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 18:12:19 +0100, Christian Lohmaier wrote: Now that a non-SC member replied, I can't hold back either: I wouldn't be that sceptical :) Well - nothing against giving appropriate credit - but the question is what does he think is appropriate? We can always propose and ask. :).

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

2010-11-08 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Tue, 9 Nov 2010 08:14:32 +0800, David Nelson wrote: 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? I am pretty sure that there won't be any changes like that going into the 3.3 branch anymore, as even the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: priorising feature-requests was: LO mobile phone version

2010-11-05 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:10:42 +, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: So what happens next? Should the suggestion for LO mobile version remain in the mailing list archive until the proposals structure is created? Is any member of the decision-making entity able to say now whether this proposal

Re: [steering-discuss] Community bylaws incoming!

2010-11-05 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:55:35 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Here's the result of our discussions with respect to the Community bylaws so far. Can we add some blurb in the long run on what the benefits/rights of members are? :-). Such as voting for a board of directors etc. Sebastian --

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Old Bugs

2010-11-04 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:14:50 -0400, Steven Shelton wrote: However, LibO crashes constantly on my Windows XP box. I tried to use it for a bit to test it, and the crashes were so frequent it was entirely unusable. Frames with captions by any chance? In that case you will like beta3. Sebastian

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Old Bugs

2010-11-04 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:01:47 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: +10 - Find/Replace was a frustrating exercise for me until I found this extension many months ago. It absolutely should *replace* the current implementation. 1) Could someone please identify the source? It seems LGPG license but when

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Old Bugs

2010-11-04 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:32:54 +0100, Peter Rodwell pe...@intorg.org wrote: Then the Web site needs updating. It still says: Be advised that the current beta might replace your OpenOffice.org installation. Not anymore, thanks for the heads up. Sebastian -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Java dependency

2010-11-03 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 01:08:46 +0100, Christian Lohmaier lohmaier+ooofut...@googlemail.com wrote: And I fully agree - just dropping java just for the sake of it is a very, very bad idea. Right, but being able to build with --disable-java (which doesn't work at the moment) should be a worthwhile

[tdf-discuss] Pretty up your name in the wiki stats

2010-11-03 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
http://libreoffice.org/credits.html contains contributions to the TDF wiki. However it is only able to retrieve the wiki usernames. If you want to see you own full name there, you can enter it on this page: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Developers All that is being used now is

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Non-removable extensions

2010-11-02 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:34:11 +, Michael Meeks wrote: The more interesting thing to me is - why would you want to remove the PDF Import ? or the Presenter Console ? Because I don't like that additional complexity in the UI? (Just an example) There are valid reasons why I would want to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Non-removable extensions

2010-11-01 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:44:31 -0700, Andy Brown wrote: Who had the bright idea to require the non-removable extensions in LibreOffice? This, IMO, is totally uncalled for. This is a great way to lose users. While I agree that there should be no non-removable extensions by default, the tone

Re: [tdf-discuss] Better defaults

2010-10-27 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:52:20 +0200, leif leiflod...@gmail.com wrote: Many large installations are very irritated about the registration screen. The DisableFirstStartWisard solves some of the problem *but* its version dependant. IMHO we should remove the *registration* completely. We are not

Re: [tdf-discuss] Better defaults

2010-10-27 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:10:24 -0400, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: In my view, the registrations process for LibO is quite an important tool. Too late, I asked and it is already gone :). I realize the power of statistics, but it is annoying and very uncommon at least for Linux applications

Re: [tdf-discuss] Better defaults

2010-10-25 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:23:13 +0200, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: There are discussions on this list about UI redesign. Even if this is a good goal on the mid/long term, there are lots of things that can be done *immediately* to build a better user experience: change default toolbars and

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO roadmap?

2010-10-25 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:26:03 -0400, Drew Jensen wrote: On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 10:16 +0200, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote: but we need some special care for the research world that has been completely left out by OOo these past years. Interesting, so would that mean more emphasis on Calc (charting)

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-21 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:17:47 -0400, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: If there is so much time wasted dealing with non-subscribers, then we need to re-evaluate our lists and take a close look at what we are doing wrong. Our LibO suite is so popular that so many new users call on us for

Re: [tdf-discuss] Supporting customers (ordinary users)

2010-10-21 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:40:31 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I am appalled at the level of hostility and contempt being expressed by a few people regarding the support of ordinary users -- our customers. While I agree that organizing good user support is important, I feel that most of the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Unsubscribe

2010-10-20 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 22:04:05 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: you need to write to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org On that matter, can't we filter out mails with subject unsubscribe and redirect them to discuss+unsubscribe dynamically? Even I failed to unsubscribe from this list

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-20 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:39:29 +0200, Gianluca Turconi m...@letturefantastiche.com wrote: I see: The Document Foundation (members: Charles-H. Schulz, Google, whoever-you-want) with its steering committee/council; While it seem you and others see: The Document Foundation + Google +

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:37:02 +0200, Gianluca Turconi m...@letturefantastiche.com wrote: I've read that post, but I think you're reiterating an old misconception by confusing the Document Foundation with the wider LibreOffice Community. Fully agree. Compare the OpenStreetMap Foundation. They

Re: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-18 Thread Sebastian Spaeth
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:25:52 -0400, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: Best would be to find some way to integrate a decent forum platform with a decent mail list manager... The nabble forums are rather easy to integrate in a website and provide seamless integration with a