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

2010-11-23 Thread T. J. Brumfield
There are open software stacks with various CMS tools where you can combine wiki, blog, forum, and FAQ functionality together. A community site could have articles on the front end to help demonstate features, provide tutorials, expose new templates and extensions, etc. Users can provide comments

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

2010-11-22 Thread T. J. Brumfield
There are already OOo plugins that integrate OOo with Google Docs. They've been around for years. -- T. J. On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Frank Esposito frankespos...@gmail.comwrote: Will this ever happen with Libre Office? Google Launches Plugin That Fuses Microsoft Office With Google

Re: [tdf-discuss] x86_64 Windows build

2010-11-04 Thread T. J. Brumfield
, T. J. Brumfield enderand...@gmail.com wrote: There is an open OOo bug that is over 5 years old. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=46594 It seems that OOo developers felt this was an unnecessary feature. However, as users have commented in that bug report, the 32-bit

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

2010-11-04 Thread T. J. Brumfield
In all fairness, Android tablets could become a large emerging market, but Windows is still by far the predominant market. On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Peter Rodwell pe...@intorg.org wrote: Quoting e-letter: In terms of priorities, making LO the default for mobile (e.g. android) is more

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

2010-11-04 Thread T. J. Brumfield
platforms: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Next should be platforms of the future. On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Peter Rodwell pe...@intorg.org wrote: Quoting T. J. Brumfield: In all fairness, Android tablets could become a large emerging market, but Windows is still by far the predominant market

Re: [tdf-discuss] java / phone strategy ..

2010-11-03 Thread T. J. Brumfield
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Benjamin Horst bho...@mac.com wrote: I expect the iPad and upcoming Android tablets to become the dominant computing platform in developing countries--they are cheaper and make a simple upgrade path from the mobile phones that are the primary means of internet

[tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread T. J. Brumfield
for LibreOffice to pursue some of these lingering issues with tons of votes? Should they try to create the features that the community obviously wants that OOo is not providing? -- T. J. Brumfield I'm questioning my education Rewind and what does it show? Could be, the truth it becomes you I'm a seed

[tdf-discuss] Java dependency

2010-11-02 Thread T. J. Brumfield
and reimplement them without the need to fire up a JVM? Is there a technical advantage of running the wizards and such in Java that I'm not aware of? Thanks! -- T. J. Brumfield I'm questioning my education Rewind and what does it show? Could be, the truth it becomes you I'm a seed, wondering why it grows

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

2010-11-02 Thread T. J. Brumfield
be considerably less work than completely redesigning the UI from scratch. That is more time that could be dedicated to improving the project in other ways. -- T. J. Brumfield I'm questioning my education Rewind and what does it show? Could be, the truth it becomes you I'm a seed, wondering why

[tdf-discuss] Accessibility (was Java dependency)

2010-11-02 Thread T. J. Brumfield
I'm moving this into another thread. Jonathon suggested that LibO fails at accesibility requirements. Doing a few quick Google searches, it seems that OOo and thusly LibO uses the Java Accessibility API to enable the use of screen readers and braille devices. This is primarily used for Windows.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread T. J. Brumfield
The discussion of why companies should or can't migrate away from MS Office or proprietary document formats is a bit off-topic. I'm also assuming most of us have had this discussion at length before as well. I'm assuming if you're on this list that you are in favor of open software and open

Re: [tdf-discuss] Old Bugs

2010-11-02 Thread T. J. Brumfield
True. However, the good news is that the 2007 and 2010 formats are largely similar and are XML based. The old formats were binary and kept changing. Since the format isn't changing as much, and the new format is easier to reverse-engineer, now is a good opportunity for OOo/LibO to catch up and

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Java dependency

2010-11-02 Thread T. J. Brumfield
I think there is a difference between removing Java as a dependency needed for out-of-the-box features, and blocking people from extending the application with Java extensions. I think keeping the Java UNO bridge does make sense, but users shouldn't need to fire up a JVM for basic/common