Re: [tdf-discuss] why LibO?

2010-10-17 Thread Fridrich Strba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On 17/10/2010 04:15, James wrote: Is LibO the official short name for LibreOffice? I hate it, it sounds like a system library. LO is better. By reading the lists of discussion, I came to the opinion that this was the abbreviation that the

Re: [tdf-discuss] why LibO?

2010-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Fridrich Strba wrote: I changed the occurences of LO in the build to LibO. Please, could you come to an agreement? I think it's kind of official, see http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/msg00430.html Regards, Andrea. -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for

Re: [tdf-discuss] Oracle to put effort to OOo

2010-10-17 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 23:50:27 PM -0500, Alexandro Colorado (j...@openoffice.org) wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:27 AM, M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 10:33:00 AM -0500, Eduardo Moreno ( emor...@tokonhu.com) wrote: When will we see the integration of

Re: [tdf-discuss] A few initial comments on Beta2

2010-10-17 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jean, Jean Weber wrote (17-10-10 02:28) On Sun, Oct 17, 2010, AGcomputing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: (iii) when opening a previously saved document, it would be nice if the cursor went automatically to the last saved point of the document rather than what seems to happen now which is to

Re: [tdf-discuss] MS Office 2010 FUD

2010-10-17 Thread Thiago Chaves
You people are wasting your time worrying or discussing about videos like this. There's not much debate whether or not the video is loaded with crap. Time discussing this video is better used developing some videos explaining usage of LibO, explaining whose fault is it that other office suites

Re: [tdf-discuss] A few initial comments on Beta2

2010-10-17 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 11:53:29, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com ha scritto: I don't see anything for where to have the document open: first page, or where last edited. I see Load user-specific settings with the document but not where to select that particular setting. It's

[tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
We're on slashdot. I mention this for info purposes only, not suggesting anyone should waste their time responding to the inevitable stupid comments. --Jean http://goo.gl/qmIk -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available

Re: [tdf-discuss] A few initial comments on Beta2

2010-10-17 Thread AG
On 16/10/10 22:42, Scott Furry wrote: On 16/10/10 01:30 PM, AG wrote: On 16/10/10 19:50, Scott Furry wrote: On 16/10/10 12:01 PM, AG wrote: (ii) there is still no Quickstarter available - nothing under Tools/ Options/ General/ Memory to even enable this. Not critical, but very nice to

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 12:07:04, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com ha scritto: We're on slashdot. I mention this for info purposes only, not suggesting anyone should waste their time responding to the inevitable stupid comments. --Jean http://goo.gl/qmIk Indeed, the content of

Re: [tdf-discuss] A few initial comments on Beta2

2010-10-17 Thread AG
On 17/10/10 11:06, Gianluca Turconi wrote: In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 11:53:29, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com ha scritto: I don't see anything for where to have the document open: first page, or where last edited. I see Load user-specific settings with the document but not where

Re: [tdf-discuss] A few initial comments on Beta2

2010-10-17 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 11:34 +0100, AG wrote: On 17/10/10 11:06, Gianluca Turconi wrote: In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 11:53:29, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com ha scritto: I don't see anything for where to have the document open: first page, or where last edited. I see Load

Re: [tdf-discuss] A few initial comments on Beta2

2010-10-17 Thread AG
On 17/10/10 12:05, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 11:52 +0100, AG wrote: On 17/10/10 11:40, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 12:06 +0200, Gianluca Turconi wrote: In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 11:53:29, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO roadmap?

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-16 22:35, Jon Hamkins a écrit : On 10/16/2010 12:33 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2010-10-16 15:29, j.martin.pedersen a écrit : I will subscribe and attempt to find time to contribute. -martin Thanks, you are exactly the academic type of person I would be interested in having

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ian wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 08:08 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: how could a corporation come in and take over a community and take control of their budget? Because there was no legal entity - that is why a Foundation was needed from the outset. Well, OpenOffice.org donations go to Team

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Italo Vignoli
Marc Paré wrote: Just out of curiosity, re: budget money: Was the budget funds collected and donated to the community? Exactly: donations. If so, how could a corporation come in and take over a community and take control of their budget? I have been resigned on Tuesday, and I have asked

[tdf-discuss] Making LibreOffice portable, Fedora LibreOffice

2010-10-17 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, Has anyone created LibreOfficePortable like the version of OpenOffice Portable: http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable There has been a request, someone else has inquired here: http://portableapps.com/node/25074 I have loaded a beta version of LibreOffice on

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO roadmap?

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-16 23:53, Andy Brown a écrit : On Sat Oct 16 2010 20:35:41 GMT-0700 (PDT) Marc Paré wrote: Thanks for the note. Yes, it does sound that different tools are needed depending on the field of study. There should almost be a mailist dedicated to LibO use for academia where we could

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2010-10-17 08:47, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : Ian wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 08:08 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: how could a corporation come in and take over a community and take control of their budget? Because there was no legal entity - that is why a Foundation was needed from the outset.

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread David Filskov
No need for further explanations. Good one :) -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be

[tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-17 Thread M. Fioretti
Hi folks, maybe this is a very stupid question or just a very naive one, but I assure you that it is in good faith. Is this decision a surprise for anybody? Me, I've been seriously asking myself since september 28, every time I saw some of the TDF founders posting around with an @openoffice.org

Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-17 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 16:42:58, M. Fioretti mfiore...@nexaima.net ha scritto: I'm not defending sun/oracle. But I'm reading surprised reactions and I really don't understand how there could have been any surprise. AM I missing something ? As far as the attitude of Oracle

Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-17 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Marco, * M. Fioretti schrieb: Hi folks, maybe this is a very stupid question or just a very naive one, but I assure you that it is in good faith. Is this decision a surprise for anybody? Me, I've been seriously asking myself since september 28, every time I saw some of the TDF founders

Re: [tdf-discuss] Two moderator questions

2010-10-17 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 10/17/2010 3:52 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Barbara, Barbara Duprey wrote on 2010-10-17 03.13: Are you saying that letting unsubscribed users post to a mailing list breaks rules? (That may be, but the issue has been discussed to exhaustion many times and still looks like Lilliput's

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibO Beta 2 Libre Office Writer/Web (Html Document) Settings Form Controls disappearing

2010-10-17 Thread Andy Brown
On Sat Oct 16 2010 21:07:19 GMT-0700 (PDT) Paul A Norman wrote: Dear Andy, You caught me just in time, due to space needs I was nearly going to take LibreOffice off and put OOO 3.21 on instead. Can you send me a copy of the original file to have a look at? Save it as an .odt. Thats part

Re: [tdf-discuss] A few initial comments on Beta2

2010-10-17 Thread AG
On 17/10/10 12:54, Gianluca Turconi wrote: In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 12:57:23, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com ha scritto: AG, I've just confirmed: Gianluca's method causes the cursor to do what you want, in OOo but not in LibO. Believe me, it does so in LibO too. At least in

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Gianluca, * Gianluca Turconi schrieb: In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 14:51:39, Italo Vignoli [...] I would expect that *Team OpenOffice.org e.V.*, the recipient of donations, would have decided about who can or cannot manage its money before the approvers in charge are removed. Perhaps

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread AG
On 17/10/10 13:37, Ian wrote: On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 08:08 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: Just out of curiosity, re: budget money: Was the budget funds collected and donated to the community? If so, how could a corporation come in and take over a community and take control of their budget?

Re: [tdf-discuss] why LibO?

2010-10-17 Thread James
On 10/17/10 08:43, Italo Vignoli wrote: On the other hand, LO is just one letter short of LOL and LOO, and I would avoid feeding the borgs with such an option. Very good point. LibO is better than OOo and LibreOffice is a better name than OpenOffice. :-) -- E-mail to

[tdf-discuss] UI - Making it an official project/goal?

2010-10-17 Thread Mike Houben
Hey there, If i'm right TDF and LO are founded to go forward to the future and improve the application. In fact to do this and make a clean cut to our old history with OOo I'm willing to supervise the new identity of LO. I will not deny our sources to OOo but for the people out there and

Re: [tdf-discuss] why LibO?

2010-10-17 Thread AG
On 17/10/10 17:08, James wrote: On 10/17/10 08:43, Italo Vignoli wrote: On the other hand, LO is just one letter short of LOL and LOO, and I would avoid feeding the borgs with such an option. Very good point. LibO is better than OOo and LibreOffice is a better name than OpenOffice.

[tdf-discuss] A copy of MSOffice

2010-10-17 Thread David Filskov
Hi Mike Just saw your OOo/Libre mail about your love for ui design. U believe we have a common interest :) Have you ever thought OO was primarily a copy of the old ms office? - many of my issue reports have been rejected as excel works this way or I don't think it's relevant to keep your

Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-17 Thread AG
On 17/10/10 16:20, Bernhard Dippold wrote: snip Oracle is trademark holder and contributor of the main part of the code for OpenOffice.org. But if they behave as owner of the community public reaction will be even more non-ambiguous than now. So what are the legal implications of all of this

Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-17 Thread AG
On 15/10/10 10:01, Mirek M. wrote: Hi Sveinn 2010/10/15 Sveinn í Fellisvei...@nett.is Þann fös 15.okt 2010 08:29, skrifaði Jean Hollis Weber: On Fri, 2010-10-15, David Nelson wrote: IMHO, LibO needs something that is quite new and a bold departure... Please

Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-17 Thread AG
On 17/10/10 17:37, AG wrote: On 16/10/10 08:05, Mirek M. wrote: Hi David, Here's an experimental mock-up of how panes might be managed: http://clickortap.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/citrus-possible-solution-to-pane/ 2010/10/15 David Nelsoncomme...@traduction.biz Hi, :-) One thing missing

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 18:05:37, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at ha scritto: Really, I'm not able to understand how these actions ca be legally supported. It's all about the definition of the OpenOffice.org community. If this community has *not* established a

Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-17 Thread Gianluca Turconi
In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 18:32:33, AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com ha scritto: So what are the legal implications of all of this then? If Oracle now own the code base, are we likely to see Oracle enact a version of SCO's attempt to claim ownership of the GNU/Linux code base

Re: [tdf-discuss] Two moderator questions

2010-10-17 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 10/17/2010 10:28 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Barbara Duprey wrote on 2010-10-17 17.25: I understand, and you have my sympathy :-) -- but don't a lot of those requests come from people who *subscribed* but still don't understand how lists work, what they do, what they are for? I see

Re: [tdf-discuss] Problems installing LibO beta2 on Debian

2010-10-17 Thread Scott Furry
On 17/10/10 04:26 AM, AG wrote: On 16/10/10 22:33, Scott Furry wrote: In TDF archive is the message thread of observations about the deb repository and setting it up. See the thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@documentfoundation.org/msg00497.html [TDF discuss] LO deb repo for more

Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-17 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Italo Vignoli italo.vign...@gmail.com wrote: ...snip... It would be nice if our emails - mine was sent on Tuesday in response to my resignment decided by an Oracle employee - are answered in due time. I think you mentioned the 'resignment' several times,

Re: [tdf-discuss] UI proposal

2010-10-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-15 7:33 PM, Christoph Noack wrote: Charles mentioned that choice is best ... that is true if people really know what they want and how to adapt something in their given situation. Many software products miss that the majority of their users doesn't fall into that category :-) So to

Re: [tdf-discuss] unsubscribed posters

2010-10-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-16 5:00 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: No, because so often they get overwhelmed by the list volume. Mailman has the concept of 'umbrella' lists... Maybe we could create 'micro' lists - say, one for Writer, one for Calc, one for Impress, etc - then make the 'discuss' and 'users' lists

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Fridrich Strba
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 22:35 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I've been intending to check how many CC members are Oracle employees and how many are not. Do they really have the votes to force these changes? They have all the votes, basically many developers in Hamburg are either leads or

Re: [tdf-discuss] Two moderator questions

2010-10-17 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-17 4:52 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote on 2010-10-17 03.13: Are you saying that letting unsubscribed users post to a mailing list breaks rules? it breaks rules. Believe me, during my last 6 years in the OpenOffice.org project, I received so many requests by

Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-17 Thread Italo Vignoli
Simos Xenitellis wrote: I think you mentioned the 'resignment' several times, however it is good to explain what actually happened. In English you would not use 'resignment'. 1. Did an Oracle employee 'sack' you? Did they tell you that you are now not part of the council anymore? 2. Was

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Per Eriksson
Dear members of the community, If we think that we indeed have a better community model and software development model, our best way of showing that is by demonstrating how it is supposed to work. The ongoing discussions about old, bad working models will only take our energy when getting

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Ian
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 21:58 +0200, Per Eriksson wrote: Dear members of the community, If we think that we indeed have a better community model and software development model, our best way of showing that is by demonstrating how it is supposed to work. The ongoing discussions about old, bad

Re: [tdf-discuss] A copy of MSOffice

2010-10-17 Thread Carlos Jose Lenarts Ramis
Sorry OOo/LibO is not a copy of MSOffice, this is a rough resume of the OOo/LibO story: 1985: StarWriter for Amstrad CPC y Zilog Z80. 1991: StarWriter 5.5 for DOS and is also released StarDraw 1.0 and StarBase 1.0. 1995: StarOffice 3.0 for Windows, OS/2, Mac 1996: StarOffice 3.1 for

Re: [tdf-discuss] Please embed dictionaries in Danish lang-pack and install

2010-10-17 Thread Andras Timar
2010/10/17 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@openoffice.org: On 15/10/2010 Andras Timar wrote: 2010/10/15 Andrea Pescetti: Strange. Language packs in OpenOffice.org (including those for Linux-based systems) do include dictionary, thesaurus and hyphenation patterns ... Is LibreOffice's packaging

Re: [tdf-discuss] why LibO?

2010-10-17 Thread Caio Tiago Oliveira
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:23 PM, AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: On 17/10/10 17:08, James wrote:  On 10/17/10 08:43, Italo Vignoli wrote: On the other hand, LO is just one letter short of LOL and LOO, and I would avoid feeding the borgs with such an option. Very good point.

Re: [tdf-discuss] why LibO?

2010-10-17 Thread fyva
lo is shorter than libo, it can save bits and will not be confused with libraries. -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be

Re: [tdf-discuss] A copy of MSOffice

2010-10-17 Thread David Filskov
Sure - that's cool. I was merely thinking the Sun developers might have seen their goal as beiong to mimic MS office rather than create something better. Sadly that was partly my impression. But I'm glad Libre might be different in that aspect :) On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 22:09, Carlos Jose

Re: [tdf-discuss] Please embed dictionaries in Danish lang-pack and install

2010-10-17 Thread Andras Timar
2010/10/17 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@openoffice.org: Andras Timar wrote: 2010/10/17 Andrea Pescetti: Being the maintainer of the Italian dictionary package, I'm sad to see LibreOffice trashing my work (and doing the same with other community-contributed dictionary packages, like Danish as

[tdf-discuss] Don't make the mistake of the pigs

2010-10-17 Thread Paul A Norman
Dear LibreOffice Community, My few brief experiences with all this (esp on the help+user list) have convinced me that if there are any wise or mature individuals able to take the helm of your project - then read Animal Farm by George Orwell, and make sure you don't make the mistake of the pigs.

Re: [tdf-discuss] A Map of Bibliographic systems? was: LibO roadmap?

2010-10-17 Thread Paul A Norman
Please don;t forget interaction with *TeX family of projects in this. Paul On 17 October 2010 10:07, j.martin.pedersen m.peder...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: On 16/10/10 20:48, Simos Xenitellis wrote: On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:18 PM, j.martin.pedersen m.peder...@lancaster.ac.uk wrote: Hi,

[tdf-discuss] LibO Beta 2 miss-reporting version?

2010-10-17 Thread Paul A Norman
I was asked recently on help+users if I even had Beta 2 I had already done a complete uninatall of my first version of LibreOffice I had downloaded LibO_3.3.0_beta2_Win_x86_install_multi.exe It unpacked as LibreOffice 3.3 (4cb0e024) Installation Files Oncve installed help about reports it as:

[tdf-discuss] Re: LibO Beta 2 miss-reporting version?

2010-10-17 Thread Paul A Norman
What about building a reporting tool into LibO that would send relevent info and comments from the user? Paul On 18 October 2010 14:46, Paul A Norman paul.a.nor...@gmail.com wrote: I was asked recently on help+users if I even had Beta 2 I had already done a complete uninatall of my first

Re: LibO Install/Update ( was [tdf-discuss] Automatic Updates)

2010-10-17 Thread Paul A Norman
Re early discussion on Wondpws install and unpacked install files... Would they need to be present for the Windows Control Panel/ Add remove Programs/ Support Info - - Repair button to work? Paul -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List

Re: Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-17 Thread Ramon Sole
Hi *, I feel same people can't be ruling OOo and TDF. And I see a clear Conflict of Interest for people who has responsibilities in OOo and chose to have responsabilities in the TDF. Both communities will be able to collaborate in tons of things, but the project leaders can't share

Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-17 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 04:48:23 AM +0200, Ramon Sole (ramon.s...@opscons.com) wrote: Both communities will be able to collaborate in tons of things, but the project leaders can't share responsabilities in both projects. If so, why to have two Communities? You can't fork a open source project

Re: [tdf-discuss] Basic question about Oracle asking OOo community members to leave

2010-10-17 Thread Drew Jensen
... and above all their general opinion about what Ramon said and on how to handle the OOo/Oracle - LibO/TDF relation in the future. Hello Mr. Fioretti, It is my firm and deep belief that, given my experiences and interactions, as limited as they may be in some cases, with all of those

Re: [tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Cor Nouws
Andrea Pescetti wrote (17-10-10 14:47) Well, OpenOffice.org donations go to Team OpenOffice.org e.V. (not to be confused with OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V.) http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html and the treasurer of Team OpenOffice.org e.V. happens to be from Oracle: