[steering-discuss] Update on the Foundation
Dear friends, The Steering Committee would like to provide you an update regarding the status of the establishment of our Foundation. We have spent quite some time evaluating the legal, fiscal, financial and practical options that were available to us. Assessing these took us considerable efforts and the involvement of lawyers we would like to thank. We finally came to the following decision. We will incorporate a Foundation in Germany (called Stiftung in German) in early 2011. A german foundation will provide us with many advantages of various kinds, among them, 100% tax-deductible donations. In order to incorporate there we will however need some initial capital and resources (around fifty thousand (50,000) Euros). If we do not manage to collect this sum in a reasonable amount of time, we will switch to our second best option and incorporate a charity in the United Kingdom, which is much cheaper. We will of course keep you updated. Meanwhile, the donations to the German OOoDEV association are still accepted and much welcome ! The last days of 2010 will be busy with Season's Holidays as well as the release of LibreOffice 3.3 and the LibreOffice website. Until 2011, we wish you all the best for the New Year. On behalf of The Document Foundation Steering Committee, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-Founder Steering Committee Member, The Document Foundation. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status
Hi Klaus, Bernhard, Florian, all, :-) On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: So Florian can't bring up the website *now* - that's a great pity (especially with regards to the immense work David put into the site during the last week), but we can't do anything against it. Florian's day is not longer than 24h - and his life doesn't consist of LibreOffice alone. Yes, I understand this. I hope very much he *will* manage it but, if really he can't, I will dissipate my great disappointment and think laterally. PS: I understand Klaus-Jürgen's comment as possibility to use the time until the launch - not as an attempt to delay it. Yes, well if ever Florian can't launch the site then we should think positively and use the intervening time usefully. Xmas list. PPS: I still believe, that the visible part of the main page should not contain more than a few lines of text, a download button (can lead to the download page) and links to the most interesting areas. Twitter and blog in the scrolling area are ok, but I think a news area is more important than those tow. I will put at least a download button above the home page text, but did not get around to it yet. You will notice that I *have* been listening to people's comments, and complying with most of them. The problem is that the current theme is very narrow, and limits what you can place on the page quite a lot. That applies to the top menu bar, the side menu and the actual content area. IMHO, I would scrap the current theme and make a new one. I've never done a SilverStripe theme before, but once you've hacked themes for a couple of CMS's, you can hack them for another. I bet it would only take me a few days. If one of you SilverSite CSS/theming gurus helped out, I bet we could do it even quicker... I would propose a theme based on the theme at libreofficeaustralia.org. Take a look at screenshots [1] and [2]. The design perfectly fits the current marketing color scheme and graphic charter. It's simple but very Web 2.0. It's based on the Fusion theme for Drupal. It gives a lot more space and scope for nicely laying out the content, with lots of nice big screenshots, etc. Florian, Christian, if you gave me access to SSH/FTP into http://pumbaa.ooodev.org:7780/ then I could set a new theme up there and work on it. Then Christian could install it on the test.libreoffice.org/libreoffice.org site when it was ready. What do you think, guys? a) We'd get a lot more flexibility with the content. b) If ever there is a changeover to a Drupal site, there will be no visual break... the roll-over could be almost invisible. PPPS: The graphic on the main page links to http:///download/ (not a relative link...) I know. I had to hack the HTML/CSS to make the shuffler look OK. I'm waiting for Christian to deal with the fix I already requested. So it's a temporary thing. [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/6/65/Liboaustralia-screenshot1.png [2] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/1/14/Liboaustralia-screenshot2.png David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
[steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status
Hi Bernhard, :-) On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: PPS: I still believe, that the visible part of the main page should not contain more than a few lines of text, a download button (can lead to the download page) and links to the most interesting areas. Please give me a suggestion for the few lines of text then. Twitter and blog in the scrolling area are ok, but I think a news area is more important than those tow. Christian, is there a dedicated news/blogging module for SilverStripe? David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status
Hi David, *, On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:05 AM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: Twitter and blog in the scrolling area are ok, but I think a news area is more important than those tow. Christian, is there a dedicated news/blogging module for SilverStripe? Well - there is a blog module, yes (meant for providing blogs yourself), and regarding news: You can of course add a news section as well. Similar to how the FAQ-items are automatically collected, one can collect news items. And you can create a area on the page that shows the X latest news entries. The basics on how to do it are laid out in the basic tutorials of silverstripe http://doc.silverstripe.org/tutorial:2-extending-a-basic-site If it is just about providing an RSS feed: You can turn pretty much everything into a RSS feed with silverstripe... The real questions is: Do we want to add news via the CMS or not. ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status
SilverStripe? Is that something that will look a bit like the ribbon-bar in the 2007-2010 MicroSquish Office? Regards from Tom :) From: Christian Lohmaier lohmaier+ooofut...@googlemail.com To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org Cc: webs...@libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, 21 December, 2010 2:41:40 Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status Hi David, *, On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:05 AM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: Twitter and blog in the scrolling area are ok, but I think a news area is more important than those tow. Christian, is there a dedicated news/blogging module for SilverStripe? Well - there is a blog module, yes (meant for providing blogs yourself), and regarding news: You can of course add a news section as well. Similar to how the FAQ-items are automatically collected, one can collect news items. And you can create a area on the page that shows the X latest news entries. The basics on how to do it are laid out in the basic tutorials of silverstripe http://doc.silverstripe.org/tutorial:2-extending-a-basic-site If it is just about providing an RSS feed: You can turn pretty much everything into a RSS feed with silverstripe... The real questions is: Do we want to add news via the CMS or not. ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status
Hi David, *, On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:35 AM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 05:38, Bernhard Dippold bernh...@familie-dippold.at wrote: [...] IMHO, I would scrap the current theme and make a new one. I've never done a SilverStripe theme before, but once you've hacked themes for a couple of CMS's, you can hack them for another. You don't hack a theme for silverstripe, you create a css for nicely created HTML :-)) The cms specific parts should be reduced to a minimum, as I think the html it creates is semantic enough, and not layout-dependent :-) I bet it would only take me a few days. If one of you SilverSite CSS/theming gurus helped out, I bet we could do it even quicker... Well, I wouldn't tackle this. Feedback from the marketing/design/branding front is rather sparse, as very few people have time these days, so I fear that it ends up like Nice, you got a theme, but unfortunately it doesn't match our vision for future branding or similar I personally don't like the libreofficeaustralia theme as it is now. Header much too high, language selection doesn't work (something opens, but that something is covered almost entirely by grey background, no selection possioble, etc. Visit it with german locale and you're locked out basically, as it then also doesn't even offer navigation, etc. So from first looks: Nah, needs work. Florian, Christian, if you gave me access to SSH/FTP into http://pumbaa.ooodev.org:7780/ then I could set a new theme up there No need to have access, the theme is in git: https://github.com/tdf/cms-themes you can download a zip or tar.gz there using the download button and you can create an export of the site using http://pumbaa.ooodev.org:7780/StaticExporter/export?baseurl=relative This will get you a html.tar.gz - copy the cms-themes folder of the git download into the html folder as html/themes Then hack around. Don't bother about the silvertsripe templates, just add the html you wish there would be, I can then adapt the templates. The templates are included in the cms-themes as well, so feel free to have a look, it needs some refactoring anyway, (move common parts to includes, do less duplication), but they are pretty straightforward in either case. http://doc.silverstripe.org/templates What do you think, guys? See above. A redesign will very likely have to wait until people are able to provide input. The discussion on how the navigation should look for example didn't receive much feedback yet, so whatever you would do, it would be on a very fragile basis. a) We'd get a lot more flexibility with the content. b) If ever there is a changeover to a Drupal site, there will be no visual break... the roll-over could be almost invisible. This is a non-argument. Drupal can adapt to whatever we create on silverstripe, etc. PPPS: The graphic on the main page links to http:///download/ (not a relative link...) I know. I had to hack the HTML/CSS to make the shuffler look OK. Huh? What does the link have to do with it? You already fixed the images, the link is completely independent of the images/photo-shuffler. But I'll fix it nevertheless... ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I thought Joomla was far easier to use than Drupal and has a much larger faster community? SilverLight website looks very dated or is it just starting-up? Please don't start trolling. 1st of all it is SilverStripe, not SilverLight, 2nd if oyu know Joomla, Drupal, etc. Then you should know that the look is independent of the CMS. What it looks like depends on how you define the css. You can make the site look like whatever you want. So please: Don't argument pro/against a cms by the looks of the css. And yes, it is starting up, and no, the design is not new, it is closely based on the documentfoundation.org theme. We're aware that it is not the nicest theme around there, but if you want to be constructive, join the webs...@libreoffice.org mailinglist and/or the design/marketing lists. There have been various requests for comments, but people are too busy to spend a considerable amount of time into it right now. There have been a few proposals, but none of the drupal folks did comment on them either, and the drupal team did not pick those up either. So I don't consider the druapl site's theme any better in this regard. Closed-shop work unfortunately. Instead of working on defining the look of the site *right now* they prefer working behind closed doors on the drupal site without providing feedback on the public mailinglists. I don't like this at all. It is good to see progress, but when this progress is on a completely seperate track than the community discussion about the topic, then it doesn't help at all. Great. now this post turned into a rant again, but well, be it… ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [steering-discuss] Re: [libreoffice-website] Website status
Hi Christian, :-) Thanks for your reply. OK, I've noted about working with the git repo. Let's see if there's any kind of go-ahead from Florian and Christoph. If we wait for answers from everyone, we'll never get anywhere and the subject will just drown in circular, endless discussions. My aim would be to do something concrete real soon. Let's see what's said... I personally don't like the libreofficeaustralia theme as it is now. Header much too high, language selection doesn't work (something opens, but that something is covered almost entirely by grey background, no selection possioble, etc. Visit it with german locale and you're locked out basically, as it then also doesn't even offer navigation, etc. So from first looks: Nah, needs work. I'm only talking about achieving the same presentation as on that site, so we're not really worried about what doesn't work on that site. But it's a clean presentation that will allow us to make the SilverStripe site and content look good quickly, and it basically fits the graphic charter... [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/6/65/Liboaustralia-screenshot1.png [2] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/cgi_img_auth.php/1/14/Liboaustralia-screenshot2.png P.S. My advice would be not to get into arguments with stupid people deliberately spamming the thread with irrelevant off-topic comments. They do it deliberately to break up the intelligent discussion... David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] first stable version
Hi Kevin, 2010/12/20 kevin zh kevin.zh1...@gmail.com: HI Every, the RC1 was released, can you tell me when will the first stable version come out, If I remember correctly, then RC2 was recently tagged in git, this means, that you can download this version within the next few days. The final release is planned for January. Hope this answers your question. ;) Sigrid -- 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] some really bad news
http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/12/cptn-holdings-llc-acquirer-of-882.html so whoever get the idea first that OpenOffice should be free (libre) and not only open she must be praised and thanked. Laszlo -- 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 ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications
On 20/12/2010 7:03 PM, Samuel Mehrbrodt s.mehrbr...@googlemail.com wrote: I think it's good to change the names of the Applications so that they describe what each application does. LibreOffice is the brand which will be known and names of the applications should help to find the application you want to use. I would also suggest to translate the names of the applications like Google Docs does. So we could have: Text Table Presentation Drawing Formula I like the idea but you have used a mix of nouns and adjectives. I also think that calc does far more than 'tables', spreadsheet would be more descriptive if you wanted to use nouns. -- 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 ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications
Spreadsheet is ok for me as long as it gets translated. Because here in Germany almost nobody would know what Spreadsheet means. Where did I use adjectives? I think Drawing is also a noun, but maybe you have a better idea. 2010/12/20 Michael Wheatland mich...@wheatland.com.au: On 20/12/2010 7:03 PM, Samuel Mehrbrodt s.mehrbr...@googlemail.com wrote: I think it's good to change the names of the Applications so that they describe what each application does. LibreOffice is the brand which will be known and names of the applications should help to find the application you want to use. I would also suggest to translate the names of the applications like Google Docs does. So we could have: Text Table Presentation Drawing Formula I like the idea but you have used a mix of nouns and adjectives. I also think that calc does far more than 'tables', spreadsheet would be more descriptive if you wanted to use nouns. -- 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 *** -- 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 ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications
+1 for Spreadsheed / Presentation / Drawing / Formula. On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Samuel Mehrbrodt s.mehrbr...@googlemail.com wrote: Spreadsheet is ok for me as long as it gets translated. Because here in Germany almost nobody would know what Spreadsheet means. Where did I use adjectives? I think Drawing is also a noun, but maybe you have a better idea. 2010/12/20 Michael Wheatland mich...@wheatland.com.au: On 20/12/2010 7:03 PM, Samuel Mehrbrodt s.mehrbr...@googlemail.com wrote: I think it's good to change the names of the Applications so that they describe what each application does. LibreOffice is the brand which will be known and names of the applications should help to find the application you want to use. I would also suggest to translate the names of the applications like Google Docs does. So we could have: Text Table Presentation Drawing Formula I like the idea but you have used a mix of nouns and adjectives. I also think that calc does far more than 'tables', spreadsheet would be more descriptive if you wanted to use nouns. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.orgdiscuss%2bh...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.orgdiscuss%2bh...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- 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 ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications
On 12/20/2010 6:13 AM, Michael Wheatland wrote: On 20/12/2010 7:03 PM, Samuel Mehrbrodts.mehrbr...@googlemail.com wrote: I think it's good to change the names of the Applications so that they describe what each application does. LibreOffice is the brand which will be known and names of the applications should help to find the application you want to use. I would also suggest to translate the names of the applications like Google Docs does. So we could have: Text Table Presentation Drawing Formula I like the idea but you have used a mix of nouns and adjectives. I also think that calc does far more than 'tables', spreadsheet would be more descriptive if you wanted to use nouns. All of these can be nouns, though it would more often be Document than Text (but all of the ODF objects are referred to as documents, so that won't work here). But I agree that Spreadsheet would be a better choice. With the original set here, people trying to create a spreadsheet would most likely try Formula. We also need Base or Database. -- 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 ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] [website][drupal] The Drupal website development update - December 2010
Great job! Is there a timeframe for this to replace the current home page? BTW - your placeholder theme looks fine. I think you could allow the regular users to choose from a range of builtin themes. I build for readability and comprehension and many themes mar those goals. -- 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 ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications
Hello, ... for Spreadsheed / Presentation / Drawing / Formula. ... So we could have: Text Table Presentation Drawing Formula I think we discuss on the basis of computer-stoneage. For example Writer/Word/Text e.g., this began decades ago with only text and a handful of fonts and simple layout inside an 1 MB RAM (or less). Nowadays Writer/Text is more than pages with words. With LO it is possible to create complex layout with different fonts, stiles, pictures, graphic and charts to get books with hundreds of pages in professional styling. Writer/Text/Word are phrases from the past. In the case of Writer/Text we continue StarWriter from 1985 with a modern LO. But this phrases do not reflect the present status of a modern Office-Suite like LO. If we change names, we should do it on the background of the real functions of a modern Office-Suite. For that eventually we have to think deeply about a complete new naming-background for the future LO. Johannes -- 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 ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications
Samuel Mehrbrodt wrote: I think it's good to change the names of the Applications so that they describe what each application does. LibreOffice is the brand which will be known and names of the applications should help to find the application you want to use. I would also suggest to translate the names of the applications like Google Docs does. So we could have: Text Table Presentation Drawing Formula People have complained that if the names of modules were changed then extensions couldn't find them and work with them, and it suddenly occured to me that these extensions may not look for the modules name in the same place that the user sees it when opening the program. correct me if I am wrong in this. but if I am not, it would be possible to change the name where the user sees it, while leaving it alone where the extensions refer to it.That way we could do rebranding without messing up the functionality of anything. -- 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 ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 20.12.2010 10:32, schrieb Samuel Mehrbrodt: LibreOffice is the brand which will be known and names of the applications should help to find the application you want to use. I would also suggest to translate the names of the applications like Google Docs does. I don't care whenever the names get changed or not. That's the reason why I didn't join the discussion about it. If I'm able to recognize what a component does by looking at it's name I'm fine. The reason I join the discussion now is that I disagree about translating the names of the components. I'm German and I like localized help and menus, but dislike translated application names and technical words. I'm on Windows. It would be disturbing if it would be called Fenster. This message is send with Thunderbird (Donnervogel)(Firefox/Feuerfuchs and so on) I agree that users should be able to get help in their native language and that applications should be localized, but translating the actual name goes to far IMHO. Best regards, bastik 20 Dec 2010, 18:42 (+0100) - -- Impurities make things work and sometimes unique. Go Libre! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Gnu Privacy Tools Comment: Download at http://www.gnupt.de Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJND5V8AAoJEJkCkhwrlE2uanEH/2mvGBnSOG/NpfYMhN7g01uI rHVp3vnY43+4H7rI1nRMurW+4FXlfBnrn0t597ulIzpFCEuJliSS+3QbdUJptA/T Cmbj9Z0rCwNfII6jL2W8DbfOfla05mDcEhAmZwVAG2qLRFGkU7ueAX3GCeJNdzrv puqDodpHK3tVispU2Ogslmh92/je8jHbrGxS5aK1Te67xXH2oweIQrGW5hXN8mg2 igCeuavfXfgUWw7d3PPKwuDpv2L+9COHKnqO/z3NQjaHBdh+FupRQGvg/80GzhI1 z8bIDjkJCx/Jv7RH69id0MWsP7uvqe5cFGK6qnesc0gDwrikuhiJh1veLyWt+FE= =F49n -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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] After having joined OIN...
Hi Everyone! After having joined OIN, two next good steps may be join: - http://www.oasis-open.org/about/contributors.php - http://www.odfalliance.org/members.php What do you think about? Have a nice evening, Carlo -- 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 ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] Change executable names
On 2010-12-17 8:09 PM, NoOp wrote: - LO takes over all OOo application defaults icons. - LO uses the same executable names as OOo (soffice.exe, swriter.exe, etc). This makes it impossible to select an .odt and re-associate it with OOo. While I absolutely agree that the executable names should be changed, file associations needs a bit more than that, I was very glad to see that LibO brought back the ability to choose file associations for Word, Excel and Powerpoint file types at install time, but more is needed - the associations for the newer XML formats need to be treated separately, so, instead of just 3 associations, there would be 6. With that one difference in mind, I'd *love* to see LibO implement something along the lines of my long-standing request (77257) for a proper 'File Extension Manager' (which was created long before the new XML formats): http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=77257 -- Best regards, Charles -- 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 ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications
Hi Jeremy and others, ... Johannes A. Bodwingjo...@arcor.de wrote: If we change names, we should do it on the background of the real functions of a modern Office-Suite. For that eventually we have to think deeply about a complete new naming-background for the future LO. On Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:24:06 +0100 RGB ESrgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe for 4.0... but must be planned with great precision and the old version must be supported for some time too. +1 Names for the moduls of LO are not yet the thing. Like some others already said: First their is the final release of LO 3.3 (in januaray 2011 I think). In my opinion after this release we have to clear the goals of TDF and LO and what kind of Office-Suite LO should be in or for the future. Eventually even what other kind of software TDF will make. After that we have a better basis to discuss or not about the best names for LO-modules. That doesn't mean that we fall silent. Everyone can collect his/her ideas till the release of LO 3.3, and then - kick off for the best open Office Suite ever. This leads me to the question: Who from TDF/LO has the overview of the most effiency schedule for major steps of the TDF/LO-project? Is there someone who says what has to come next to build the project in its best way with the personal it has at the moment? And could it be helpful to have such a schedule on the webiste of TDF and all national groups, with a rough timetable and permanently refreshed? Johannes -- 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 ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Name Change for LibreOffice Applications
Hi Johannes, * just one remark about your last paragraph: Johannes A. Bodwing schrieb: [...] Who from TDF/LO has the overview of the most effiency schedule for major steps of the TDF/LO-project? I don't think that such a task can be done by one single person - it has been done as a common task by different teams. Development team knows (more or less) about the skills of the developers working on the LibO source. But as they are volunteers, their areas of interest have to been taken into account: Nobody can be forced by anybody else to work on a specific task. They can be convinced of course (by defining common goals - or paying an adequate amount of money...). Marketing works on public relations and will be the main area for defining our community goals and target groups - based on the Next Decade Manifesto [http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Next_Decade_Manifesto]. Many other teams will have to be taken into account, so there will have to be a group of active community members from all of these teams, sharing their knowledge based on the expertize in their teams with each other and the community. At the moment such a group is the Steering Committee, after the first voting the Board of Directors (BoD) IMHO. When discussion in the different teams led to conclusions, they should be finalized on the steering-discuss list, where all the community members interested in this topic - and I hope it is important to every community member - can follow the discussion. Is there someone who says what has to come next to build the project in its best way with the personal it has at the moment? For tasks not to be covered inside the dedicated teams this should be the SC - led by the experts from the different areas. And could it be helpful to have such a schedule on the webiste of TDF and all national groups, with a rough timetable and permanently refreshed? Of course! Such a schedule should be created by every team, there are already some Work-item pages on the wiki - from the marketing team for example: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Work_Items It might be very helpful for the progress we want to do as a whole, if there would be some community members collecting the tasks and their planned timeframes from the different schedules to a central document. The TDF work-item wiki page http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Work_Items already provides something similar. I just don't know, if it might be possible to keep such a document readable and up-to-date for more than a few months... Best regards Bernhard -- 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 ***
Re: [tdf-discuss] [website][drupal] The Drupal website development update - December 2010
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com wrote: Great job! Is there a timeframe for this to replace the current home page? BTW - your placeholder theme looks fine. I think you could allow the regular users to choose from a range of builtin themes. I build for readability and comprehension and many themes mar those goals. Thanks for the feedback, There is a proposal from Carlos Jenkins regarding the theme which is currently under review within the design team mailing list. IMO Carlos' theme is quite clean and does a good job in maintaining readability while having a modern feel. Please have a look at the proposal and feel free to give feedback either here, on the design list or on the website mailing list. http://www.cjenkins.net/files/LibO_Website_Design_Proposal_DrupalDevTeam.tar.gz The timeframe for implementing a Drupal based community site is dependent on the time it takes to establish high quality customized work flows for the project teams. We are working through the documentation workflow at the moment and an 'idea generation' / 'brainstorm' / Feature request tool is being developed so as to have a structured tool that we can coordinate longer term improvements of LibreOffice. Thanks for the interest and any more feedback is welcomed. Michael Wheatland -- 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 ***