Re: [tdf-discuss] Contact TDF?

2012-04-13 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
would stay right here. :) Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. -James 1:4 http://asimplediscipleslife.blogspot.com/ mlaverd.theunixplace.com On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com

Re: [tdf-discuss] Mail Merge to Email in Writer

2012-04-13 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
to handle thousands of emails make the client freeze? Would it be automated nicely, so that the user doesn't have to click on 'send' until their fingers fall off? I don't have the answer to those questions... I am just giving my two cents. Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE Perseverance must finish its work so

Re: [tdf-discuss] new fonts

2011-11-15 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
Hello, I am not sure if this is the right mailing list, but here is the answer anyway: you just download and install them using whichever method your operating system gives you to install... Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete

Re: [tdf-discuss] phpbb for the official LO forums

2011-11-05 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
IIRC, phpbb has a security hole now and then. That would make it higher maintenance in the long run. On 5 Nov 2011 06:07, Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/11/2011 10:52, Alexandre Silveira wrote: After following this debate,i sugest a profession... phpbb as well works with

Re: [tdf-discuss] phpbb for the official LO forums

2011-11-04 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
I don't need to bet that it would help a looot!!! Maybe we can put multiple links, one as beta or experimental? Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. -James 1:4 http://asimplediscipleslife.blogspot.com

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: user forums ?

2011-11-01 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
migrating a little bit later, once the thing proves to be viable. How does that sound to everyone? Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. -James 1:4 http://asimplediscipleslife.blogspot.com/ mlaverd.theunixplace.com

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-10-31 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
I am not too inclined towards our own whatever for user support because a) that's not cool to split the community b) we'll get flak on LWN et al and c) we loose gazillion pages of answered problems that may be useful for the next guy. Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE Perseverance must finish its work so

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-10-30 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
... Best, Charles. Le 30/10/2011 11:40, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit : On 30/10/2011 01:27, Marc-André Laverdière wrote: I know that I am skipping a lot of the back-a... -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-10-30 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
just assume there's no fundamental truth in either mailing list or forums usage... Best, Charles. Le 30/10/2011 13:42, Marc-André Laverdière a écrit : Who in their right mind want forums? If you want exchange of ideas, mailing lists are great. ... -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: user forums ?

2011-10-30 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
+ On 30 Oct 2011 13:49, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2011-10-30 11:40, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Single sign-on is indeed something I'd like to see soon, but there are no concrete plans as o... OpenId is the option that users would be most familiar, there are many sites using

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: user forums ?

2011-10-30 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
+1 for open id. Sorry for the extra email... my phone's touch screen is a bit off sometimes. On 30 Oct 2011 13:49, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2011-10-30 11:40, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Single sign-on is indeed something I'd like to see soon, but there are no concrete plans

Re: [tdf-discuss] user forums ?

2011-10-29 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
users to just migrate our forums to stack exchange. I don't know about their pricing, but why not ask? Marc-André LAVERDIÈRE Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. -James 1:4 http://asimplediscipleslife.blogspot.com/ mlaverd.theunixplace.com

Re: [tdf-discuss] Went Vanilla...

2011-09-02 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
Thanks for sharing! I'm glad to have such good news!!! -- Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On Thu 01 Sep 2011 02:12:03 AM IST, Robert Boehm wrote: Hi Folksjust wanted to mention on this listand maybe see

Re: [tdf-discuss] [QA] Opening a .doc file - Regression in Libreoffice 3.4 ???

2011-08-26 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
Hello Sveinn, There has been a bunch of changes in 3.4 that were related to malformed documents. I ran the document through valgrind in 3.3, and I didn't get anything... This is, sadly, going to be much harder than I expected :( -- Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation

Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

2011-08-01 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
think :) As for the spreading of ODF, I suggest to pick a different battle: the one where the governments make it the default format for all their forms. Now _that_ would change things. Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India

Re: [tdf-discuss] LO freezing the entire OS ( ubuntu 11.04, 64 bit)

2011-07-27 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
Hi, This mailing list is not really meant for bug reports. Is it possible for you to open an issue in bugzilla and include the file in it? Regards, Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On 07/27/2011 10:19 PM, Gyorgy wrote

Re: [tdf-discuss] disclaimer for extension website

2011-07-22 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
While that is certainly advisable, I think we need some good CYA. Some people in this sad sad world just like to sue. Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On 07/21/2011 11:57 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I think the DMCA

Re: [tdf-discuss] TDF fundraising suggestion - Bitcoin

2011-07-12 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
I think that the EFF is a bit too cautious about the whole thing and I wouldn't follow suit. I don't see any problem getting bitcoin donations. And TDF can keep hold of them until the rate is good and exchange it in euros. Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Adabas database usage

2011-06-17 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
Is there _any_ database that people use that doesn't have a JDBC driver at this point? Maybe we can keep our lives simple by only enabling JDBC drivers? Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On 06/12/2011 02:19 AM

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [Libreoffice] Proposal to join Apache OpenOffice

2011-06-09 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
a lot. Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On 06/09/2011 12:11 AM, Greg Stein wrote: On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 14:04, BRMbm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: ... I'm quite pleased to see the ASF members (at least here) not taking

[tdf-discuss] Java Support to Stay or Not?

2011-05-19 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
I've read somewhere that there is discussion on ditching support for Java in LO. Is this true? Is there a decision taken the matter? -- Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h

Re: [tdf-discuss] Features enterprises will love to have in LibreOffice

2011-05-16 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
, but it should be a very no-frills thing. Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On Wednesday 19 January 2011 04:45 PM, Christophe Strobbe wrote: At 11:48 19/01/2011, Jaime R. Garza wrote: Hello, I believe the best feature

[tdf-discuss] Standardized Open Fonts

2011-04-18 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
%, since they are metric compatible with the ones commonly used (Arial, TNR. Courier New). What other ones should be seen as 'must have'? Regards, -- Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail

[tdf-discuss] Revamping of OO APIs

2010-12-08 Thread Marc-André Laverdière
in this revamping effort we are, and how much more work is needed until we have a stable API to code with. Thanks and regards, -- Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h