Re: [discuss] OOo Icons

2010-09-28 Thread Dr. Bernhard Dippold
Hi Harold, Drew, all > Drew Jensen wrote: > > [...] > > > > OpenOffice.org is FOSS - by definition then there is always the option > > for members of the project to fork to another. There is in the end > > nothing the parent project can do about it, short of keeping folks in > > such a mind th

Re: [discuss] [OT (but where else to ask?)]: Timestamp in Issuezilla

2010-07-04 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi John, John Kaufmann schrieb: Hi Bernhard, In a message dated 2010.07.01 15:25 -0500, Bernhard Dippold wrote: [...] QA and Website are OpenOffice.org sub-projects like many others. You can reach their front page at http://qa.openoffice.org or http://website.openoffice.org. ... For a more

Re: [discuss] [OT (but where else to ask?)]: Timestamp in Issuezilla

2010-07-01 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi John, * John Kaufmann schrieb: [...] Looking inside any of the issues ... I see the strange time and date format you mentioned ... Unfortunately I can't reply your question why this format has been chosen once Issue Tracker had been set up - and I'm not sure anybody else here might help you.

Re: [discuss] [OT (but where else to ask?)]: Timestamp

2010-06-30 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jonathon, * jonathon schrieb: [...] And that is yet another answer that ignores John's question. The questions John is asking are: * Why does OOo not adhere to the ISO standard for its default date and time notation, but uses a date time system that is, at best, confusing; * What possible fu

Re: [discuss] [OT (but where else to ask?)]: Timestamp in Issuezilla

2010-06-30 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi John, John Kaufmann schrieb: I asked if anyone knew the motivation behind the format of the timestamp in the OO issues database Even if you did mention it more than once - most of us thought you would be talking about the program and perhaps its included database. But what you are refe

Re: [discuss] Re: Question

2010-06-07 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Marius, Marius Popa schrieb: I have taken OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 Portable from http://portableappz.blogspot.com/2010/06/openofficeorg-321-en-us-language-packs.html On the page you link to is an exact description where to get the language packs and how to install them (section: "For other l

Re: [discuss] Search for mentor: Implementation for statistical data analysis tool [was: Re: OpenOffice.org Splash Screen]

2010-05-25 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Buddhika, buddhika wijesinghe schrieb: Sorry . It was a mistake. Main problem is, that most of the people interested in your topic will never read your mail in a thread about OOo Splash Screen... I'd suggest to a) re-post your mail again and create an independent thread by creating a

Re: [discuss] Registration Information

2010-04-29 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Joshua, * Joshua Lee schrieb: I install updates of OpenOffice every time they come out. There used to be 4 buttons: 1. Register now 2. Register Latter 3. I have already Registered 4. I do not want to register. I just installed the latest version and "I have already registered" was not

Re: [discuss] Official request to the community council [was: OOo and Oracle]

2010-04-18 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Cor, * Cor Nouws schrieb: Bernhard Dippold wrote (14-04-10 00:52) Cor Nouws schrieb: [...] Looks as if you ask the council to reconsider the decision (...) to not change further on the product-independent odf icons. Not exactly: I ask the council to decide on the change itself: Is it

Re: [discuss] Re: Official request to the community council

2010-04-18 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Larry Gusaas schrieb: On 2010/04/18 11:52 AM John W Kennedy wrote: On the Mac, the icon for a non-graphics file is a miniature of the first page of the document, if that is meaningful, badged near the bottom with "TXT" "PDF", etc., if the operating system knows how to do it. That only happe

Re: [discuss] Official request to the community council

2010-04-17 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Lars, * don't know why you try to badmouth me - I think you know my dedication to OOo as well as my contributions well enough... Lars Nooden schrieb: On 04/14/2010 12:15 AM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: I don't want to discuss the design of the icons here - it's about their bas

Re: [discuss] Official request to the community council [was: OOo and Oracle]

2010-04-17 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Cor, * Cor Nouws schrieb: [...] About open questions: I wonder if you/others have links to threads / posts on project lists where there has been discussion about this aspect of the icons. There has been quite a number of threads on disc...@ux, including a summary of the discussion on d...@

Re: [discuss] Official request to the community council [was: OOo and Oracle]

2010-04-14 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Cor, all I changed the subject, because I want to follow your proposal to position my concerns officially at the Community Council, while keeping in this thread in order to inform the community about this specific request. *Please don't support the application independency of the ODF docum

Re: [discuss] Official request to the community council [was: OOo and Oracle]

2010-04-13 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Cor, Cor Nouws schrieb: Hi Bernard, *, Bernhard Dippold wrote (13-04-10 23:25) I changed the subject, because I want to follow your proposal to position my concerns officially at the Community Council, while keeping in this thread in order to inform the community about this specific

Re: [discuss] Official request to the community council [was: OOo and Oracle]

2010-04-13 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Cor, all I changed the subject, because I want to follow your proposal to position my concerns officially at the Community Council, while keeping in this thread in order to inform the community about this specific request. *Please don't support the application independency of the ODF docum

Re: [discuss] unsubscribed posters [... Re: Annoying problem]

2010-03-10 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Drew, all, Drew Jensen schrieb: [...] Before jumping in with opinions could I ask a question, please. OO.o sprouts more then just the English users ML, it has a German list, French, and others - yes. Do these other MLs also experience these problems? Do they also take non subscribed pos

Re: [discuss] [unsubscribed posters] which has nothing to do with Re: Annoying problem

2010-03-09 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Drew, all, sorry for double posting - my mails to this list seem to be sent automatically via my OOo alias (all other lists work fine...) If any moderator reads my first mail, just reject it please... Drew Jensen schrieb: [...] Before jumping in with opinions could I ask a question, please

Re: [discuss] User Poll

2010-02-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hello Mr. Martin! (I'd prefer "Hi Bruce" as we are both part of the vivid OpenOffice.org project) Bruce Martin schrieb: Dear Herr Dippold: It seems to me that you are trying to create/collect a collection of Oo-related tools that you can publish on a CD, possibly to raise funds in support of

Re: [discuss] User Poll

2010-02-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Andy, * RA Brown schrieb: [...] What I would like to get fellow users to send me a list of three extensions and templates that they use. I would then add the top ten from each to the disk. If you can take the time to send me, either in this list, or direct at a...@the-martin-byrd.net I wo

Re: [discuss] Who is William W Austin?

2009-12-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Rob, * Rob Clement schrieb: it seems that this person keeps sending the same e-mails with dats in 2006 and 2007. I have received them for about the third time today. any ideas? Some years ago I had a similar problem: Using the Mozilla Suite and a POP mailbox I chose the option to keep the

Re: [discuss] Moderator-Forced Unsubscribes

2009-12-16 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Paul, Paul schrieb: [...] I have in fact, just very recently, been given the status of project owner (there can be many 'owners') for the applicable project in order to add/remove subscribers from both the discuss and users list. So you have the necessary rights :-) I'm sure that you wi

Re: [discuss] Moderator-Forced Unsubscribes

2009-12-16 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany schrieb: Hi Barbara, So far, I've seen no evidence that anybody actually monitors the users-owner account. Hmm .. maybe we can petition to have Paul be the list owner? :-) If he volunteers, this can be done. Just verified with Mart

[discuss] New project to be started - anybody interested in branding and visual design?

2009-11-30 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, sorry for cross-posting, but this is the only way I know to reach all the relevant groups. Please - DON'T use REPLY ALL when you reply to this mail! Best follow up would be on discuss@openoffice.org, otherwise stay on the list you are subscribed to (I'll collect the replies) or use t

Re: [discuss] Ia2 support in open office.

2009-11-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Malte *, Malte Timmermann schrieb: You think some "deb" (assuming that means debutant==beginner) would be able to answer?[...] As Kevin states that he is using a screen reader, perhaps this was just a typo: If he wanted to write "dev" (for developer) and his finger moved a few cm to t

Re: [discuss] Incubator vote request - OpenOfficeMouse

2009-11-13 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Theo, all, there are some points I'd like to add to the opinions already mentioned by others - perhaps they may lead to a less black-or-white view... === as this mail is becoming quite long, please scroll to the last 10 lines, if you are short in time === You've been in contact to John a

Re: [discuss] Re: Filter for moderated mails [was: Re: why be subscribed (was this)]

2009-10-22 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Mike, all, Mike Scott schrieb: [...] As I've suggested before, it shouldn't be too hard to screen unsubscribed submissions and return a likely answer automatically, plus an explanation of the benefits of subscription. As moderator of the a...@marketing.ooo mailing list I get all the mails

Re: [discuss] Re: [project leads] Call for Nominations for Community Council Election

2009-10-21 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Christoph, all, Christoph Noack schrieb: Hi everyone! André, thank you very much for your trust to nominate me. To make it short: I'm happy to say that I agree. Great to read this - there are few people I know with your aptitudes in the OOo project. I really believe in the whole commun

Re: [discuss] Filter for moderated mails [was: Re: why be subscribed (was this)]

2009-10-19 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, Gordon schrieb: Michael Adams wrote: I have a working system of filtering unsubscribed posts to a subfolder. It took me a little time to understand the header contents which were well explained and less than 10 minutes to set up the required filters. Can you point us noobs to the re

Re: [discuss] My prosposal: Usability and the footnote function

2009-10-18 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Jonathon, * jonathon schrieb: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 07:25, Uwe Fischer wrote: So what is wrong with the main documentation page at http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation Just like everything about the OOo project, it is hidden from those who don't know that what they want

Re: [discuss] Re: OO.o Moving forward ...

2009-10-07 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Frank, all, Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany schrieb: [...] We once had a search box at http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html which really queried the issue database, that is, you enter one or more terms, and all issues containing this term in the summary (not

Re: [discuss] some ideas where ooo can even better take off

2009-09-01 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Max, Max Staudinger (iii-C) schrieb: i am just downloading 3.1.0, You heard about OOo 3.1.1? I'd suggest you to install the new version, released today! i am an excited user promoting this also to many people around me Great! - this is the best way to raise knowledge about OOo and to f

Re: [discuss] Product Registration

2009-09-01 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Martin, all, Martin Hollmichel schrieb: Peter Hillier-Brook schrieb: I hope that this is the right LIST; I can't think of anywhere more appropriate. Having just installed 3.1.1 I was confronted, as in previous versions, by the registration dialogue box containing 3 alternatives: Register n

Re: [discuss] security poster

2009-06-02 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Harry, * it seems that your poster didn't reach this list, as the mailserver strips off most attachments. If you want to, you may upload it to tour wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Upload (please add a word about the licensing in the comment in order to make it reusab

Re: [discuss] OOo project proposal: Security Project

2009-05-30 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Malte, all, Malte Timmermann wrote: Hi, [...] I thought it would be a good idea to start a security project, which could take care for security and privacy related things long term. +1 Bernhard - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[discuss] New wiki page for screenshots

2009-05-15 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, sorry for cross-posting, but this might be relevant for several projects. (Please forward this mail to other projects, where I'm not subscribed like documentation, native lang ...) As I didn't find a repository for OOo3 screenshots, I created a wiki page for that purpose: http://wi

Re: [discuss] Open Office - Latvian lang.

2009-04-07 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Normunds, Matthias, all, Mathias Bauer wrote: Hi, Normunds Gudens wrote: Hello! You have perfect product! But not in my language. Maybe I can help you translate Open Office to Latvian language? [...] How you think? And maybe you're searching for people supporting you? If I understand Ma

Re: [discuss] Please Remove Me

2009-03-26 Thread Bernhard Dippold
[sent this mail using a wrong address, so it might come again after moderation - please excuse the additional work for you moderators] Hi Joe, I don't know if you finally managed to become unsubscribed, so I add your email address to CC [only to the original mail] Joseph & Jane Washington wr

Re: [discuss] Performance project - becoming an incubator project

2009-01-07 Thread Dr. Bernhard Dippold
Hi Thorsten, Dieter, all, Thorsten Behrens wrote: [...] While I definitely applaud all efforts spend improving performance of OOo, I see serious overlap in scope with existing projects. You're right, Thorsten, we don't need parallel work in different projects. But I hope, this might be able t

Re: [discuss] Performance project - becoming an incubator project

2009-01-06 Thread Dr. Bernhard Dippold
Dieter Loeschky wrote: Hi, [...] Li Heng from RedOffice and I want to set up a new incubator project which takes care of the Performance of OOo. [...] We would like to ask all of you to support and to vote for this new project. +1 Best regards Bernhard -

Re: [discuss] Important: Plebiscite on Changes to Council Charter

2008-12-14 Thread Dr. Bernhard Dippold
Hi André, all, André Schnabel wrote: Hi, [...]You miss a change in the meaning of the sections wrong. > [...] For every group (but Sun Staff member) the term *representative* is used. This is on purpose - as the people in the council should reprecent a group of people - but to represent a gr

Re: [discuss] Important: Plebiscite on Changes to Council Charter

2008-12-11 Thread Dr. Bernhard Dippold
Hi Louis, all, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Bernhard, On 2008-12-07, at 09:07 , Dr. Bernhard Dippold wrote: I don't know if it is on purpose, that the Community Manager (Louis) is not part of the Community Council. ? I was elected and continue to be re-elected to this body, making me pa

Re: [discuss] Important: Plebiscite on Changes to Council Charter

2008-12-07 Thread Dr. Bernhard Dippold
Hi, I don't know if it is on purpose, that the Community Manager (Louis) is not part of the Community Council. He might be included as "Sun Staff Member", but the only part where Community Managers are mentioned is the one about approving modifications to the charter. As this plebiscite will

[discuss] Re: Proposal for a New OpenOffice.org Art Project

2007-07-24 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, please forgive me that I'm breaking three rules for our mailing lists: - double posting on two lists - not replying in the thread - causing moderators to moderate my mail because I stay unsubscribed For the people not knowing me: I've been working extensively on the Art Project from Aug

[discuss] Off for about 6 months...

2007-02-22 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hello community, I'm going to send this mail to several lists hoping to reach all the people used to get my replies once and again... Despite my attempts to reduce my activities concerning OOo I realized more and more tasks where I felt I had to pronounce my opinion and proposals - leading to ev

[discuss] Re: [native-lang] International Mother Language Day - 21 February

2007-02-19 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi again... Bernhard Dippold wrote: > Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > > > Hi, > > On 2007-02-19, at 14:54 , Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > > > > > Did a special page for this get created? If so, where? I'd like to > > > have a little blurb on the OOo

[discuss] Mother Languages Day poster (was: Please join (and spread the word): Community member's photos for poster)

2007-02-17 Thread Bernhard Dippold
from outside Europe), so if you or your project members want to, you may attach your photo to the issue mentioned below... Best regards Bernhard Bernhard Dippold schrieb: Hi all, sorry for cross-posting, but I'd like to reach as many community members as possible. Follow-up at [

[discuss] Please join (and spread the word): Community member's photos for poster

2007-02-15 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, sorry for cross-posting, but I'd like to reach as many community members as possible. Follow-up at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if possible. In a few days (Feb. 21th) there will be the UNESCO International Mother Language Day [1] and John McCreesh asked the Native-Lang Confederation if we would

Re: [discuss] Re: Opening WPS files in OO

2007-02-11 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Ian Lynch schrieb: On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 23:34 +, Jonathon Blake wrote: b) That Microsoft provides a wps2doc filter is relevant only to users of their products. It is irrelevant to users of PerfectOffice, or users of OOo, or other ODF aware programs. Well not entirely since a wps2doc fi

Re: [discuss] Unsubscribe me !!!

2007-01-25 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Henri, Henri Russell (E-mail) schrieb: Return-path: You have sent your mail with the following address: henrirolandrussell.com Your return path shows a different mail address: srs0gcwhr4=f7=rolandrussell.com=henri=yourhostingaccount.com (perhaps a shorter version with another of the "="

Re: [discuss] Issuezilla and simple users

2007-01-22 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Chad, Chad Smith schrieb: [...] Maybe it's just me - but I think it would be better to get a bunch of junk entries (duplicates, spam, incomplete issues, idiots who don't know how to run spell check and calling it a bug, etc.) and get some good feedback with it than not getting any feedback at

Re: [discuss] Issuezilla and simple users, WAS: Re: [discuss] Re: [ui-dev] Proposing a new User Experience project on OOo

2007-01-20 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, just one more possibility to ease Issue Tracker for "newbies": Provide a link with all the relevant informations! If you want someone to add his/her bug in Issue Tracker, start a new issue, save it as template and remove all the not necessary information (especially maketemplate and r

Re: [discuss] Proposing a new User Experience project on OOo

2007-01-17 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Lutz, all, Lutz Hoeger schrieb: Hi, This message is cross-posted to discuss@, users@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED], in order to reach a broad audience. However, I would be happy if most of the comments / discussion / etc. could be sent to discuss@ only (not sure if the reply-to header works here)

Re: [discuss] Feature request

2007-01-11 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Mtchell, Mitchell C. Swan<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/10/07, Sigrid Kronenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi Mitchell, > > > > you're not subscribed to this mailinglist, so you missed some of the > > answers. > > > > I attempted to subscribe through Thunderbird and my newsse

Re: [discuss] how does one find templates and further graphics.

2006-12-29 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi John, Adrian, all Adrian Try wrote: To all: How does one find a listing of templates and graphics for use with OpenOffice? Hi John You'll find templates here http://ooextras.sourceforge.net/ Clipart here http://www.openclipart.org/ Photos here http://openphoto.net/ Or, if you'd like tha

Re: [discuss] suggestion

2006-12-18 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Grant, Terry, * Terry schrieb: Grant Fuller wrote: A logical progression for OpenOffice would be the addition of a monthly planner calendar that can be saved on the hard drive as well as uploaded to a web site. The Google free calendar is of no value when one is away from an internet conne

Re: [discuss] non-code extensions [was :OxygenOffice.org's packages] for OpenOffice.org

2006-11-27 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Mathias Bauer schrieb: KAMI wrote: That' what I wrote ;-): Gallery and template extensions are easy to be integrated in OOo (just click on "Add" in "Tools - Extension manager" and search for the .oxt files), but there should be a hint somewhere to close OOo before you search for the newly in

Re: [discuss] OxygenOffice.org's packages for OpenOffice.org

2006-11-26 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Thanks, KAMI! KAMI schrieb: Hello OpenOffice.org Fans! I am uploading some OxygenOffice Professional based extensions to enhance your OpenOffice.org experience :o) You can download it from here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170021&package_id=208656 Please report an

Re: [discuss] Proposals for / contribution to OOo (was: Office 2007)

2006-11-14 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi Terry, Paul, * - caution: long posting! - as you probably know, the project is huge. Many volunteers devote some time to it - more or less, as much they are willing / able to contribute. To keep this large project workable there are different mailing lists for several purposes, and not eve

Re: [discuss] Site Open Office

2006-11-09 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Alexandro wrote: you can go to http://fr.openoffice.org On 11/7/06, mbx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bonjour, Une suggestion : Puisque OO est un outil multi langues, pourquoi le site n'est-il qu'en anglais ? Il me semble que la diffusion d'OO serait beaucoup plus efficace et facile si le site

[discuss] Not the right time for a new Incubator Project art.openoffice.org ?

2006-11-02 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hello all, I'm sorry that I didn't follow up after my proposal of an independent Art Project, but the last weeks showed me, that I don't have >40 hours a week every time. As there have not been any positive replies to my proposal (except the comments by Louis Suarez-Potts, John McCreesh and

[discuss] Changing standard menu entry from "date" to "date fixed"?

2006-10-31 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Hi all, I just stepped over Issue 69747 and read a comment with the proposal to modify the existent menu entry Insert - Field - Date to Insert - Field - "Date (fixed)" to show clearly that this field inserts a fixed date instead of a variable date field sometimes expected by some users. http

Re: [discuss] Referendum on changing length of CC service

2006-10-31 Thread Bernhard Dippold
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: [...] Right now it is 12 months for project/native-lang leads and 6 months for the CCR. The change would double that, to 24 months for leads and 12 months for the CCR. +1 Bernhard - To unsubscribe,

[discuss] Proposal for moving the Art Project to an Incubator Project

2006-10-12 Thread Bernhard Dippold
nt look of OpenOffice.org in present and future versions as basis of our visual identity. Best regards Bernhard Dippold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [1]: http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=15140 [2]: http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=d