RE: [discuss] [Q] [developers need hints]: How should it work???was [Re: [discuss] Re: How can I remove the language attribute from text inWriter?

2008-06-02 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
On windows the program you are looking for is http://www.kompozer.net/ Like most opensource programs OO.o trys to be best at what it already does, not move into areas that are already covered by good alternatives. Which is why openoffice does not have a mail program although it integrates with

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

2006-11-23 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
That's great extensions/addins are the best way to avoid bloating out the standard installer after all not everyone needs templates or clip art right away. -Original Message- From: KAMI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 24 November 2006 3:56 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org

RE: [discuss] Paul Maddison - openoffice phonetic guide enhancement

2006-09-07 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
You might consider investing the money that would otherwise be spend on upgrading MS office on hiring a consulting programmer to implement this feature. Also if enough people collaborate on providing the raw information needed for the guide then it may be implemented sooner. Try contacting the

RE: [discuss] DO YOU HAVE A CALENDAR FEATUTE SIMILAR TO MICROSOFT

2006-08-08 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Actually there already are versions of OO.o with everything included such as email/IM client etc, except they are usually called Linux distros. The extent of the integration is a different matter, but OO.o is already better off than say Word which will happily spindle fold and mutilate any excel

RE: [discuss] Network Discovery

2006-07-06 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
If your running windows I'd look at a package called The Dude http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Dude_usage_notes#What_is_the_Dude It does network discovery and diagrams the results -Original Message- From: Daniel Kasak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 7 July 2006 12:04 PM To:

RE: [discuss] Dump X11 for Mac

2006-05-22 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Dump X11 - make it native Mac and you will automatically get Mac users. Thanks for the assistance. There is a native OS-X port of OOo, but it's the 1.1.x version. From memory, the native OS-X port of 2.0 was dropped due to a lack of developer interest. But maybe you can give them a prep-talk and

RE: [discuss] Visual Basic in OpenOffice.Calc

2006-05-19 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
You can control Ooo from C# or VB.net via a usercontrol on your forms which may be what you are looking for See http://opendocument4all.com/content/view/22/39/ -Original Message- From: CPHennessy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 May 2006 3:32 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org;

RE: [discuss] Email

2006-04-11 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
-Original Message- From: Alexandro Colorado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 12 April 2006 9:57 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Email On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:39:42 -0400, Andrew Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 55,000 euros is $66,600 US dollars...hehe

RE: [discuss] OpenOffice.org Premium 2.0.2

2006-03-20 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Not actually spam I think OO.o premium is as I understand it the standard version of OO.o plus clip art from OO Extras and addons such as fonts See http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discussmsgNo=56131 for details It looks to be 176mb in size which is not bad considering the

RE: [discuss] Re: SO 5.2 Images Pixels

2006-01-17 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Evolution Win32 is Alpha software so an installer is probably on its way, until then Read the instructions in ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/desktop/2.12/2.12.2/win32/README.evolution . Download all the non-developer (i.e. not the ones with -dev- in their names) zipfiles in

[discuss] Evolution for win32 goes alpha

2006-01-11 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
I don't know if this has been mentioned before Periodically the users list gets a question like what do I use to Replace Outlook on win32 ? the usual reply being thunderbird which is good but lacks some corporate features. In future we can refer such querys to the evolution win32 project The

RE: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-08 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Oh come on, OOo should really have all these things integrated, with a gimp-like tool as well, and it's own integrated OS, and a dog agility course designer, and an integrated network packet sniffer would be nice, and... :) Well this is where extensions come in, got the Gimp installed ?

RE: [discuss] Google - no thanks

2005-10-13 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Are you the author of the package ?, nice idea and implementation. This would be a nice addition to the main project for 2.1 How about a button for integration with Wikipedia's sister project http://en.wiktionary.org/ a dictionary wiki which seems a natural fit for a word processing package.

RE: [discuss] Google - no thanks

2005-10-12 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
I suspect that enriching documents with web content eg enable the user to add a link to definition of a technical term by just selecting it right click and add definition would be the kind of thing that would be considered. Or maybe analysis of document content to provide a set of topical web

RE: [discuss] copernic and OO0

2005-10-04 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
For reason known only to themselves (corporate ownership ??) they don't support Ooo formats. Try a sane alternative such as google desktop search -Original Message- From: A.G.Forman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:05 AM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject:

RE: [discuss] copernic and OO0

2005-10-04 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
You could also try O3find (http://web.tiscali.it/fanelia/sw/o3find/) Which supports 98, it also has a dos version. -Original Message- From: Larry Gusaas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2005 1:34 PM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: RE: [discuss] copernic and OO0

RE: [discuss] Re: Breaking News: Massachusetts mandated use of OpenDocument is FINAL

2005-09-25 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Whats the bet MS brings out a special version of office available only in Massachusetts to address this, like the media player less version of windows in the EU. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

RE: [discuss] new product project recomendations

2005-09-12 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Try Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) for diagrams, and Planner (http://developer.imendio.com/wiki/Planner) for projects. Thunderbird makes a decent replacement for outlook but keep an eye on Evolution for win32 (http://evolution-win32.sourceforge.net) None of the above are MS compatable

RE: [discuss] Page numbering

2005-08-01 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Have you considered writing a macro ? Just use the macro recorder to record a typical page number insert then if needed change the critical values to variables And prompt the user for the value, you can then assign the Macro to a toolbar. e.g. Dim Pageoffset as Integer Pageoffset = InputBox(

RE: [discuss] Community-based computer literacy project

2005-07-31 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Your first point of reference for openoffice should be The documentation website, this has manuals you can download and distribute in acrobat format The address is http://documentation.openoffice.org/ See also http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Using_the_OpenOffice.org_Suite Best wishes for

RE: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Sorry, I didn't realize that I could schedule work shifts for 500 people using Outlook When did they add that capability? Planner is a neat GPL Gantt chart and resource allocation app It's available under Gnome and there is a pretty complete windows port It looks like a good alternative for

[discuss] OO.o displaces Koffice etc in Fedora core

2005-06-17 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
hope so because that would mean OO was moving to support high end and larger corporate users which would be good for funding and support. IBM please return the code you borrowed ! Justin Fitzgibbon - To unsubscribe, e-mail

RE: [discuss] Ideas for Writer ~2.1 (or later)

2005-04-12 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
P.S. -- It's a strong sign of a project when my only issues with it are minor annoyances like OMG!!!1 teh program took my focus!!1 instead of OMG!!!1 teh program took my document!!1) Even better that when it does corrupt a document you can unzip the file and look at the XML where the

RE: [discuss] customize startup menu

2005-04-10 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
you could always name it with a numeric prefix to show items at the top of the list eg 01 my letter 02 my fax other stuff 1 more stuff - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

RE: [discuss] data base in OOo2?

2005-04-06 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
I believe that the next version (5.x) of mysql will have both views and stored procedures. http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-storedprocedures.html http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-views.html MySQL/PostgreSQL are natural partners for OO.o for medium sized

RE: [discuss] Re: OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge

2005-03-23 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
one responsible for corrupting a file that 20 other people are using and have to explain why I was using OOo instead of Word or Excel to my boss. From my experience OOo is likely to recover a document that can't be opened in word anymore rather than corrupt it, especially version 2. With

RE: [discuss] openoffice security

2005-03-06 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
This security should be on two levels - lower which allows changes on entering a password and locked _which prevents changes ever being made. If the contents of a document can be decrypted in order to view it theres no way to then lock it against changes, or prevent people printing it etc,

RE: [discuss] OpenOffice.org receives award.

2005-01-19 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
Then they are stupid ;-) A difference of emphasis I think, if having the fastest hardware is really important to you, for games and the like then you'll want to save as much as possible on software to spend on the latest 3D accelerator or whatever. So gamers/modders could be an important