Re: Playing ping pong with ODF version; does it pose a danger to the end user.

shes, Drew On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 3:05 PM Regina Henschel wrote: > > Hi Drew, > > Drew Jensen schrieb am 22.04.2021 um 18:59: > > Howdy, > > > > Recently I exchanged a few documents between a number of ODF editors: > > LO 7.1 (all documents were created her

Playing ping pong with ODF version; does it pose a danger to the end user.

Howdy, Recently I exchanged a few documents between a number of ODF editors: LO 7.1 (all documents were created here with default settings) Google Docs Microsoft Office 365 Apache OpenOffice In the case of all Google and MSO the files open up without any kind of warning about the ODF version

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Live streaming LibreOffice bug triaging (week 10)

Howdy, Am wondering if you would like this information shared via a SM post targeted to potential QA contributors? I saw that there were two such posts on a Twitter account a couple months back but none others, so perhaps you wouldn't want that and thought I'd ask first before doing so. Thanks

Re: Modify Libreoffice UI

Howdy Heiko, Since I've switched almost entirely to use of the tabbed interface I was wondering if there is any time frame for fully updating the tabbed (notebookbar) interface using the customization dialog? I know there is a limited support currently but far short of what is available for the

Calc Solvers Info Doc/wiki page Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

review of the current state of the document is most welcome. At the moment the file is in my private storage space on the NC server; I would prefer to move it to the shared documentation folder but wasn't sure where to put it? Thanks, Drew On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 6:54 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > >

Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

t; and would not benefit from being expanded further to include more solver > details. > > Regards, > > Steve > > > On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 06:39, Drew Jensen wrote: >> >> HI, >> >> Well, I noticed something aside from the Guide and that is the FAQ >

Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

engines in LO - for one thing maybe a bit more. Anyway, any feedback is welcome. Will post tomorrow when those changes are made. Thanks, Drew On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 7:31 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > > This is an interesting point of differentiation. > Reviewing some of the tools

Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

at, May 16, 2020 at 5:22 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > > Well here is something > Looking at the help file for version 7 > https://help.libreoffice.org/7.0/en-US/text/scalc/01/solver.html?=CALC=UNIX > the final text box states that 'only linear solvers are in the default > instal

Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

e Calc Guide, I will follow Kohei's advice that it > is probably beyond the scope of the document to provide guidance on how to > select a solver. > > I'll try to make some time before the 7.0 Calc Guide update to re-visit > this decision. > > Regards, > > Steve > > >

Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

say it is experimental). On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 7:55 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > hmm - there are bits and pieces here and there. > > For example the first two choices (DEPS & SCO) have some explanation over > at AOO wiki > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/NLPSolver > If

Re: Calc solvers - what to say in the Calc Guide

hmm - there are bits and pieces here and there. For example the first two choices (DEPS & SCO) have some explanation over at AOO wiki https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/NLPSolver If that is still relevant for LibreOffice I can't say, but likely. CoinMD (which I assume here is type of Coin-MP) has a

Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] Multi-threading in Calc

, 2020 at 4:56 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > To follow up on that. > > Using LO 6.4 & 7.0 pre-release build on Ubuntu. Recalculating one of the > OpenCL test xls files just now. > > Starting up with a command line > MAX_CONCURRENCY=0 ./soffice > Does turn the CPU t

Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] Multi-threading in Calc

2020 at 1:48 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > BTW I'm copying a paragraph from an email on a different list. > > "Also - if you set MAX_CONCURRENCY=16 - or somesuch (ie. twice your > number of threads) - you may be able to defeat the hyper-threaded > halving, and see if this workload hap

Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] Multi-threading in Calc

BTW I'm copying a paragraph from an email on a different list. "Also - if you set MAX_CONCURRENCY=16 - or somesuch (ie. twice your number of threads) - you may be able to defeat the hyper-threaded halving, and see if this workload happens to be one that does better with hyper-threading than

Re: How do I get rid of this error? Macro file requires OpenOffice but I would like to use Libreoffice

or happened. Good job, thanks Drew > > Jean-Pierre > > Le 11/03/20 à 21:34, Drew Jensen a écrit : > > Actually as I think about it. > > > > Isn't one of the differences between AOO and LO that AOO creates a new > > calc file with multiple sheets and LO crea

Re: How do I get rid of this error? Macro file requires OpenOffice but I would like to use Libreoffice

eets in a new Calc file and wanted to delete two. Changing the options setting from 1 to 3 allows it to run that function. Good job, thanks Drew > > Jean-Pierre > > Le 11/03/20 à 21:34, Drew Jensen a écrit : > > Actually as I think about it. > > > > Isn't one of the

Re: How do I get rid of this error? Macro file requires OpenOffice but I would like to use Libreoffice

, Mar 11, 2020 at 4:31 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > Interesting. > > Just did a search in the issue tracking system and there is an open issue > regarding RemoveByName, but in a different context. > > Taking a quick look at that function and where it is called from it seems > a qu

Re: How do I get rid of this error? Macro file requires OpenOffice but I would like to use Libreoffice

Interesting. Just did a search in the issue tracking system and there is an open issue regarding RemoveByName, but in a different context. Taking a quick look at that function and where it is called from it seems a quick test using a copy of that function should be a fairly quick exercise.

Re: Create my own function in Libreoffice Writer

Howdy, For a first start I'd recommend you grab a copy of the Writer Guide (6.0 is the latest of today) here: https://documentation.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Documentation/en/WG6.0/WG60-WriterGuideLO.pdf Jump to Chapter 21 which covers basics of how to customize both menus and toolbars. If

GSoC 2020

Howdy, Noticed that Google has just released the selection for this years GSoC mentoring projects; LibreOffice has been selected. https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/02/google-summer-of-code-2020-mentoring.html Best wishes, Drew ___ LibreOffice

Re: Open Source Hackathon Mentorship Invitation

Hello Misha, First I would like to thank you for taking the time to reach out to the community here. The work you are doing seems quite exciting and certainly appears to fit well with the goals of The Document Foundation. I suspect the biggest hurdle at the moment is time, or lack thereof, with

Problem launching latest dev build of LO7

Howdy, Running Ubuntu 18.04 (64bit) with LIBC_2.27 installed from the OS repo. Was successfully running Version: 7.0.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 4ff12ba6f4639c73587f2bb58afcc3ca6fb30105 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: kf5; TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@86-TDF, Branch:master,

LibreOffice and old Microsoft Binary file formats.

Howdy, Today I worked with 5 different word processors (LibreOffice 6.4, OnlyOffice 5.2, MS Word web, LibreOffice online and Google Docs, all current and in use in the wild. Of those 5 only one still allows the user to save files in the old Microsoft Binary version. In fact the other 4,

Re: GPU optimization feedback (I hope ;-)

would be happy to share my sheets, such as they are, with them." So, question for the list; Take him up on the offer? If there is a use for another test file I'll let them know and IDK get it to the QA group, I guess - ? Thanks On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 2:10 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > Howd

GPU optimization feedback (I hope ;-)

Howdy, Thought I'd pass on a twitter exchange, to the list here, between myself and Wikisteff regarding another attempt to benchmark some of the changes to Calc recently. Wikisteff: "Oh, yeah! I wrote a 25th order Runge-Kutta integrator in Excel without using VB as well." Wikisteff: "Well, it

Re: Base without HSQL support?

On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 11:41 AM Caolán McNamara wrote: > On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 18:00 -0400, Drew Jensen wrote: > > > > Should the Migration Assistant be enabled by default yes, but the > > default button on the Dialog box which opens when the connection to > > an HSQL

Base without HSQL support?

Howdy, I'm just going to jump into it. If the question is; should Base not include the HSQL driver in the 6.3 release I would say no. Should Firebird Embedded SDBC be the default selection for new Base files, I'm agnostic. But Yes to include it as an option (without needing experimental mode).

Re: Myanmar dictionary

Just in case 64bit Linux is correct for you - if you start on the main download page, find your OS and you will find a link to the language packs there for your particular OS. On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 3:18 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > Howdy, > > If you are looking for Burmese there is a lang

Re: Myanmar dictionary

Howdy, If you are looking for Burmese there is a language pack listed on the download page. All available are listed here https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/?type=deb-x86_64=6.2.3=pick Hope that helps. Best wishes, Drew On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 3:04 PM Cyrille wrote: > Hello, >

Re: [Bug 123999] time change causes the return of "parameter index out of range... using mysql and J/connector

Howdy Dan, You find all the daily builds at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ I install those in parallel on my system, which I figure you already know how to do but for those who may not: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel Best wishes, Drew On Sat, Mar 30,

Re: Bug 122520 foreign key constraints

Hola Dan, Noticed that Tamas Bunth checked in two patchs today regarding MySQL foreign keys, it is marked as fixing issues in https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122437 I wonder if it might also address the problem here. I would give it a try with the latest 6.3 daily build in a

Re: Bug 122675 MySQL native connector problem with LO 6.2.0.2

ew-default-authentication-plugin-caching_sha2_password/ On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 1:11 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > Howdy Dan, > > Some information on the problem and work around can be found here: > https://tableplus.io/blog/2018/07/failed-to-load-caching-sha2-password-authentication-plugin-sol

Re: Bug 122675 MySQL native connector problem with LO 6.2.0.2

Howdy Dan, Some information on the problem and work around can be found here: https://tableplus.io/blog/2018/07/failed-to-load-caching-sha2-password-authentication-plugin-solved.html The issue was opened by another person yesterday and this issue was lined to it. Drew On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at

Re: What does checking the option "Formatted Display" on the Calc Find Toolbar actually do?

Thank you On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 3:50 PM Jan-Marek Glogowski wrote: > Am 30. Dezember 2018 20:57:34 MEZ schrieb Drew Jensen < > drewjensen.in...@gmail.com>: > >Howdy, > > > >Long and the short of this email is the question posed in the subject > >line. >

What does checking the option "Formatted Display" on the Calc Find Toolbar actually do?

Howdy, Long and the short of this email is the question posed in the subject line. Can anyone point to where the answer to that question can be found? Thanks, in advance, for your time and help. Best wishes, Drew ___ LibreOffice mailing list

Re: Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2018-Dec-06

bar makes reasonable sense IMO. I just wanted to make sure to pay attention to the change for the documentation work. On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 11:12 AM Heiko Tietze wrote: > On 06.12.18 15:41, Drew Jensen wrote: > > ... > > My question Is; Will this change in menus to happen in

Re: Minutes from the UX/design meeting 2018-Dec-06

I was just now looking at this using the tabbed notebook interface (though I'm running the 6.3Alpha0 build, so maybe there is some difference there from 6.2) and I see that the different places where the header/footer dialog is available already enables or disables depending on what was selected

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Third dedicated session for bug hunting session on Monday - Base, Access2Base

://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/Wy2PAXqRqgKGEfF Also updated the release notes wiki page for Base and Basic https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.2 Will make a few posts about it. Thanks for your support and I'll see you online tomorrow. Drew On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 3:10 AM Drew Jensen wrote: > Ho

[Libreoffice-qa] Third dedicated session for bug hunting session on Monday - Base, Access2Base

Howdy, Well, I realize this is last minute, but perhaps better late then never in these circumstances. I would like to add another session to the bug hunting session on Monday, from 13:00 to 15:00 UTC. Firebird becomes non experimental / Access2Base picks up full support for Firebird. I would

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Next QA meeting: Oct 30 at 15:00 UTC

Thanks! On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:53 AM Xisco Fauli wrote: > Forgot the link: > > [1] > http://document-foundation-mail-archive.969070.n3.nabble.com/Libreoffice-qa-Request-for-content-to-the-next-monthly-report-td4251302.html > El 30/10/18 a les 15:50, Drew Jensen ha escri

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Next QA meeting: Oct 30 at 15:00 UTC

in detail to see how we should > handle this. > > Regards > El 30/10/18 a les 14:04, Drew Jensen ha escrit: > > Is there an agenda of any kind? > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 7:49 PM Xisco Fauli > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Kindly Reminder: Next QA meet

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Next QA meeting: Oct 30 at 15:00 UTC

Is there an agenda of any kind? On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 7:49 PM Xisco Fauli wrote: > Hello, > > Kindly Reminder: Next QA meeting will take place today Tue, October 30 > at 15:00 UTC in the IRC channel #libreoffice-qa. More information: > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/IRC > > > If you

Re: OpenDocument spec tables row height [was: Writer - row-height, min-row-height and use-optimal-row-height]

For what it's worth as I am no sw expert, I'd say do the commit. It isn't like there is a real chance of an interoperability problem, AFAIK only other implementation is AOO. so... What could possibly go wrong? On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 4:51 PM Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > In the absence of

Re: How to Build LO Eclipse

to check > out this pull request: https://github.com/LibreOffice/loeclipse/pull/68 > > Regards > Samuel > > Am 03.09.2018 um 16:28 schrieb Drew Jensen: > > Howdy Shobhan, > > First, a little embarrassed that I somehow skipped visually what was there > for ins

Re: How to Build LO Eclipse

Howdy Shobhan, First, a little embarrassed that I somehow skipped visually what was there for instructions. Not sure I understand about the python project, that is the only reason I cloned the repository https://github.com/LibreOffice/loeclipse was to pickup the python support. There was no

Re: How to build LO Eclipse.

Drew Jensen wrote: > Howdy, > > Over at https://github.com/LibreOffice/loeclipse > the installation instructions are to use the Eclipse Marketplace. > > Currently the source has been updated from the recent GSOC project to add > python support and I would like to give that a sh

How to build LO Eclipse.

Howdy, Over at https://github.com/LibreOffice/loeclipse the installation instructions are to use the Eclipse Marketplace. Currently the source has been updated from the recent GSOC project to add python support and I would like to give that a shot. Are there any instructions for building the

Re: License information for extensions on LO's extension site

Hola, Just curious if the Templates will also require a license to be eligible for the TDF site. Today: - some don't declare a license on the website page. - some state a license on the website page -- some include a license declaration inside the template file. some of these do so in the

Re: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64 in libmariadb-connector-c - build failure on master, with macOS

Noticed over on the QA IRC channel some talk about Mac and a recent change to the MySQL sdbc code: "Switch from mysql to MariaDB C API" : https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3478d7453a3d65b3d8d164e8f898a0b79f005c58 for the change record. On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:38 AM

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] Question on odd output on first start of lastest Libo 6.2 daily build

OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@70-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2018-06-17_11:17:04 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 3:00 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > Howdy, > > Downloaded the latest 6.2 daily build for

[Libreoffice-qa] Question on odd output on first start of lastest Libo 6.2 daily build

Howdy, Downloaded the latest 6.2 daily build for 64bit Linux, installed under Ubuntu 18.04 (w/gnome default desktop) and on first start got some output to stdout which I'd need before: from here--- Using PPAPI flash. --ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libpepflashplayer.so

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] How it went with one of the files used in last weeks bug hunting session

to be clear, on my typo there in the 3rd frm last line; I could NOT be happier with how that went. On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 9:43 PM Drew Jensen wrote: > Howdy Tamás, list; > > Last weekend during the 6.1 bug hunting session I prattled on, over on the > QA irc channel, about runn

[Libreoffice-qa] How it went with one of the files used in last weeks bug hunting session

Howdy Tamás, list; Last weekend during the 6.1 bug hunting session I prattled on, over on the QA irc channel, about running the base migration assistant against an odb file holding ~318 thousand records in an embedded hsql database. Thought I'd post a recap here, with an added bit from today.

Re: HSQL to Firebird auto migration firebird data types

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 4:25 AM Tamas Bunth <tamas.bu...@collabora.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 03:24:49AM +0000, Drew Jensen wrote: > > Looking at the open issues for the HSQL to Firebird auto migration > > functionality particular the issues regardin

HSQL to Firebird auto migration firebird data types

Hi, Looking at the open issues for the HSQL to Firebird auto migration functionality particular the issues regarding data types and other test files I put together a possible map of what I think makes sense in translating hsql to firebird types. [Read only view of it here

Re: API-CHANGE - dropping string properties which use vnd.sun.star.GraphicObject URL

com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Drew Jensen > <drewjensen.in...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Howdy list, > > > > Reading over this, and sorry if this is a naive question, but I was > > wondering if this could effect the way image cont

Re: API-CHANGE - dropping string properties which use vnd.sun.star.GraphicObject URL

Howdy list, Reading over this, and sorry if this is a naive question, but I was wondering if this could effect the way image controls work in forms and reports. When an imagecontrol on a form (or Report Builder report) is linked to a character field in a data table the control reads a URL from

Re: Database migration in Base

:49 PM, Drew Jensen <drewjensen.in...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 3:33 AM, Bunth Tamás <btom...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> On 10 April 2018 at 15:04, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurg...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>

Re: Database migration in Base

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 3:33 AM, Bunth Tamás wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On 10 April 2018 at 15:04, Alexander Thurgood > wrote: > > Le 10/04/2018 à 12:30, Tamas Bunth a écrit : > > Read through your blog posts, sounds really promising, and I am > >

Re: Database migration in Base

Cool. Grabbed the 6.1alpha daily build just now and there it is as the default. Also grabbed a 6.04 and then the 5.whatever it is that comes out of the Ubuntu repo so I could create fresh hsql embed to open in 6.1. There are a bunch of older odb files on my computer which could feed some tests

Re: [libreoffice-website] Re: Promoting RCs on Facebook

On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 15:34 +0100, Volker Merschmann wrote: Hi Cor, 2012/3/16 Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl: Volker Merschmann wrote (07-03-12 13:59) In the meantime I have found the names of the maintainers: Gerard Jensen, Don Crowley, Nikola Yanev I do not know any of them and they are

Re: [Libreoffice] (no subject)

On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 15:51 +0100, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: Summary, is that we lost 34,000 lines of code since we started to code on LO... Howdy Sebastian, Outstanding - this is a figure we are confident enough in to publish? Sounds like it, but just to be sure..so, this is how I put it out

Re: [Libreoffice] (no subject)

On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 09:04 -0700, Tor Lillqvist wrote: I would be very careful in using that number in any kind of bragging fashion, without very explicitly indicating what it measures, exactly. Of course, hard to do that in a short tweet, and it is bound to be misinterpreted. Right - I

Re: [Libreoffice] Calc usability improvements

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 09:47 -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote: 2) change the polarity of the current dialog so that the user *unchecks* the check box to dismiss future popups of the dialog, or Hi folks, Have been reading along quietly. +1 for that solution. Best wishes, Drew

Re: [Libreoffice] credits page is 403 access forbidden

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 15:39 +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:50:06 +0200, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote: I'ld love to have at least the wiki authors in before making the official page live. Done: http://sspaeth.de/uploads/tmp/index.html :-) No clue how to do a mapping to get