Re: Another logo needs updating: Get it here!

2012-10-21 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 21/10/2012 21:18, RGB ES a écrit : CC to Hagar, because he proposed the download logo used on the forums: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?p=238128#p238128 See below for more details [...] Hy, Hagar. There is a discussion on the MLs about a new download button (without

Re: On parks, commons, and websites

2012-07-17 Thread Hagar Delest
This comparison is pure nonsense. Putting something in a trash does not require any specific skill and doesn't call for any discussion about it. Imagine instead that a visitor notices a sign in your park that is showing a wrong direction. First, perhaps there is a reason behind this: should

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Hagar Delest
this. Everyone on this list can do this. All I'm challenging people to do is to make an effort, I don't think I'm expecting a miracle. From: Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:49 PM Subject: Re

Re: spelling

2012-07-15 Thread Hagar Delest
Hi, OP is not registered to the list so added the cc. I also move this to the ooo-user list where it belongs more than the dev list. Please don't reply to the ooo-dev list. Haseler, in addition to the links given by Rory below, you should remove the NZ version of the dictionary extension.

Re: [RELEASE] Next Release - 3.4.2? 3.5? 4.0?

2012-07-15 Thread Hagar Delest
Generally agreeing. So top posting. The problem I see with LTS is that it leads to additional energy put on old releases. In the past, the only choice was to upgrade. Or not, and wait for a release with the blocking bug fixed (in case it prevented the upgrade). It kept the development

Re: Java download link on AOO site

2012-07-14 Thread Hagar Delest
Le sam. 14 juil. 2012 01:25:55 CEST, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net a écrit : BTW - Kay has picked up what the real topic you brought here was, and this is something that is much more for discussion than it is something to simply change. Yes, thanks, I had seen it but completely forgot to

Re: Java download link on AOO site

2012-07-13 Thread Hagar Delest
Le ven. 13 juil. 2012 07:01:58 CEST, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com a écrit : The biggest problem with this project is the prevalence of people who are unskilled in the codebase occupying all the oxygen on the dev list. This list, unlike the forums, is about project development, and

Re: Java download link on AOO site

2012-07-12 Thread Hagar Delest
Le jeu. 12 juil. 2012 00:39:17 CEST, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com a écrit : Why does Hagar need an agent to carry this out? Isn't Hagar a committer and therefore can't he edit the page himself with the CMS? JFDI Hagar. This does not need discussion unless you require more

Re: Java download link on AOO site

2012-07-12 Thread Hagar Delest
Le jeu. 12 juil. 2012 21:19:50 CEST, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com a écrit : On 2012-07-12 1:06 PM Joe Schaefer wrote: 1) No it's not a requirement that you be a committer to be on the PPMC. Then it was for the Roller blog account I guess. 2) What sort of example do you hope to

Java download link on AOO site

2012-07-11 Thread Hagar Delest
It has been noticed by a forum user that the download link to Java points to the 1.7 version (Get the most recent Java (JRE): http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp ). We should point to a 1.6 version to avoid problems with Java 1.7 and AOO: http://java.com/en/download/manual_v6.jsp Link is

Re: Terms of Service on Forums

2012-07-04 Thread Hagar Delest
Le mer. 04 juil. 2012 04:44:19 CEST, drew d...@baseanswers.com a écrit : Yes - it goes to the page on the website - a page I tried to get people to look at for fixup months ago - but there was no interest in doing so at the time, and yes as it stands it is just wrong. Weird, after that

Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] proposal to activate the update service for OOo 3.2 and OOo 3.2.1

2012-07-04 Thread Hagar Delest
Le mer. 04 juil. 2012 05:29:19 CEST, Ariel Constenla-Haile arie...@apache.org a écrit : There is obviously a bug with the registrymodifications.xcu that should be fixed somehow. https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=120086 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=120068

Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] proposal to activate the update service for OOo 3.2 and OOo 3.2.1

2012-06-30 Thread Hagar Delest
Le ven. 29 juin 2012 02:36:38 CEST, TJ Frazier tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com a écrit : Is it really necessary to delete the whole User folder, or is it enough to delete the registrymodifications.xcu file in that folder? AFAIK, the user will lose only the recent documents entries for the item on the

Re: Frequent crashes when opening files with AOO 3.4.0?

2012-06-30 Thread Hagar Delest
Le sam. 23 juin 2012 00:10:10 CEST, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net a écrit : Le ven. 22 juin 2012 23:26:33 CEST, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie a écrit : For testing purposes and upload could you not change every character to x (I remember a regular expression in the Forum to do

Re: Frequent crashes when opening files with AOO 3.4.0?

2012-06-30 Thread Hagar Delest
Le sam. 23 juin 2012 00:06:40 CEST, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de a écrit : There were some reports and I had the problem too. In all cases the problem was solved by removing the file registrymodifications.xcu, which then will be recreated with the next AOO start. But you have

Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] proposal to activate the update service for OOo 3.2 and OOo 3.2.1

2012-06-28 Thread Hagar Delest
Le jeu. 28 juin 2012 11:27:54 CEST, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com a écrit : On 27.06.2012 14:58, Rob Weir wrote: But one question: Has anyone actually tested the upgrade experience from OOo 3.2 to AOO 3.4? As far as I know, it was not tested yet. But, I think we need to

Re: Language moduls

2012-06-25 Thread Hagar Delest
Hi, There is a problem with one of the dictionaries bundled with AOO. You have to disable or remove the New Zealand flavor in the extension manager (then restart AOO). See http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7t=54595 Hagar Le lun. 25 juin 2012 21:58:54 CEST, Thomas

Frequent crashes when opening files with AOO 3.4.0?

2012-06-22 Thread Hagar Delest
I've been facing some weird behavior rather recently (since last week perhaps) on my Vista system with AOO 3.4.0. No OS udpdate that I know of (corporate machine, important updates have to be run manually, some patches applied live but we usually see the script that installs them and it has

Re: Frequent crashes when opening files with AOO 3.4.0?

2012-06-22 Thread Hagar Delest
Le ven. 22 juin 2012 23:26:33 CEST, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie a écrit : For testing purposes and upload could you not change every character to x (I remember a regular expression in the Forum to do that) and replace all photos with something non private? No time yet for such testing,

Re: [RELEASE][3.4.1]: Include only one en-US dictionary extension

2012-06-19 Thread Hagar Delest
Le mar. 19 juin 2012 12:25:28 CEST, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com a écrit : 2012/6/19 Ariel Constenla-Haile arie...@apache.org: As this bug has its root in the dictionary extensions, the only thing we can do to fix it is just provide only one extension, in this case dict-en.oxt. +1 for just one

Re: official logos ???

2012-06-18 Thread Hagar Delest
Le lun. 18 juin 2012 00:54:08 CEST, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org a écrit : On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: I don't see any clear direction for the logos. Can you be more specific? What do you think needs clarification? Current branding is a mix

Re: *DRAFT FINAL* June board report

2012-06-06 Thread Hagar Delest
Sorry I'm late, here are 2 points maybe worth adding: - Spam has been completely eradicated from community English forum with new counter measures (new users moderation and new moderators). - A new root admin (imacat) has been promoted and is now taking the job to insure smooth running and

Re: [WWW]Forums branding

2012-06-03 Thread Hagar Delest
For the record, I've sent a similar message to the marketing list. But it needs to be approved since I'm not subscribed to the marketing list. Hagar Le dim. 03 juin 2012 22:03:25 CEST, drew d...@baseanswers.com a écrit : On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 21:54 +0200, RGB ES wrote: Not sure if this

Re: [WWW] XRay 6.0 is available

2012-06-01 Thread Hagar Delest
Note that it has not been translated in English yet. Bernard said on the forum that it should be done this weekend. Hagar Le ven. 01 juin 2012 17:32:23 CEST, drew d...@baseanswers.com a écrit : On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 11:26 -0400, drew wrote: On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 16:32 +0200, FR web forum

Re: Wiki, Forum Host Names

2012-05-29 Thread Hagar Delest
Le mar. 29 mai 2012 12:36:29 CEST, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com a écrit : 2012/5/29 imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw: 3. wiki,openoffice.org forum.openoffice.org IF (and only IF) a proper redirection for the old addresses is maintained, I think option 3 is the best one. We need to remember

Re: AOO 3.4 downloads by language and country

2012-05-28 Thread Hagar Delest
Le dim. 27 mai 2012 03:13:51 CEST, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org a écrit : ===en-US=== United States,362076 United Kingdom,67711 Canada,39174 India,29516 Australia,24010 Sweden,11607 Romania,11340 Poland,10692 Indonesia,9264 Germany,8970 Strange, there is no download from France for the en-US

Re: AOO 3.4 downloads by language and country

2012-05-28 Thread Hagar Delest
My bad! Have been misled by some entries with just 2 downloads but still in the top 10 of the related flavor. Thanks for the reminder. Hagar Le lun. 28 mai 2012 15:45:34 CEST, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org a écrit : On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote

Re: [4.0 brainstorming] Making Page Breaks more visible

2012-05-12 Thread Hagar Delest
+1. Seems very logical indeed. The Page break label should be visible somewhere in line with the PB location. Do you mean it should be in the margin? A hot spot that opens the attributes by double-click would improve th user experience to change page numbers, page styles, ... Hagar Le sam. 12

Re: [WWW] AOOo french website

2012-05-11 Thread Hagar Delest
Le ven. 11 mai 2012 20:06:45 CEST, FR web forum ooofo...@free.fr a écrit : Do you see them mentionned on the banneer ? LINK : http://user.services.openoffice.org/fr/forum/ And what so? This is not a fact. We have mentioned only the main product for lenght string reason. Unable to write all

Re: [WWW] AOOo french website

2012-05-11 Thread Hagar Delest
Le sam. 12 mai 2012 00:07:35 CEST, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org a écrit : I would suggest: User community support forum for Apache OpenOffice and all the OpenOffice.org derivatives There's no need to favor any particular fork. This was my first proposal but we can't obliterate the fact

Re: [ML] Please state that the mail was approved and that the author is not subscribed to the ML

2012-05-09 Thread Hagar Delest
Le Wed, 9 May 2012 00:53:37 +0100, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com a écrit : Look for a header saying: Delivered-To: moderator for ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org or Delivered-To: moderator for ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org Messages with that header have been moderated and

Re: [PROPOSAL]: Apache OpenOffice Next-Gen logo...

2012-05-09 Thread Hagar Delest
Thanks for opening the discussion about that Michael. But I don't like the proposal neither. The square shape is old fashioned IMHO. The S curve cuts the icon and it reduces its visibility. The orb with a more light blue brought a fresh look when it appeared with 3.2.1. There was a clear

Re: Is there a AOO repo for ubuntu?

2012-05-03 Thread Hagar Delest
Le Wed, 2 May 2012 19:30:22 -0300, Albino Biasutti Neto biasut...@gmail.com a écrit : 2012/5/2 Wolf Haltonwolf.hal...@gmail.com Well I have both LO and AOO running simultaneously on my system right now. Should be interesting. Good! How? You used command dpkg -i --force-all *.deb No

Re: Is there a AOO repo for ubuntu?

2012-05-02 Thread Hagar Delest
Le Wed, 2 May 2012 16:37:07 -0300, Albino Biasutti Neto biasut...@gmail.com a écrit : Problems can occur in conflict with the libo about the desktop-integration. To install use: dpkg -i --force-all *deb I did an article in pt-br in blog WP (was in Escritório Livre [1]) : http://va.mu/UysG

Re: Response to spam on the user forum

2012-04-23 Thread Hagar Delest
Just some figures: There was more than 1800 spam posts Sunday evening (few online mods this day - like me - I guess). The top posters had about 135 posts then 70 (single accounts). IP seems to be in Bangladesh. Almost 200 accounts have been banned in 3 days (from Apr. 19to Apr. 22). I've set a

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating) RC1

2012-04-21 Thread Hagar Delest
+1 (PPMC) NB: installed the 64bit DEB on Ubuntu 11.10, no problem for the moment. Thanks for this code release! Hagar Le Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:58:24 +0800, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com a écrit : Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache

Re: Linux builds follow up on Ubuntu 11.10 failures

2012-04-09 Thread Hagar Delest
Le Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:38:06 +0200, Mechtilde o...@mechtilde.de a écrit : there are twoe ways to solve it: Either you deinstall the version of your distribution (here: Ubuntu) completely Or you don't install the desktop-integration and do it manually. If you install a software beside your

Re: DicOOo Wizard ?? (+en_GB dictionary) (was Re: [RELEASE]: status update and plan)

2012-04-04 Thread Hagar Delest
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries Hmm.. according to that page there was once a DicOOo wizard! Anyone knows anything about it? Sounds like something we may want to resurrect. Well, this was a text document with a macro. It made the user select a language and it would

Re: [PROPOSAL] AOO logo rebranding...

2012-04-01 Thread Hagar Delest
AOO_orb1_logo_webSite.jpg Hagar We're getting very close to a 3.4 launch, and the time has come to move forward with a logo rebranidng for at least the user portal web site, http://www.openoffice.org, and possibly the project web site as well, http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/.

Re: Uk gov open standards consultation and odf

2012-03-30 Thread Hagar Delest
Thanks for the pointer. Done on the English forum: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49t=49691 Hagar It seems Microsoft is lobbying the UK Cabinet office for OOXML in place of odf

Re: [RELEASE] Dictionary extensions

2012-03-29 Thread Hagar Delest
On 3/29/12 11:13 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: It is worth noting that a frequent question from users is how to remove unwanted preinstalled dictionaries. In a future release perhaps a modification of the install process might allow selection of dictionaries at install time. I suspect, but do

Re: Reminder: Not all list posts are from list subscribers

2012-03-25 Thread Hagar Delest
Indeed - for folks who use Thunderbird (like I do), I posted instructions on how to setup mail filters based on headers. http://markmail.org/message/katmtejfsx5xomvo Given the broad reach (both users and developers) and new community around AOO, it would be awesome to post a page on the

Re: Files replaced by hashes, let's face it

2012-03-13 Thread Hagar Delest
Le Tue, 13 Mar 2012 05:38:51 +0100, eric b eric.bach...@free.fr a écrit : Until we find a track, the most important is to collect as much of datas as possible. There is certainly one common denominator for a big part of those issues imho, but the area of investigations is enormous. There

Files replaced by hashes, let's face it

2012-03-12 Thread Hagar Delest
Hi All, We have had a recent discussion in the forum (after another case) about the problem where files are replaced with only hashes, leading to serious data loss. Is there any plan to handle it or at least to double check the save process? For the record: usually after a power loss, the

Roller account request

2012-03-11 Thread Hagar Delest
Hi, Is it possible to get a Roller account to have author/editor access to the Apache OpenOffice Blog? I could then post about forum activity. ASF id (hagar) is fine. Thanks in advance. NB: followed the PPMC FAQ for that but the link saying to contact infra doesn't really help. Hagar

Re: Roller account request

2012-03-11 Thread Hagar Delest
Thanks, done. Hagar -Original Message- From: Hagar Delest [mailto:hagar.del...@laposte.net] Sent: Sunday, 11 March 2012 9:22 PM To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Roller account request Hi, Is it possible to get a Roller account to have author/editor access to the Apache

Re: Ubuntu 11.10 32-bit -- full install

2012-03-01 Thread Hagar Delest
Usually, there are problems when installing OOo/AOO with the default installed LibO from Ubuntu. Installing the vanilla version for LibO should take care of it. If no English spell check, go to ToolsOptionsLanguage SettingsWriting Aids, uncheck and recheck the Hunspell option:

Re: Apache OpenOffice Extensions Website restored at SourceForge

2012-02-26 Thread Hagar Delest
Le dim. 26 févr. 2012 19:04:08 CET, RGB ES a écrit : - Hagar Delest changed existing links into aoo-extensions.sf.net but I'm not sure this is right: I think it is the same stuation we have for the forum, where we have a *.apache.org URL and user.services.openoffice.org but we (at least I do

Re: Document Recovery

2012-02-16 Thread Hagar Delest
Le jeu. 16 févr. 2012 20:36:07 CET, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net a écrit : Le mer. 15 févr. 2012 23:13:37 CET, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de a écrit : When you have problems with document recovery please edit the following file and delete the respective items for the affected

Re: Document Recovery

2012-02-15 Thread Hagar Delest
Le mer. 15 févr. 2012 23:13:37 CET, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de a écrit : When you have problems with document recovery please edit the following file and delete the respective items for the affected files (may differ on Windows):

Re: EN Forum Activity Summary

2012-01-08 Thread Hagar Delest
Since the post has been reviewed by some other Volunteers, the initial signature at the end of the text seems fine: Hagar Delest, On the behalf of the Forum Volunteers Hagar Le dim. 08 janv. 2012 17:40:06 CET, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org a écrit : On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Hagar

Re: EN Forum Activity Summary

2012-01-07 Thread Hagar Delest
Le ven. 06 janv. 2012 20:21:28 CET, drew d...@baseanswers.com a écrit : Second - I really would like to see you actually publish to the blog on your own. I know that you have made a practice to put stats such as this to the forum a few times a year, I like the usual attending graph. I know it

Re: EN Forum Activity Summary

2012-01-07 Thread Hagar Delest
(the last approval was in April). Total is nearly 100 now. To conclude, the constant dedication of the Volunteers shows that they are still eager to help users through the forum. We are now waiting for the next release of Apache OpenOffice for a new bunch of questions and users... Hagar Delest

Re: EN Forum Activity Summary

2012-01-02 Thread Hagar Delest
of of EN forum activity from the launch date to the present has been posted by Hagar Delest. I invite those interested in this measure of user activity to take a look at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50t=46497. A graph shows the number of posts, registered members, topics

Re: [VOTE] Trademark and Brand

2011-11-11 Thread Hagar Delest
Le mer. 09 nov. 2011 19:47:22 CET, Donald Harbison dpharbi...@gmail.com a écrit : As promised, here's the ballot. Choose one, cast your vote. If none of them get more than 50% of the binding votes, we will start a ballot for the top two contenders. a) Apache OpenOffice.org +1. We should not

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-07 Thread Hagar Delest
Le mar. 06 sept. 2011 17:36:10 CEST, eric b eric.bach...@free.fr a écrit : No, Hagar introduced his pseudo, not himself. I wonder how we can trust people we don't know the identity ? Regards, Eric First note that I'm not a PPMC or haven't any other role for the moment in ASF. The key

Re: Proposal: Forum integration

2011-09-07 Thread Hagar Delest
Le mar. 06 sept. 2011 15:13:02 CEST, drew d...@baseanswers.com a écrit : On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 14:56 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:45 PM, drewd...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 14:28 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:19 PM,

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Hagar Delest
Le mar. 06 sept. 2011 07:10:03 CEST, Pedro Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com a écrit : On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:52:27 +0200, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: Well, Rob, you finally did it. I hope you are happy. I'm not. Even if someone else can work the miracle and get the migration done (I doubt it),

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-05 Thread Hagar Delest
Hi All, Back from some vacation, I'd a bunch of mail to read here... Rob, are you paid to sabotage the move of the forums? Sorry but I was very reluctant to engage here because of all the negative message you try to insinuate about the Volunteers of the forums and how they handle the forums.

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-05 Thread Hagar Delest
I guess it's for me. I'd like to keep my real life separated from my OOo activity. But the forum admins know it. Hagar Le mar. 06 sept. 2011 00:23:45 CEST, eric b eric.bach...@free.fr a écrit : Hi, Just curious: what is your real name ? Regards, Eric Bachard