Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Trivia Question - Further Observation

2011-05-28 Thread timi
Thanks Alex Appreciate your thoughts.. Does that mean I have to buy special support to correct bugs in a released version of LibO? If then you might as well cut the hype about open system and charge licence fee's like MS at least then we might get an Impress that basically works.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-05-28 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hi Alex, I just installed 3.4rc2 and also deleted the cache subdirectory before installation. Same result... And - by the way - it all works fine under M$-Vista. Not particularly recommendable when trying to use Open Software... Regards (from rainy Salzburg!) Heinrich On Fri, 27 May 2011

[libreoffice-users] Missing Create folder option in KDE Save file dialogue

2011-05-28 Thread Harald Bregel
I have come from OpenOffice under SUSE Linux 11.3 and KDE 4, and am now using libreOffice in the same environment. The OpenOffice Save file dialogue in KDE-style showed an icon to create a new folder if needed. This icon is now gone under libreOffice. I have found that I can configure libreOffice

[libreoffice-users] Re: Missing Create folder option in KDE Save file dialogue

2011-05-28 Thread John King
Harald Bregel wrote: I have come from OpenOffice under SUSE Linux 11.3 and KDE 4, and am now using libreOffice in the same environment. The OpenOffice Save file dialogue in KDE-style showed an icon to create a new folder if needed. This icon is now gone under libreOffice. I have found that

[libreoffice-users] I have to ask (four qustions)

2011-05-28 Thread Nuzhna Pomoshch
Using LibreOffice 3.3.1 (Linux). 1. Why is the default column width in Calc 2.27 cm? Where does that number come from? How do I change it? I haven't used Excel in years, but I believe that is easy to set in the options. Even resetting the column width in the default style doesn't change the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/5/28 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com: On 05/27/2011 06:27 PM, plino wrote: Are you aware that, at least in Win. that you can move between documents using Alt+tab? I find that much faster than trying to use a mouse. If you have a bunch of tasks running

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-05-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is MySql owned by Oracle? Are there other sql databases that could be used if a problem developed there? Regards from Tom :) From: Heinrich Stoellinger hc.stoellin...@aon.at To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 28 May, 2011 9:20:27 Subject: Re:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Missing Create folder option in KDE Save file dialogue

2011-05-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There's no problem with Gnome rather than KDE but for Gnome DE there are 2 packages for greater integration with the DE libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-gnome I couldn't find the equivalent for KDE through my package manager but i'm sure there is something like that. It's probably not the

[libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread eresus
I strongly back up this request. I created a bug requesting this feature on 2011-05-12 . https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37134 It's very helpful when you write a paper or an article and have to deal with 5-15 reference/source texts at once. Without tabs you are simply lost... As

[libreoffice-users] Workflow / vector graphics to LO / Impress

2011-05-28 Thread Ilja Gerhardt
Hi LO users - I have a naive question how you guys achieve the most efficient way to transfer vector graphics from other programs to LibreOffice (mostly Impress in my case). I work quite a bit cross-platform in a mixed Linux/ Windoze environment. The main question is how to keep a maximum of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread Tom Davies
From: eresus ere...@o2.pl To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 28 May, 2011 16:03:47 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word? I strongly back up this request. I created a bug requesting this feature on 2011-05-12 .

[libreoffice-users] downstream bug-reports against OOo

2011-05-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There are Ubuntu bug-reports filed against OpenOffice that don't seem to be linked to upstream LibreOffice bug-reports. I guess this has happened in other distros too. For example this one about dragging single cells around in Calc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) How did Lotus WordPro organise it? Did they have the tabs vertically down the side? Presumably that was pre-widescreen so it would have been less of an issue. Regards from Tom :) From: Roland Hughes rol...@logikalsolutions.com To:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread Roland Hughes
Lotus had tabs down the right side of each document you were currently working on. These were tabbed document divisions. You could not only dynamically go to a document division by clicking on the tab, you could right click on it and get a menu for changing order and such. Completely

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Missing Create folder option in KDE Save file dialogue

2011-05-28 Thread Roland Hughes
Many things had problems. KDE-4 changed the underlying calls. Several KUbuntu versions 10.4 and 10.10 have had significant issues. They tweaked many KDE integration packages, but, probably didn't ship them back upstream. On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 10:17 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Missing Create folder option in KDE Save file dialogue

2011-05-28 Thread John King
webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 05/28/2011 06:08 AM, John King wrote: Harald Bregel wrote: I have come from OpenOffice under SUSE Linux 11.3 and KDE 4, and am now using libreOffice in the same environment. The OpenOffice Save file dialogue in KDE-style showed an icon to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Missing Create folder option in KDE Save file dialogue

2011-05-28 Thread Roland Hughes
It's a problem with the KDE integration package. KDE-4 was a God-like-non-compatible move from KDE-3, despite the KDE-3 compatibility libraries. The type and number of parameters for the dialog changed. This got patched over in the KUbuntu world, but, obviously not sent back up the pipeline.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Native MySQL-connection

2011-05-28 Thread Roland Hughes
MySQL is NOT owned by Oracle. InnoDB, the only relational engine supported/used by MySQL IS owned by Oracle and Oracle has been in the process of removing it from free releases of MySQL. If you want a REAL database, you install PostgreSQL. This is a really database though and requires a bit of

[libreoffice-users] Re: Workflow / vector graphics to LO / Impress

2011-05-28 Thread NoOp
On 05/28/2011 08:40 AM, Ilja Gerhardt wrote: ... = when I am totally desperate, I save the file as a bitmap and have it as a 'never-change-again' object in my presentation That's about your only real option. SVG is being worked on, but currently is pretty much borked. See:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Workflow / vector graphics to LO / Impress

2011-05-28 Thread Ilja Gerhardt
Hi NoOp - sure, I know that the SVG import is halfway there. The question was about 'more robust' import formats. It seems that the ODG exporter of inkscape is also not working and PDF was also quite a disappointment. Maybe other people have a better workflow, not relying on the SVG import, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Workflow / vector graphics to LO / Impress

2011-05-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think svg is the best even tho it's not perfect right now. Perhaps miss out on using inkscape and just create things in Draw instead? I haven't tried either but i would guess that Draw is more compatible with Impress. Actually Impress seems to be fairly broken right now but hopefully

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I thought it's just for fancy desktops like spinning cubes with movies playing on all sides and wobbly windows and stuff like that. Regards from Tom :) From: Roland Hughes rol...@logikalsolutions.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 28 May, 2011

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Workflow / vector graphics to LO / Impress

2011-05-28 Thread Ilja Gerhardt
Hi Tom - well, the issue is to include scientific graphs etc. from other programs (plots, CAD, etc.) - the way to inkscape is quite straight forward. But then from there further to LO is a pain (as described). Maybe other people have similar issues and found a better way than 'try'n'error' as I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I use 2 old crt's rather than flat-screens or at work the flat-screens are fairly old and have really old, bad graphics cards or gpus. So fancy features tend to be turned off or right down low. I can just about get wobbly windows but the cube and stuff eludes me :) Regards from Tom :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread Tom Davies
From: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 28 May, 2011 12:22:49 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word? 2011/5/28 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: upgrade path?

2011-05-28 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
On 05/28/2011 10:21 AM, Twayne wrote: In news:308716.4509...@web24103.mail.ird.yahoo.com, Tom Daviestomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk typed: From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 26 May, 2011 2:15:32

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I tried it in 3.3.2 and it works but it's very rough. Tabs are listed as window 1, window 2 and so on rather than using the file-name. Ctrl Tab doesn't move to the next tab but Ctrl W does close just the currently open tab leaving the rest open. Regards from Tom :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread planas
Hi On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 13:49 -0500, Roland Hughes wrote: It is turned on by default in both the latest releases of Ubuntu and OpenSuSE. It is a bug ridden piece of doo-doo which hoses all mouse pointer changes making most new distros unusable by AARP members and people with poor vision.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Workflow / vector graphics to LO / Impress

2011-05-28 Thread planas
Hi, On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 11:56 -0700, Ilja Gerhardt wrote: Hi Tom - well, the issue is to include scientific graphs etc. from other programs (plots, CAD, etc.) - the way to inkscape is quite straight forward. But then from there further to LO is a pain (as described). Maybe other people

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Missing Create folder option in KDE Save file dialogue

2011-05-28 Thread planas
Hi On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 18:31 +0100, John King wrote: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: On 05/28/2011 06:08 AM, John King wrote: Harald Bregel wrote: I have come from OpenOffice under SUSE Linux 11.3 and KDE 4, and am now using libreOffice in the same environment.

Re: [libreoffice-users] I have to ask (four qustions)

2011-05-28 Thread planas
On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 03:36 -0700, Nuzhna Pomoshch wrote: Using LibreOffice 3.3.1 (Linux). 1. Why is the default column width in Calc 2.27 cm? Where does that number come from? How do I change it? I haven't used Excel in years, but I believe that is easy to set in the options. Even

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread Roland Hughes
On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 17:09 -0400, planas wrote: Hi On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 13:49 -0500, Roland Hughes wrote: It is turned on by default in both the latest releases of Ubuntu and OpenSuSE. It is a bug ridden piece of doo-doo which hoses all mouse pointer changes making most new distros

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread Tom Davies
Yes, i saw the warning and then completely ignored it and tried it anyway. It worked! Ubuntu 10.04, LO 3.3.2 and i have opened and closed Writer and Calc quite a few times since then. It still works. Regards from Tom :) From: webmaster for Kracked Press

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default Paper size

2011-05-28 Thread planas
On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 22:48 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Did you ever get an answer for this? Many apologies if this got missed. As far as i know Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Print Actually Format Page then click on the Page tab to set the page size for a specific document.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Default Paper size

2011-05-28 Thread Tom Davies
Yep Format - Page - Page From: planas jsloz...@gmail.com To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 28 May, 2011 23:28:03 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Default Paper size On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 22:48 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Did you ever get an answer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/5/28 Roland Hughes rol...@logikalsolutions.com: It is turned on by default in both the latest releases of Ubuntu and OpenSuSE.  It is a bug ridden piece of doo-doo which hoses all mouse pointer changes making most new distros unusable by AARP members and people with poor vision.  It will

Re: [libreoffice-users] Missing Create folder option in KDE Save file dialogue

2011-05-28 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 28/05/11 20:16, Harald Bregel wrote: I have come from OpenOffice under SUSE Linux 11.3 and KDE 4, and am now using libreOffice in the same environment. The OpenOffice Save file dialogue in KDE-style showed an icon to create a new folder if needed. This icon is now gone under

Re: [libreoffice-users] I have to ask (four qustions)

2011-05-28 Thread Gene Young
On 5/28/2011 5:56 PM, planas wrote: I have no idea why that size was chosen but you can change by FORMATCOLUMNCOLUMN WIDTH A dialog box should open and you change the value to what you want to use. For it to be the default make sure the check box Default Value is checked. Checking the Default

Re: [libreoffice-users] I have to ask (four qustions)

2011-05-28 Thread planas
Hi On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 20:10 -0400, Gene Young wrote: On 5/28/2011 5:56 PM, planas wrote: I have no idea why that size was chosen but you can change by FORMATCOLUMNCOLUMN WIDTH A dialog box should open and you change the value to what you want to use. For it to be the default make sure

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: tabs in LibreOffice - like you can do for MS-Word?

2011-05-28 Thread Roland Hughes
The only 4 people in the world that like Compiz are the people who wrote Compiz. It serves absolutely NO useful purpose, yet continually trashes both systems and screens. In OpenSuSE 11.4, just try changing your mouse pointer size. Same thing in last 2 Ubuntu. There are THOUSANDS of other bugs