[libreoffice-users] Re: where does LO 5.x config files?

2016-08-03 Thread V Stuart Foote
germane notes from one more earlier ESC meeting... http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/minutes-of-ESC-call-td4142383.html -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/where-does-LO-5-x-config-files-tp4190051p4190061.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at

[libreoffice-users] Re: where does LO 5.x config files?

2016-08-03 Thread V Stuart Foote
No, the /4 path was retained because there was no real reason to change the path, and some good technical reasons for compatibility with exiting user profile and extensions. There were quite a few issues affecting UX during migration from LibreOffice 3.x to 4.x and the impact on extensions. The

Re: [libreoffice-users] where does LO 5.x config files?

2016-08-03 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 12:59:28 -0400 Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > In the .config folder, I see libreoffice folder containing version 4, > but I cannot find ver 5.x.x config files. LibreOffice 5.x uses configuration files of 4.x version. On Unix systems, they

[libreoffice-users] where does LO 5.x config files?

2016-08-03 Thread Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I just installed the DEB 64-bit 5.2.0.x version I had the 5.1.x version installed before it. In the .config folder, I see libreoffice folder containing version 4, but I cannot find ver 5.x.x config files. Where do they now reside in the Ubuntu/DEB system folders? I was checking on some

[libreoffice-users] Seamonkey users - using browser to reach this list

2016-08-03 Thread charles meyer
Hi Folks, I wondered if anyone uses Seamonky to reach this list? If so, do you use the Portable Seamonkey from here... http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/seamonkey_portable I'm trying to use a portable browser on a flash drive to reach this list and thought Seamoneky might be a worthy

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Compatibility of LO Base with Access databases

2016-08-03 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hello, I agree full-heartedly with Alex, but then I have been working with relational DBs ever since my days at IBM (DB2), where I specialised on databases for a while. In fact I happened to get to know one of the fathers of that technology - Chris Date. I have been using OO and LO with a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Compatibility of LO Base with Access databases

2016-08-03 Thread Bruce Hohl
Base and some of its limitations (including enbedded HSQLDB) are well described here: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/FAQ_(Base) The last two times I needed a multi user database accessible over the web I went with a LAMP approach. The *upfront* set up and learning curve was higher but *less*

[libreoffice-users] Re: Compatibility of LO Base with Access databases

2016-08-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 02/08/2016 à 00:23, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Hi Ian, > > *Re: The LO Base discussion* - just my "Penny's Worth"!!! > > The only way I got any (sort of results) was by using MySQL as the > backend but it took a couple of months to get it working and after a few > months even that crashed on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Running two LibreOffice Processes

2016-08-03 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Philipp, I don't know, how embedding and headless work, but I can tell you, how to get two running processes in normal cases on Windows: When a soffice.bin process is started it writes the ~.lock file in the folder which contains the 'user' folder, which contains all the personal

Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility of LO Base with Access databases

2016-08-03 Thread Harvey Nimmo
On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 10:02 +1200, tonybsa wrote: > In defence of LibreOffice Base. > Unlike Ian I have had very good results with Base. > > Over the last 8 years I have used Base as a a "front end" to a MySQL > database in 5 different countries for different projects. > > One database was for

[libreoffice-users] Running two LibreOffice Processes

2016-08-03 Thread Schäfer , Philipp
Hi, we are embedding LibreOffice into an Application using UNO. In order to do that, we start LibreOffice in headless mode. However, this results in a user not being able to use LibreOffice outside of our application. If he tries to open a document, nothing visible happens, because the