Re: [libreoffice-users] a step in the right direction

2014-07-22 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Even if it doesn't do anything else, at least it might force Microsoft into adding proper support for ODF into Office... ;-) On 22/07/14 23:21, Tim Lloyd wrote: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs the link says it all. Let's hope this trend co

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [libreoffice-users] Bug Squashing Session in 90 Minutes

2014-07-22 Thread Zeki Bildirici
Hi, 22 Tem 2014 18:22 tarihinde "Joel Madero" yazdı: > > Yeah bug count is currently sitting at 742 which is the lowest it has > been in for over 2 years. With a push this week I think we can drop it > to 700 :) Maybe the 500 goal wasn't so outlandish after all > Tweeting from @LibreOfficeBugs acc

[libreoffice-users] a step in the right direction

2014-07-22 Thread Tim Lloyd
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs the link says it all. Let's hope this trend continues -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Small bug(?) when loading file into Writer

2014-07-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Jon Harringdon wrote: (Aside: in fact, I looked into putting this through the LO bug reporting system. However, after a few quick glances I was left with the impression that the system seemed designed to actually keep non-IT people from posting bugs than to support them in doing so.) The full-f

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: File corruption on OSX and LO 4252

2014-07-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Owen Genat wrote: Alex Thurgood wrote ... file corruption when writing to an external disk drive. ... I have an external FAT formatted LaCie hard drive to store my files on. ... I was working from a USB external hard disk. First question which occurs to me - Have you had problems with other d

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This is all pretty fantastic! Congrats to anyone involved. Please can we just drop all the threads that have an Urmas in them? Just ignore the obvious FUD and avoid engaging. If doing a migration with any kind of assessment of hardware requirements or with any advice from almost anyone fa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can a Pattern Field Edit Mask be variable length?

2014-07-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm guessing it's not as simple as using a wild-card character such as * or better a ? Can you even use wildcards there and if so would it be a security risk allowing a tiny injection of code? Regards from Tom :) On 22 July 2014 06:01, Marion & Noel Lodge wrote: > I have a database For

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] [libreoffice-users] Bug Squashing Session in 90 Minutes

2014-07-22 Thread Joel Madero
Yeah bug count is currently sitting at 742 which is the lowest it has been in for over 2 years. With a push this week I think we can drop it to 700 :) Maybe the 500 goal wasn't so outlandish after all Best, Joel On 07/22/2014 08:12 AM, Tommy wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:06:01 +0200, Tommy w

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-22 Thread Urmas
"Jim Seymour": Nobody ever does that with commercial software, Vendors of commercial software control their partners. If there was nothing fishy we would have detailed reports, case studies and, which is more important, a comparison of costs of the chosen solution and competitors ones. Here

Re: [libreoffice-users] Small bug(?) when loading file into Writer

2014-07-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It is overwhelmingly complicated when you first look at it! Luckily most of that stuff is for the devs or QA Team. So you really kinda ignore all the drop-downs and stuff and just focus on the bit that looks like posting an email = the subject-line and then the message-box under it. It is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Small bug(?) when loading file into Writer

2014-07-22 Thread Jon Harringdon
Thanks for confirming. It's not really a big deal but it left me wondering whether I'd done something wrong as it had taken me a while to get this to work in the first place. (Aside: in fact, I looked into putting this through the LO bug reporting system. However, after a few quick glances I was l

Re: [libreoffice-users] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-22 Thread Anivar Aravind
On 22 Jul 2014 16:57, "William Gathoye" wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Anivar! > > On 07/17/2014 10:28 AM, Anivar Aravind wrote: > > See below poster . > > > > https://www.facebook.com/SMC.Project/posts/751600641550557 > > Do you know if LibreOffice could use thi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-22 Thread Jim Seymour
On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:44:39 +0700 "Urmas" wrote: > "Jim Seymour": > > > How do you get embezzlement of funds out of a story about a > > government body switching to open standards? > > By buying new computers from the suppliers giving the best kickbacks > and dumping the astronomic sums of mon

Re: [libreoffice-users] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-22 Thread William Gathoye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Anivar! On 07/17/2014 10:28 AM, Anivar Aravind wrote: > See below poster . > > https://www.facebook.com/SMC.Project/posts/751600641550557 Do you know if LibreOffice could use this picture for the LOWN report [1]? Either an authorization or a lice

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-22 Thread Urmas
"Jim Seymour": How do you get embezzlement of funds out of a story about a government body switching to open standards? By buying new computers from the suppliers giving the best kickbacks and dumping the astronomic sums of money into 'open source implementation' subcontractors, ending up wi

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Lao Open Source Training on LibreOffice

2014-07-22 Thread William Gathoye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Anousak! First of all congratulations! On 07/18/2014 12:03 PM, Anousak Souphavanh wrote: > Attached are photos of the training. As the mailing list and the nabble platform are both trimming of attachments, could you upload the aforementioned pict

Re: [libreoffice-users] Small bug(?) when loading file into Writer

2014-07-22 Thread Niklas Johansson
Hi Jon It is a small bug that seems to have crept in between the 4.1 series and the 4.2 series. I'm trying to track down the exact commit at the moment. Let's hope I can understand what has gone wrong and fix it. Otherwise I'll open a bug (I did not find any bug reported in bugzilla). /Niklas ti