Re: [users] Endnote 9 and writer

2010-10-28 Thread Mathias Bauer
version. Don't they tell on their website? Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Oracle: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor...@gmx.de. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Re: Paste Unformatted Text option

2010-03-24 Thread Mathias Bauer
that was requested by Mac users), but as always it can be changed to your liking. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor...@gmx.de. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely

Re: [users] Odd behaviour using Ubuntu distribution

2009-11-27 Thread Mathias Bauer
packaging it. Any ideas? That's a go-oo.org feature that we didn't want to take over. IMHO it's not only disconcerting, it's wrong. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply

Re: [users] UI work (Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance)

2009-09-07 Thread Mathias Bauer
M Henri Day wrote: 2009/9/6 Mathias Bauer nospamfor...@gmx.de Lars Nooden wrote: Stop fucking around. EOD for me. All your contributions to this discussion where full of allegations, insinuations and now insults. Not my style. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead

Re: [users] UI work (Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance)

2009-09-06 Thread Mathias Bauer
Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Lars, Lars Nooden wrote (4-9-2009 14:52) It is even more so to pretend that calling the ribbon by another name will make everything ok. If you mean this text by Matthias: Mathias Bauer wrote (3-9-2009 10:34) Dotan Cohen wrote: What exactly are the arguments

Re: [users] UI work (Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance)

2009-09-06 Thread Mathias Bauer
Lars Nooden wrote: Stop fucking around. EOD for me. All your contributions to this discussion where full of allegations, insinuations and now insults. Not my style. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http

Re: [users] UI work (Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance)

2009-09-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Lars Nooden wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: I can even imagine a much simpler approach: just keep the old UI as an option and use usage tracking to find out how many users switch to it. Studies for the courts found in 1996 that even back then 60% kept the default settings. By now it's close

Re: [users] Re: Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
. They are observed interviewed to find what comes easily and what doesn't. The results are used to improve the software's UI. I have usually found them very useful. Uwe already has answered that. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
i don't need it and despite your good intention it will not help my work but only disturb it. If you have read my first mail, you should know that this is my suggestion also. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http

Re: [users] Re: Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor...@gmx.de. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
it's different and so urges them to re-learn. These complaints can be addressed easily by keeping the old GUI as an option. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-02 Thread Mathias Bauer
what I am. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor...@gmx.de. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-02 Thread Mathias Bauer
Lars Nooden wrote: Thanks, Mathias, Mathias Bauer wrote: What we are trying to achieve is a context sensitive user interface. Which if done less than perfectly is a fancy way of saying 'confusing' and 'complex' ;) Well, perfection most probably won't be reached ever, but I agree

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-02 Thread Mathias Bauer
thousand words. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor...@gmx.de. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Petition against OOo Renaissance

2009-09-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
to plan for this. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor...@gmx.de. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Re: problem opening a unix file: no nl to cr/nl conversion

2009-07-23 Thread Mathias Bauer
william drescher wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: william drescher wrote: Usually when I open a unix file I am given a window that asks how to handle it. Now I am trying to open a unix file and don't get that window so the nl - cr/nl translation is not done and it is not formatted

Re: [users] problem opening a unix file: no nl to cr/nl conversion

2009-07-21 Thread Mathias Bauer
and/or open it correctly. I am on WinXP, opening a file that is on a samba mapped drive ? Select the filter Text Encoded in your file open dialog. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't

Re: [users] Re: OOo Writer: saving and opening documents

2009-06-25 Thread Mathias Bauer
, but it's in the works. It should be clear that a function like this should be implemented as stable as possible. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor...@gmx.de. I use

Re: [users] OpenOffice 3.1 not compatible with Windows 7?

2009-06-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
with it. OR did MS make some hidden coding that makes sure Non-MS office software does not work with Windows 7. Whatever problems might exist between OOo 3.1 and Windows 7, OOo 3.2 (that will be released short after Windows 7) surely will be improved in that regard. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer

Re: [users] Re: spell checking under Linux

2009-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
=FIXCOMMITTEDfield.assignee=field.bug_reporter=field.omit_dupes=onfield.has_patch=field.has_no_package= So the Ubuntu version has all the upstream bugs and some more. I assume because of that Jonathan considers it to be worse. Simple calculation. ;-) Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead

Re: [users] Housekeeping

2009-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
you have to use. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor...@gmx.de. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Looking for update 3.1.1, hotfix, or downgrade opinions

2009-05-20 Thread Mathias Bauer
(and want to) build OOo by yourself, I'm sure that the developers that fix the bug will tell you how to get the fix into a custom build based on the 3.1 release. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com

Re: [users] Save button in 3.0.1 Ubuntu

2009-04-28 Thread Mathias Bauer
it's necessary to make decisions, even if that means that not all people will like the result. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to nospamfor...@gmx.de. I use

Re: [users] Save button in 3.0.1 Ubuntu

2009-04-27 Thread Mathias Bauer
to copy Excel here and added a patch that always enables the Save button. The patch was not accepted for the official builds as it was considered to be a wrong behavior. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http

Re: [users] Re: Saving dta on a samba-share

2009-01-31 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi, I'm sorry that I overlooked this when it was posted. I now found it by luck. As it was a direct question to me I will answer it even if it might be a little bit outdated. NoOp wrote: On 11/21/2008 12:40 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote: NoOp wrote: [snip] Also, note that StarOffice 9 (yet

Re: [users] Re: Saving dta on a samba-share

2008-11-21 Thread Mathias Bauer
, but that's not true. Please don't create urban legends. The only reason for the delay in the SO release is that it's faster to offer something for download than bringing it into the necessary distribution channels. But they always use the same code base. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba

Re: [users] Re : [users] OOo with WebDav on Https

2008-10-12 Thread Mathias Bauer
them as a kind of local copy in the file system. Perhaps for whatever reason OOo has a problem working with this local copy. MS Office uses an own file dialog also. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com

Re: [users] samba, cifs/smbfs, OOo2, windows xp and linux

2007-12-18 Thread Mathias Bauer
-- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] best PDA for OpenOffice.org

2007-12-14 Thread Mathias Bauer
Healthy Beaver wrote: Hi, I have a Palm TX but it does not do OOo and so I want to buy something that will. What do you recommend? There is an ODF viewer for Symbian devices available at www.sept-solutions.com. It is planned to have editing functionality also. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias

Re: [users] DOCX file

2007-12-14 Thread Mathias Bauer
will be quite useful. I wouldn't waste my time with the current stopgag solutions. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only

Re: [users] Writer - conversion to pdf

2007-12-05 Thread Mathias Bauer
odt files that way: then they also don't have a proper extension and if you convert them to pdf in the same folder the odt file might get overwritten by the pdf file (you should have seen a warning for that). This might explain the corrupted files. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project

Re: [users] Make opening document active?

2007-12-04 Thread Mathias Bauer
-- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Make opening document active?

2007-12-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
that do it correctly (like OOo) and other's don't. You also must differentiate between applications that (like wordpad) create a new instance for every document and others that don't. IIRC Word 2003 does it like OOo (if you configure it to use SDI, not MDI). Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba

Re: [users] Make opening document active?

2007-12-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
decide whether the focus is transferred to the new window or not. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other

Re: [users] Make opening document active?

2007-12-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:46:06 +0100 Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: If you are talking about the second document window of an application: I know that there are SDI applications that do it correctly (like OOo) and other's don't. You also must differentiate

Re: [users] Save failures in Calc

2007-12-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 30/11/2007, Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kevin johnston wrote: snip Can I attach an 11MB file to a bug report? The guidelines say 1MB max. In that case you should place a comment in the bug report that the developer or QA person can ask you

Re: [users] Make opening document active?

2007-12-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
them - blame the desktop, not OOo. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Save failures in Calc

2007-11-30 Thread Mathias Bauer
kevin johnston wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: Hi Kevin, kevin johnston wrote: I'm seeing a bizarre behavior and I'm stumped: Calc can read in a spreadsheet, display it, edit it, but cannot write it out. there are two know situations where OOo has problems saving files: - the file

Re: [users] Save failures in Calc

2007-11-30 Thread Mathias Bauer
Robin Laing wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: Hi Kevin, kevin johnston wrote: I'm seeing a bizarre behavior and I'm stumped: Calc can read in a spreadsheet, display it, edit it, but cannot write it out. there are two know situations where OOo has problems saving files: - the file belongs

Re: [users] Save failures in Calc

2007-11-28 Thread Mathias Bauer
assume that your problem is different. I recommend that you create an issue in our bug reporting system and attach some files for testing. This will allow developers to have a look on the problem. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering

Re: [users] [moderated] Error Messages in Open Office 2.30

2007-11-27 Thread Mathias Bauer
in case this is missing in user\basic. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Using OpenOffice 2.3 with screenreader orca

2007-11-16 Thread Mathias Bauer
. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please

Re: [users] Re: Cannot send email from OpenOffice

2007-11-07 Thread Mathias Bauer
should work also so it could serve as a test case that doesn't need installing everything (only making it the default client). Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL

Re: [users] Using OpenOffice 2.3 with screenreader orca

2007-11-07 Thread Mathias Bauer
am I missing? Perhaps you don't have a JRE installed? OOo's accessibility implementation is based on Java accessibility. I will try to ask one of our experts if it can be something else. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun

Re: [users] read only document

2007-11-06 Thread Mathias Bauer
better, only a few developers can be reached on the discuss list but at least some should see your RFE. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use

Re: [users] read only document

2007-11-06 Thread Mathias Bauer
the read-only bit indeed is a setting in the document and so more or less does what you expect. So where's the surprise? (Sorry, don't get it.) Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply

Re: [users] Re: » ODF infighting could help Microsoft’s OOXML | All about M icrosoft | ZDNet.com - Sent Using Googl e Toolbar

2007-11-05 Thread Mathias Bauer
. Fortunately the OASIS rules forbid such infiltration strategy. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails

Re: [users] read only document

2007-10-30 Thread Mathias Bauer
Mathias Bauer wrote: I still understand why Tools-Options-Security is not enough: of course that should be: I still *don't* understand... :-[ Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please

Re: [users] read only document

2007-10-29 Thread Mathias Bauer
Drew Jensen wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: Alan Boba wrote: On 10/24/07, Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can't enforce read only behavior in an open file format. If somebody wanted to change your file he just can do it on the level of the xml streams inside the package

Re: [users] read only document

2007-10-29 Thread Mathias Bauer
like in Word can be circumented even by a kid? Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] read only document

2007-10-26 Thread Mathias Bauer
Alan Boba wrote: On 10/24/07, Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can't enforce read only behavior in an open file format. If somebody wanted to change your file he just can do it on the level of the xml streams inside the package. So such a feature is pointless. Mathias, I'm

Re: [users] read only document

2007-10-26 Thread Mathias Bauer
Word does is that it prevents users from *inadvertently changing those parts of the document that shouldn't be changed. And that is possible in OOo also, using Tools-Options-Security. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http

Re: [users] read only document

2007-10-24 Thread Mathias Bauer
they get has been changed or not. This is better than the pseudo-security feature of a readonly mode. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use

Re: [users] Java.com orange coffee cup icon

2007-10-24 Thread Mathias Bauer
it or this dialog will pop up each time you log in. Now you won't get any update notifications for Java anymore. The drawback is that you have to look for updates by yourself in the future (e.g. security bug fixes). Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org

Re: [users] Simple spreadsheet opens extremely slow in ods-format

2007-10-23 Thread Mathias Bauer
the file so that developers can have a look at the problem. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other

Re: [users] Trobles with Oo. 2.3 speed

2007-10-23 Thread Mathias Bauer
objects (like formulas) are very slow. It will be fixed in 2.3.1. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read

Re: [users] Question regarding compatibility

2007-10-23 Thread Mathias Bauer
, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Bug Report 82446

2007-10-20 Thread Mathias Bauer
on you can ask on the dev mailing list of the QA project or the particular development project the issue is assigned to. But please do it only if it is *really* urgent. You know: if everything is urgent nothing is urgent. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer

Re: [users] Editing Embedded Excel/Calc in Word/Writer

2007-07-18 Thread Mathias Bauer
-Options-Load/Save-MicrosoftOffice Make sure that the option to convert objects on Load and Save is set for all formats. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [users] Error Message

2007-07-18 Thread Mathias Bauer
to ask if you want to know how to use a smaller and sharper scalpel for the surgery. ;-) Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists

Re: [users] Re: word 2007 docx documents

2007-07-07 Thread Mathias Bauer
NoOp schrieb: On 07/06/2007 12:08 AM, Mathias Bauer wrote: Gary Dale wrote: Actually the filter you mention for OpenOffice from Novell will only work with Novell version of OOo so I'm told. It will not open xlsx documents yet. I've used it sucessfully to send and recieve docx

Re: [users] Re: word 2007 docx documents

2007-07-06 Thread Mathias Bauer
-- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Re: Save error in Writer

2007-07-06 Thread Mathias Bauer
is a great tool for that. It can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Filemon.mspx. I admit that it's a little bit techy but creating a filemon log from a failed try to save a document surely would help to find the root cause. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer

Re: [users] Save error in Writer

2007-07-05 Thread Mathias Bauer
? These are the most common root causes for the effect you described. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails

Re: [users] Re: [Calc] Hyperlinks with URI handler tel:

2007-07-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
plugin for OOo writing such extension in Java shouldn't be a big deal for somebody who knows Java. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo

Re: [users] Re: [Calc] Hyperlinks with URI handler tel:

2007-07-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
inside the status bar. As displaying link targets isn't a very common tasks in office applications it would be a waste of screen space to reserve a place in the task bar for it. Perhaps we can use the right most field for it? This is kind of a multi purpose field. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer

Re: [users] Re: Re: [Calc] Hyperlinks with URI handler tel:

2007-07-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Andreas Borutta wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: Hi Mathias :) I'm not sure if this would work currently or if it needed some small code changes in OOo. From a short look into the source code I see a good chance that it could work now already. So if somebody wanted to write an extension

Re: [users] Is it possible to link to a style

2007-06-28 Thread Mathias Bauer
be technically possible to link to template file names (they can be stored in the metadata) we don't do it. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use

Re: [users] multiple instances control mechanism

2007-06-26 Thread Mathias Bauer
/.openoffice.org2.0 depending on your security context. There's a lockfile in the OOo profile that is used to prevent concurrent access to this directory. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS

Re: [users] Is there an easy way to transform an ODT to a single XML file?

2007-06-26 Thread Mathias Bauer
extension. Using this new export filter will store the whole Writer document into a single xml file. Beware! I can become quite huge for bigger documents. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS

Re: [users] Re: Program profiles

2007-06-20 Thread Mathias Bauer
the -env:UserInstallation= switch. So I recommened to use the latter always. But thanks for the hint, I will talk to the authors of that documentation to change it. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com

Re: [users] Program profiles

2007-06-19 Thread Mathias Bauer
them as examples. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Re: Copying to unsubscribed posters

2007-06-18 Thread Mathias Bauer
moderated posts) it would suffice as the label is needed only for a few days. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read

Re: [users] Re: XML Forms and binding

2007-06-18 Thread Mathias Bauer
around OO's XML Forms. The XForms stuff is still work in progress. You might get more information on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply

Re: [users] Program profiles

2007-06-18 Thread Mathias Bauer
). Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Re: Copying to unsubscribed posters

2007-06-15 Thread Mathias Bauer
Russell Butler wrote: Trevor Farlow wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: Trevor Farlow wrote: A long-time OOo user, I've found myself with enough time again to answer user questions from time-to-time. Here's my issue: I read the list as a newsgroup, and I look for the Delivered-To: moderator

Re: [users] Lotus 123

2007-06-13 Thread Mathias Bauer
to access? OpenOffice.org has a decent WP import filter. If your documents contain some advanced features or very fancy formattings they probably will not be converted 100% perfectly but I assume that it will be done in a reasonable good quality. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project

Re: [users] power loss- auto recovery enabled but not seen

2007-06-13 Thread Mathias Bauer
with a number added at the end (separated by an underscore). Parts of the file - or if you are lucky - the file itself might have been in the TEMP folder in a sub directory with a name starting with sv. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering

Re: [users] libnpsoplugin.so and nsplugin

2007-06-13 Thread Mathias Bauer
build to get these two files for the plugin. Did you try deinstalling the Ubuntu version and installing the official OOo build instead that you can get from the OOo website? It should come with the plugin library. Ciao,Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2007-06-13 Thread Mathias Bauer
://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=8938 C. ... so there was made progress regarding this? - The legal review and everything else that had blocked the work is done. Now the developer of the filter just needs to deliver his work to cvs. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead

Re: [users] Copying to unsubscribed posters

2007-06-13 Thread Mathias Bauer
the poster's address and put him to into cc. There is no way to make TBird add the From: address to the list of recipients. Surely that's aligned with the recommended practice as explained by Brian but in case of mailing lists that munge the Reply-To it came in handy. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias

Re: [users] Re: word 2007 docx documents

2007-06-13 Thread Mathias Bauer
are working together on native OOo filters for die OOXML formats. Reports about ongoing work and hints where filter milestone builds can be downloaded will pop up on the GullFOSS blogs at times. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering

Re: [users] Re: EPS - Export with Draw

2007-06-12 Thread Mathias Bauer
Joe Smith wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: Joe Smith wrote: Why does OOo not have a tool like Windows' regedit, or Mozilla's about:config, or GConf's gconf-editor, where the OOo registry could be searched and edited directly? You can a lot of good XML editors to do so. This is even more

Re: [users] OO.o 2.2 not saving correctly in MS formats

2007-06-12 Thread Mathias Bauer
, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Re: EPS - Export with Draw

2007-06-04 Thread Mathias Bauer
are working hard on the requests already, there's no time to look for obvious benefits that noone requested before. ;-) Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I

Re: [users] OO.o 2.2 not saving correctly in MS formats

2007-06-02 Thread Mathias Bauer
. How can I do this? I really need the doc file. Would you mind creating an issue in our Issue Tracker and attach a sample document for testing? Do you remember (or can find out) which version of OOo worked correctly for you? Thanks, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead

Re: [users] Can't properly apply styles

2007-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007 09:20:13 +0200 Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: John Jason Jordan wrote: 2) Yes, I know how I did it and I did it correctly. I've been using OOo since StarOffice 5.something as my only word processor and I live in it. I always do my

Re: [sw-users] Multiple languages on one document

2007-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
is visible Frank Meies' tip would be helpful. As you are not subscribed to the list I recommend to check the archive for Frank's reply to your mail. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please

Re: [users] User and share wordbooks - some questions

2007-05-30 Thread Mathias Bauer
already talked about that with Laurent Godard (the author of DictOOo) and he agreed in general. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo

Re: [users] Re: First OpenOffice Virus, Not In the Wild

2007-05-30 Thread Mathias Bauer
Joe Smith wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: ... Yes, signing is possible (I mentioned that several times ;-)). Yes, I've never tried to use it and I wasn't exactly sure what the signing accomplished. I also don't know what the scope of the protection is. Suppose the document

Re: [users] Can't properly apply styles

2007-05-30 Thread Mathias Bauer
and the first part of the line (Research Project) went to 16 points, but the remainder of the line remained at 14 points. I couldn't reproduce that with OOo2.2 on Windows. Can you reproduce it by starting from scratch? Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer

Re: [users] Re: First OpenOffice Virus, Not In the Wild

2007-05-29 Thread Mathias Bauer
or not the macros in a document have been modified? Can the macros be write-protected or signed somehow? Yes, signing is possible (I mentioned that several times ;-)). Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http

Re: [users] Re: First OpenOffice Virus, Not In the Wild

2007-05-29 Thread Mathias Bauer
a huge effort and it can create new security holes that are hard to find and fix. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only

Re: [users] Re: First OpenOffice Virus, Not In the Wild

2007-05-29 Thread Mathias Bauer
location, but users can explicitly add them. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Re: First OpenOffice Virus, Not In the Wild

2007-05-28 Thread Mathias Bauer
it neither specifies them nor makes them mandatory. OOo could specify that it never puts macros into documents nor executes any of them at any time. That would be enough. Again, I'm afraid this could make users angry. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer

Re: [users] First OpenOffice Virus, Not In the Wild

2007-05-27 Thread Mathias Bauer
Cor Nouws schrieb: Mathias Bauer wrote: - don't allow to put macros in documents at all [...] Many users won't accept the first option. Jürgen Schmidt wrote a blog http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/does_program_logic_embedded_in about discarding the document macro functionality

Re: [users] Re: First OpenOffice Virus, Not In the Wild

2007-05-27 Thread Mathias Bauer
a security concept on OOo Basic is the way to go - it will add new security holes that are harder to understand and fix than the only hole we have now - the mouse click to grant permission to execute. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org

Re: [users] First OpenOffice Virus, Not In the Wild

2007-05-27 Thread Mathias Bauer
-- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent

Re: [users] Re: First OpenOffice Virus, Not In the Wild

2007-05-27 Thread Mathias Bauer
can convince its author to change that (I tried several times), but whatever comes out it shows that the demand for document macros is still there. The unbundling wouldn't cause a lot of coding in OOo. And why should it require changes in ODF? Macros are not part of ODF. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias

Re: [users] Is it possible to insert a file in the ODT archive?

2007-05-25 Thread Mathias Bauer
domain notation to have your own namespace. So a usual media type would be org.myproject.myapplication.mytype or vnd.companyname.productname.type. OOo itself uses org.openoffice or in some places vnd.sun.star. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org

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