[users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-30 Thread Russell Butler
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:22:56 +1100 Russell Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Sorry, John I wasn't really trying to teach grandma to suck eggs. You seemed to be very eager to get a later version of OOo running. Sorry if I misread your skills and experience with Linux.

Re: [users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-30 Thread James Knott
John Jason Jordan wrote: Perhaps I can install the 64-bit version of 2.04 using alien. However, I can't find a .deb or an .rpm file of 64-bit 2.04, so I am stuck with what I find in the Ubuntu repositories. That means 2.04, Ubuntu edition. If someone can tell me where I can find a .deb or .rpm

Re: [users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-30 Thread James Knott
Russell Butler wrote: It is unlikely that a 64-bit version would give any major increased functionality unless you are recalculating huge spreadsheets, as an office program spends most of its time waiting for you to press keys, and you are unlikely to need huge amounts of memory addressing.

Re: [users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-30 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:31:06 +1100 Russell Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: I wasn't really trying to teach grandma to suck eggs. You seemed to be very eager to get a later version of OOo running. Sorry if I misread your skills and experience with Linux. I may have seemed annoyed (well, I am,

[users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-29 Thread NoOp
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:48:56 -0800 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Can you please explain the DD that you are trying to do in more detail? For instance; I *can* DD from a Gnome desktop start icon into OOo with no problems, but I've not tried to do this from any other

Re: [users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:57:03 -0800 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:48:56 -0800 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Can you please explain the DD that you are trying to do in more detail? OK, let's suppose I had written your response above. And I

Re: [users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-29 Thread jimw wagner
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:57:03 -0800 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:48:56 -0800 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Can you please explain the DD that you are trying to do in more detail? OK, let's

Re: [users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:25:49 -0600 jimw wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: I've been reading this with some interest,. as I am using the official version of OO2.1 on Ubuntu Dapper. I've been doing a lot of editing recently, and have never yet had a problem with Drag and Drop. I will never

Re: [users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-29 Thread jimw wagner
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:25:49 -0600 jimw wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: I've been reading this with some interest,. as I am using the official version of OO2.1 on Ubuntu Dapper. I've been doing a lot of editing recently, and have never yet had a problem with Drag

[users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-29 Thread Russell Butler
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:25:49 -0600 jimw wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: I've been reading this with some interest,. as I am using the official version of OO2.1 on Ubuntu Dapper. I've been doing a lot of editing recently, and have never yet had a problem with Drag

[users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-29 Thread Russell Butler
Russell Butler wrote: John Jason Jordan wrote: Gentoo, either because of the compilation problems. Installing in a chroot is a bit of a fiddle, but if you take it patiently not impossible. There was some good documentation in the ubuntu or debian forums/wiki and it all ran quite

Re: [users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:22:56 +1100 Russell Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Sorry for more noise/bandwidth but I think http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html was the clincher for me. OOo even rates a mention. Thanks for the suggestion. Been there, done that,

[users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-28 Thread NoOp
John Jason Jordan wrote: I do note that there are three utilities listed in Synaptic that are not installed: openoffice.org-qa-api-tests OpenOffice.org API Test Data openoffice.org-qa-tools Automatic test programs openoffice.org-qa-ui-testsScripts for the

Re: [users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:48:56 -0800 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Can you please explain the DD that you are trying to do in more detail? For instance; I *can* DD from a Gnome desktop start icon into OOo with no problems, but I've not tried to do this from any other applications. What are you

Re: [users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-25 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:05:41 -0800 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: John Jason Jordan wrote: Drag and drop is not working at all OOo 2.04 on Ubuntu Edgy. It worked fine until I upgraded from 2.02 to 2.04. ... I'm getting pretty desperate. Copying and pasting is time consuming. Can anyone

[users] Re: Drag and drop broken

2007-01-25 Thread NoOp
John Jason Jordan wrote: What I find interesting is that no one has responded with a me too. I also found no bug reports about this on openoffice.org (although it is such a huge site that I may not have searched sufficiently completely to find it). Evidently I am unique. If that is the