AFAICT this email contributes nothing to the discussion other than the spam in it's sig - i may be missing something however?
On Thursday 14 January 2010 13:09, Pep Marketing, Webs & Seo wrote: > * > * > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 00:51, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:27:35 -0800 > > > > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo: > > >What I meant to ask was what is the name of the folder in ~/? For > > >example, in OOo 2.x it was called ~/.openoffice.org2, for 3.0 the "2" > > >was dropped (which I found confusing, but oh well). Now I have two > > >folders: > > > > > >~/.ooo3.new > > >~/.openoffice.org > > > > > >I don't recall ever seeing ooo3.new before when I had 3.0 on Jaunty, so > > >is that the new folder? > > > > I discovered that my 3.1.1 is using the ~/.openoffice.org folder. I > > proved this by renaming each one in turn, and also by renaming both. > > None of my extensions, templates or preferences appear unless the > > ~/.openoffice.org folder is intact. > > > > Interestingly, with both of them renamed OOo automatically creates a > > new one, also titled ~/.openoffice.org, but the AutoCorrect feature is > > still missing. In other words, the problem is not in my configurations. > > > > >>I _think_ you are using one of the no-go variants of OOo. The default > > >>no-go installation omits a number of features that people find > > >>useful, and adds several show stopping bugs, that should require > > >>immediate recall, and be fixed, because their inefficiency experts > > >>live in Fantasy Land.(To call them show stopping bugs, is to > > >>underestimate the degree to which they cripple the functionality of > > >>OOo. On a scale on 1 - 100, in importance to fix, these rate at > > >>least 10 000, if not 100 000. > > >> > > >>>And why would Fedora install OOo without installing all its features? > > >> > > >>The theory is that people don't use the features that aren't included. > > > > > >It's definitely a distro-customized version of 3.1.1, that is, a no-go > > >version of some sort. I fully understand the difference between no-go > > >versions and the "real" OOo from the website. It's just that if they > > >disabled AutoCorrect I find it incredible that they would do so in the > > >first place, and also incredible that I'm the first person who has > > >noticed it. Besides, I do have the acor_en-US.dat file. Why would I > > >even have such a file if AutoCorrect was disabled? > > > > Just now I found these: > > > > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=21724 > > > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=219704&highlight=autocorre > >ct > > > > Apparently, jonathan's supposition was correct - Fedora disabled the > > AutoCorrect feature, astonishing as that is. But in reading the above > > posts, apparently it is not just AutoCorrect that is disabled. Fedora > > disabled everything that requires Java. And, according to the above > > posts, the logic is that Java, while free, is not completely open > > source. I'm not sure if that is correct, because I have Sun's Java > > installed and also one called Free Software Foundation Java 1.50. OOo > > is happy to use either one, although AutoCorrect still won't work > > regardless of which one I select. > > > > So now I am off to uninstall Fedora's OOo and install the one from > > www.openoffice.org. Y'all keep your fingers crossed for me, 'k? > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
