http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8964 <pre>I just did a complete cleaning and re-installation of LibreOffice on my 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I now have LibreOffice Version 4.0.3.3 (Build ID: 0eaa50a932c8f2199a615e1eb30f7ac74279539) installed. I was attempting to explore the grammar checking feature - using either F7 or "Tools | Spelling and Grammar ..." but have been unable to get it to do anything. My sample was a new blank document in which I typed "the boyz is good." The auto-correction capitalized the initial "T", and the spell checker flagged "boyz," but there was no indication at all about a problem with "boys is," even after re-running F7 once the spelling of "boys" had been corrected. Under Tools | Language Settings | Writing Aids - Available Language Modules, "LightProof Language Checker" is checked. Under Tools | Language Settings | Writing Aids - Options, "Check grammar as you type" is checked. In the Tools | Language Tool | Configuration dialog, I took one of the checked examples of what the tool checks and used it in the document, as </pre> CVAlkan 2013-05-17T18:59:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8945 <pre>Hi Everyone, are there some plans to extend PDF/A export to new versions of that standard other than and in addition to PDF/A-1? I mean PDF/A-2 and PDF/A-3 that are already ISO standards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A Nice Google SoC activity? ;-) Have All a sunny day, Carlo </pre> Carlo Strata 2013-05-15T15:04:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8941 <pre>Hi All, Is there a wiki or something that has all the steps associated with getting a new locale setup? I think there are a ton of steps, from translating the software itself to getting a website up, a mailing list, etc... etc.... There is someone over on google+ asking for help and just not sure where to direct them. Best, Joel </pre> Joel Madero 2013-05-14T16:37:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8938 <pre> "ODF is recommended by numerous governments and NGO's worldwide, with Indonesia, the European Commission, and NATO amongst those who support policies calling for ODF as the preferred document production, retention and exchange format." I like this "quote". NATO - well the US and Canada are part of NATO - correct? That means that the USA, when dealing with other NATO members should use ODF for their documentation and other files. Any more national and international organization can added to that list? That may force MSO to do ODF better or just start thinking about using an office package that does it better than MSO does. I am a little vague on what is involved with the "European Commission", like how many of the EU are part of it, etc.. But, it does imply that countries in Europe support the ODF format[s]. Since LO uses ODF as their default format, we support the policies of these worldwide organizations. Since any Tech Adminknows that MS/MSO have been sued by the EU many many times and MS</pre> Kracked_P_P---webmaster 2013-05-10T16:42:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8920 <pre>Hello, sorry for spamming all the lists, but in the light of recent events and discussions, I'd like to make all of you aware of an important mailing list, that so far has not been used as extensively as it should be, which led to some frustration and communication issues. As part of our mission to foster the project internal communication, I'd like to tell you about our so called projects mailing list, which Sophie initiated quite a while ago, and which should be used for communication amongst the various projects - e.g. design and marketing, development and marketing, UX and development, and the like. The list's intention is not to be a gossip list where everything should be thrown at, but to make all affected projects aware of important changes. Philosophy: Low traffic, but important topics. Some examples are: Change of version numbers, a new slogan, design changes, new products. In other words: Everything that has an impact on other areas of working than the one where the change originally</pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-04T13:24:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8919 <pre>Hello, at the moment, we are looking for volunteers who could help moderate this mailing list. If you are interested, the only requirement is that you are subscribed to the list yourself and read its mails in a somehow timely manner, but that's about it. Moderation means dealing with e-mails that do not automatically make it to the list, which you then manually forward, or reject. This happens either when an e-mail comes from an unknown sender, e.g. when a project member uses a different address for posting. It also occurs when someone unexperienced writes to the list, thinking it's a private account, but in fact it's a public list. You'll receive the message to be moderated via e-mail, which you then can either "moderate through", or reject. Is someone interested in joining our efforts? It'd be much appreciated - just drop me an email (please also copy me directly, and not only the list), then I'm happy to add you to the list of moderators. Thanks! Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-05-04T11:17:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8909 <pre>I've just recently upgraded LibreOffice on the EeePC 900 to LibreOffice 3.4.4 OOO340m1 (Build:402). However, I now have the lower button bar that has most of the icons, like Bold, Italic, Underline, etc. that with the updated looks of the tool bar have become at about unreadable.... &lt;http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4052213/LibreOffice_Tool_Bar.jpg&gt; Obviously on a big screen this most likely will not be any issue, but on the 1024x600 netbook screen this just wasn't such a smart move. I did look, but only did find old messages on the tool bar, so I started this new topic. I did look into LO to see if I can use a different look, but haven't found that (yet). Rgs, Angela -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Tool-Bar-Icons-tp4052213.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. </pre> Angela 2013-04-25T08:13:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8889 <pre>Was nmake looked at as an alternative to mingw? as it is its part of visual studio and works with make files just like make does. what does mingw have that nmake doesnt? i feel switching would greatly reduce build complexity in terms of building on windows. </pre> Jonathan Aquilina 2013-04-22T16:40:17 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8879 <pre>Hello all, What are your thoughts about having a countdown towards April 8 2014 when MS will stop supporting MSO 2003? AOO has a blog dedicated to this: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/one_year_until_the_end Should LibreOffice do the same? Offer this deadline as an additional incentive to adopt our office suite? Cheers from Montreal Immanuel </pre> Immanuel Giulea 2013-04-18T23:31:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8871 <pre>Hi, this is a message from an Italian user, he says that he can modify a bug not created by him in Bugzilla. Is it normal? --------- Messaggio inoltrato --------- Oggetto: [it-users] Bugzilla Mi sono accorto, cercando un bug, che ho i permessi per cambiare lo stato, cancellare gli utenti in CC, cambiare l'importanza, ecc. Quasi un super user, è normale? </pre> Valter Mura 2013-04-09T19:26:20 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8868 <pre>Hi all Why doesn't Calc (at least under Windows...) use all available cores and threads to speed up operations? Opening a heavy (200k lines x 26 cols) xlsx file takes 6 seconds in a Intel Core i5 (2 cores, 4 threads) using MS Office 2010. I can see the first 3 threads briefly going up to 70% load and it's loaded. Using Calc 4.0.2 after waiting 5 minutes watching the first thread at over 85% load (and the fan whirring like crazy), I gave up waiting. Is this a compiler limitation? A code limitation? Regards, Pedro -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Cores-and-threads-tp4047285.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. </pre> Pedro 2013-04-01T13:48:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8867 <pre>Hello! We are two students currently performing a study about the impact of trust in open source projects. We are currently looking for participants to interview about the experiences of working within open source projects. It would be absolutely awesome if some of you would like to help us by participating, we are currently quite desperate for participants since our deadline is approaching fast. Please reply or send me a message at sebastian.skytt&lt; at &gt;gmail.com if you are interested, it would help us greatly. The format for the interview is not set, it can be performed at your convenience, through a skype-call or through textbased chat, which every suits you the most. Please don't be shy, we are practically newbies when it comes to open source and we really need your expertise and experience! /Best regards, Sebastian. </pre> Sebastian Skytt 2013-03-25T10:53:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8863 <pre>Hello, this is just a nice reminder that if you have some time over the weekend, and some good material for our annual report, feel free to send it in. Being sick the past couple of days, I didn't start writing yet, but am still collecting material, so you would be just in time. ;-) Thanks, and have a nice weekend, Florian </pre> Florian Effenberger 2013-03-23T10:59:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8862 <pre>Hi all In the sequence of this topic at the Marketing list http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Open-Xchange-to-launch-open-source-browser-based-office-suite-tp4045197.html I share Simon Phipps' concern that the company announces a GPL Open Source office suite which is not free for commercial use??? Is this even possible under GPL? This just spreads further confusion on how free Open Source software really is... Another sentence that worries me is "Microsoft Word .docx files and OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice .odt files" This is bad marketing and bad public image that ODT seems to be proprietary of OpenOffice and LibreOffice. And yet I don't see any concerns about this in the topic commenting the news article. Shouldn't TDF be championing the ODF open formats or is this an OASIS job? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Open-source-and-open-formats-tp4045522.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. </pre> Pedro 2013-03-23T09:48:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8853 <pre>Hi *, I have "relaunched" the chart "LibreOffice Lifecycle" (s. [1]). Maybe someone can use this. [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan regards Jochen </pre> Jochen 2013-03-14T19:26:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8836 <pre>Hello, There is one week left to the deadline to apply for GSoC 2013 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 Are there any plans to send an application for TDF and LibreOffice ? Immanuel </pre> Immanuel Giulea 2013-03-11T15:13:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8811 <pre>This grant does not specify any particular open-source license. My intention is to not limit in any way the licensing of works that my contributions are incorporated in. The license is self- contained for that reason. There is no conflict with how LibreOffice releases are licensed and there is nothing that has to be done about the presence of my contributions or derivatives thereof. It is also my intention that everyone having access to my contributions to LibreOffice where they are so contributed be be granted the license whether or not the contribution is accepted into LibreOffice and wherever those recipients might choose to rely on its provisions. The license makes no stipulations one way or the other concerning works of mine that are not contributions to LibreOffice. The license does not transfer copyright nor does it assign patents. - Dennis -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 GrantTDF 1.00 UTF-8 dh:2013-03-07 GRANT OF LICENSE All o</pre> Dennis E. Hamilton 2013-03-08T03:48:26 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8808 <pre>Hi; While working on my wiki page about a new Writer toolbar, I realized that independently of my proposal, I believe it makes sense for LibreOffice to prefer Python. I see how LO is heading in this direction, but you could be explicit about it, create more workitems, perhaps track it like you do the German comments and uncalled functions, etc. You may have to support Java for years, but that doesn't mean you should invest in the language. I wrote almost an entire chapter in my book about some of the biggest problems with it (http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?page_id=2228). You've already got a layer that allows you to have bindings with multiple languages, and you can just keep it around for any of the ones people care about. This isn't about taking away language choices for users, but doing what is best for your code and community. According to Ohloh, Java is 5% of your code, Python is .5%, and Basic is .2%. I know some wizards have been ported over, but it appears that was just the start. I would consider </pre> Keith Curtis 2013-03-10T00:16:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8797 <pre>This is the complementary grant applicable to my contributions to the Apache Software Foundation. I am making copies of both grants available to the ASF Secretary so they can be carried in the records of the Foundation. This posting can be found at &lt;http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201303.mbox/%3c008801ce1c21$0deb3560$29c1a020$&lt; at &gt;apache.org%3e&gt;. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orcmid&lt; at &gt;apache.org] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2013 09:19 To: dev&lt; at &gt;openoffice.apache.org Subject: GRANT OF LICENSE: Dennis E. Hamilton The grant of license (below) applies to all of my contributions to ASF projects beyond the provisions of the Contributor License Agreement that I have entered into with The Apache Software Foundation. The purpose is to make my contributions equally available beyond the Apache Project to which I make the contribution. The contri- butions are licensed, by the grant below, to anyone who chooses to make use of them, whether another Apache Pro</pre> Dennis E. Hamilton 2013-03-08T21:17:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8795 <pre>Hi; I'm working on a proposal for building an experimental new LibreOffice toolbar / UI in Python: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:KeithCu I'm going to add some links to places where the C++ code would need to be changed and a few more tweaks, but I'm interested in feedback. Feel free to use email or post in the discussion page as you prefer. Regards, -Keith </pre> Keith Curtis 2013-03-08T20:44:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss/8793 <pre>Using the address by which I am subscribed to discuss &lt; at &gt;df.o -----Original Message----- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orcmid&lt; at &gt;apache.org] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 19:48 To: LOffice Developers List (libreoffice&lt; at &gt;lists.freedesktop.org) Cc: 'discuss&lt; at &gt;documentfoundation.org' Subject: Grant of License This grant does not specify any particular open-source license. My intention is to not limit in any way the licensing of works that my contributions are incorporated in. The license is self- contained for that reason. There is no conflict with how LibreOffice releases are licensed and there is nothing that has to be done about the presence of my contributions or derivatives thereof. It is also my intention that everyone having access to my contributions to LibreOffice where they are so contributed be be granted the license whether or not the contribution is accepted into LibreOffice and wherever those recipients might choose to rely on its provisions. The license makes no stipulations one way or the othe</pre> Dennis E. Hamilton 2013-03-08T04:47:26 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.documentfoundation.discuss