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Regards,
Dave

> On Feb 24, 2021, at 11:35 AM, Dean.Webber <2018001...@student.sit.ac.nz> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone, glad to be here. I am going to jump right in with my intentions 
> and to share some things.
> 
> During the course of this year, I hope to find a solution to UI issues under 
> Linux with regards to Mint-Y-xxxx themes and various other themes under other 
> Linux distributions. This UI issue makes the program hard to use where 
> entering data into text areas (character, pictures, save, calc etc) (more 
> detail https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=106&t=104563)
> 
> I tried to email direct from the list at 
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Directory+of+Volunteers 
> but it seems this list may require update πŸ™‚
> 
> My main concern is that some people believe that AOO is not being developed 
> or updated, clearly this is not the case. I would like to point some of the 
> volunteers in marketing, user support/assistance and business management to 
> engage in forums and online communities to show that AOO is still being 
> developed. Specifically, I am referring to 
> https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ and Reddit communities.
> 
> It seems that the moderators of the forum point users with issues to use LO, 
> recently to someone with a small issue such as installing the 
> desktop-integration RPM component of AOO on Red Hat Linux.
> 
> It also seems that MS might be dropping support for 32-bit programs, so 
> perhaps a x64 edition of AOO?
> 
> What I would ultimately like to see, is any serious bugs ironed out that 
> prevent widespread adoption of AOO, I only know of the UI bug, and to see AOO 
> 4.2.0 included as the main Office Suite in Linux Distributions. <- Because 
> AOO is awesome, as are the contributors and volunteers πŸ™‚ πŸ‘
> 
> My background, Mechanical Engineering student from New Zealand. I will try to 
> install AOO on various Linux Distributions and check the themes for UI issues.
> 
> Sorry to jump right in without getting a 'feel' for what's happening at the 
> moment in this dev-list. Keep up the great work on your projects everyone πŸ™‚ πŸ™ 
> πŸ™‚
> 
> All the best.


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