Michael: That all sounds do-able. Half of Berkeley was without power today so I'll give it a go tomorrow between classes.
Thanks for throwing something my way! Robert On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@novell.com>wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 17:49 -0700, Robert Vaccaro wrote: > > I'm new to hacking LibreOffice and would like to implement the Notes > > (comments) toggling easyhack. Before I begin working on it, is anyone > > else currently working on this? I don't want to duplicate effort. > > Also, is this easyhack still relevant from a UI perspective? > > Yes, it is still relevant. And wrt. duplicating effort I see Cor > has > some mind-boggling plan to take a mutex on several un-disclosed fun easy > hacks for Thursday; Jan - Cor - if you want to do this - please add a > comment with a date next to the easy hack to avoid confusion (as the > page suggests). > > > I plan to stick to simple easyhacks/simple bugs until I get a better > > feel for how everything works. > > So - it sucks to loose that; still - the good news is, that I have > some > rather easy things that need doing, that perhaps you could do > instead ? :-) > > The first is to move: > > desktop/source/pagein/* > into > desktop/unx/source > > and clean that up - we don't need to make or install a 'pagein' > binary > I think after my re-work. > > Another simple hack, that might help startup time for some would be > to > add some simple type detection for common file extensions per component > to: > > desktop/unx/source/args.c (args_parse) > > it would be great if this could do some simple work on extensions; > eg. > > .odt / .fodt / doc / .docx should result in a @pagein-writer > argument > getting returned. etc. [ we only really need that for the common cases > ]. > > This is one of the pieces that cannot be symlinked, so after > running: > > 'build' in desktop/ (source LinuxIntelEnv.Set.sh first) > > you'll need to do: > > cp -af unxlngi6.pro/bin/ooqstart /path/to/install/program/ooqstart.bin > > And then to test the pagein you'll want to do: > > strace -f -e file ./soffice /tmp/foo.doc 2>&1 | grep pagein > > to see if it got the right pagein file :-) > > How does that sound ? is that something do-able ? [no one else has > it ;-]. > > Of course, if you're not interested it'd be great to add them to the > easy hacks page. > > Anyhow - really great to have you involved, and looking forward to > seeing what you get up to :-) [ it is of course far cooler to have > people interested in improving the UI IMHO etc. ;-] > > Thanks ! > > Michael. > > -- > michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot > >
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