Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-28 Thread jonathon
On 27/10/14 19:05, Alphonso Whitfield III wrote: > When is the English language dictionary going to be fixed in the spell > checker application? a) Which English dictionary are you referring to; b) Which cant are you referring to; c) What is wrong with it, that it, in your opinion, needs fixi

Re: Fwd: Can open Open office add?

2014-10-28 Thread jonathon
On 29/10/14 02:36, F C. Costero wrote: > Forwarding in case Darren isn't subscribed. And I see now that my reference > below to 30 years should have been somewhat less, but still many years. Picky. I have no idea if the StarWriter from 1985 included that functionality, but it was not uncommon in

Fwd: Can open Open office add?

2014-10-28 Thread F C. Costero
Forwarding in case Darren isn't subscribed. And I see now that my reference below to 30 years should have been somewhat less, but still many years. That's what I get for reading only the title of a message. Francis -- Forwarded message -- From: F C. Costero Date: Tue, Oct 28, 2014

Re: Can open Open office add?

2014-10-28 Thread F C. Costero
Hi Darren, Really, what is the probability that a spreadsheet program that has roots going back 30 years can't add correctly? Could the program survive with that kind of flaw? I understand that it isn't doing what you expect and over at the user forum we would be happy to help straighten out the

RE: color names in Math

2014-10-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-Original Message- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 17:02 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: color names in Math On 10/28/2014 03:25 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Kay, > > Kay Schenk schrieb: >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:27 AM,

RE: [DISCUSS] User support vs issues

2014-10-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-Original Message- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 16:33 To: OOo Apache Subject: [DISCUSS] User support vs issues We've noticed many more items filed as "issues" lately that fall into the category of user support. In an effort to track down

Re: color names in Math

2014-10-28 Thread Kay Schenk
On 10/28/2014 03:25 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Kay, > > Kay Schenk schrieb: >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Regina Henschel >> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Kay, >>> >>> Kay Schenk schrieb: >>> Hi Regina -- I saw that you had already made some changes yesterday re i118191 >>

[DISCUSS] User support vs issues

2014-10-28 Thread Kay Schenk
We've noticed many more items filed as "issues" lately that fall into the category of user support. In an effort to track down the origination of this, it seems our Help Wanted page on the planning wiki might be a contributing factor: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Help+Wante

Re: Can open Open office add?

2014-10-28 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Darren Darren Myers schrieb: What list? what do you mean by list... a list of numbers, a list of programming flaws, pseudo code structure. This mailing list. The mailing list does not allow attachments. You should ask on https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ There you can attach a f

RE: Can open Open office add?

2014-10-28 Thread Darren Myers
What list? what do you mean by list... a list of numbers, a list of programming flaws, pseudo code structure. There is a significant issue with the basic function which doesn't allow me or a few people I have spoken to tonight work for them. Just admit the sum function doesn't work, it c

Re: Can open Open office add?

2014-10-28 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Darren Myers wrote: > Nope categorically incorrect, I'm afraid your wrong and you need to look > at the code again. There are serious bugs within OpenOffice, doesn't anyone > test the basics? > > attached is a screen shot and it clearly shows the issue. A calcula

RE: Can open Open office add?

2014-10-28 Thread Darren Myers
Nope categorically incorrect, I'm afraid your wrong and you need to look at the code again. There are serious bugs within OpenOffice, doesn't anyone test the basics? attached is a screen shot and it clearly shows the issue. A calculation of different numbers showing clearly the formula which

Re: color names in Math

2014-10-28 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Kay, Kay Schenk schrieb: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Kay, Kay Schenk schrieb: Hi Regina -- I saw that you had already made some changes yesterday re i118191 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=118191 I have not investigated color renderin

RE: English dictionary (Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary) - OOPS

2014-10-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I am even more confusing than usual. Alphonso thinks that the English dictionary is broken, but it does not appear to be and the breakage may be related to some problem in the user profile, as Andrea reported. I confused this simple case with others where the remedy is also to delete the user

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-28 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi Malte, > On 2014-10 -28, at 04:22, Malte Timmermann wrote: > > Hi Louis, > > I am not interested in being interviewed in a podcast, but if you have > specific questions, just let me know. Private email to my web.de account, as > I don't follow the mails on the AOO/LO lists on a regular bas

Re: color names in Math

2014-10-28 Thread Kay Schenk
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Kay, > > Kay Schenk schrieb: > >> >> Hi Regina -- >> >> I saw that you had already made some changes yesterday re i118191 >> >> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=118191 >> >> I have not investigated color renderings in AO

RE: English dictionary (Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary)

2014-10-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
There is no wrong answer here. The question is, do you want to fix your immediate problem, or are you willing to wait until there is something in the installer to destroy your profile every time you install an update, or something else? Andrea described the state of affairs and the options for

Re: Importing translations into Pootle (Re: Proposal: AOO 4.1.2)

2014-10-28 Thread Kay Schenk
On 10/28/2014 01:28 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 27/10/14 21:33, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >>> Well I think we added all languages on Pootle where we see activities or >>> interest in working on the translation. Why should we add languages >>> where nobody is working on? I

Re: ODF Plugfest #10, London, 2014-12-08/09

2014-10-28 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 2014-10 -26, at 11:35, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > On 25/10/2014 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >> http://plugfest.opendocumentformat.org/ >> An opportunity for the primary implementers of ODF to get together, >> explore some test cases, and provide a little advocacy for what the >> local civil a

Re: English dictionary (Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary)

2014-10-28 Thread Alphonso Whitfield III
Wrong answer.The end user should not have to fix anything it should work when the product is downloaded or the application should not be included in the download. It worked without difficulty prior to the latest version being released. I sent true end users to download the software , they

Re: oooforum status?

2014-10-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
As a low-level administrator, I am (in theory) able to download a SQL dump of the data. Sadly, the provided admin interface is unable to move the amount of data required. The next obvious choice is to login to the machine in question and directly dump the data from the backend DB. Only one pe

Re: Importing translations into Pootle (Re: Proposal: AOO 4.1.2)

2014-10-28 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 27/10/14 21:33, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> Well I think we added all languages on Pootle where we see activities or >> interest in working on the translation. Why should we add languages >> where nobody is working on? I don't get it. > > That was an example, but still it

Re: 2015 -- Our 30th Anniversary

2014-10-28 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi Louis, I am not interested in being interviewed in a podcast, but if you have specific questions, just let me know. Private email to my web.de account, as I don't follow the mails on the AOO/LO lists on a regular base, except for the security lists. And you are right wrt many early develo