Re: Win64 port making progress

On Sat, Jan 4, 2025, 15:48 Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM Matthias Seidel < > matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi Damjan, > >> > >> Am 02.01.25 um 21:44 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic: > >> >

Re: Regarding OpenOffice the Moribund.

On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 at 16:51, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Just now I got a PM referring to the same topic. > > Seems like another campaign like we have seen it for decades... > > Matthias > Yes, same on Twitter where I dared to mention OpenOffice as an alternative to Microsoft Office on a ZDNet pos

Re: Back to the Future Initiative

On Mon, 1 Apr 2024 at 14:34, Craig Russell wrote: > Just one question: Will this work with my Apple II? > > I've been keeping it around but there is not much that runs on it... > > Thanks, > Craig Yes just install Apple Java SE 6.0 (8 bit edition). Use that instead of Oracle Java or all hell wi

Re: Back to the Future Initiative

Excellent. Specially OS/2 for PowerPC 🤣🤣 On Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 03:46 Arrigo Marchiori wrote: > Dear All, > > The Apache OpenOffice Development Team is proud to announce that the > next releases will introduce an important change: a text-only user > interface. > > Read more: > https://openoffice.a

Re: Para site

On Fri, Jan 12, 2024, 13:41 Bidouille wrote: > Hello, > > Fake site with > https://open-office.fr/ > > Did we have a process to fight this? > It links to the official site at the bottom. Downloads are served from the official site. It clearly says it's a French language site to serve the francop

Re: unfortunately I have to say goodbye to the AOO project

Thanks for all your contributions and have a happy new year, Jörg FC On 27/12/2021, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello everyone, > > unfortunately I have to say goodbye to the AOO project, the reasons are > family related. > > I would like to thank everyone involved in AOO and OOo for the last 16 > yea

Re: Apache OpenOffice available in the Microsoft Store on Windows 10

In Spanish language Windows 10, searching for "Open Office" on the Microsoft Store shows a version dated 2019 from "PackagerExpress.com" selling for $149 (I suppose ARS not USD). Screenshot https://app.box.com/s/rhnm38j71hohtwml3353eb2lkmzfeqku FC On 24/11/2021, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi, > >

Re: OpenOffice needs better UI

On Tue., 31 Aug. 2021, 09:44 Hao Wang, wrote: > Thanks for introducing me to the new term Ribbon. Looks like that's what > I'm aiming for. > In addition to the UI redesign, is it possible for us to develop a > web-page based office suite similar to Google docs or Office 365 ? > One of the reason

Re: Big Sur 4.1.x core dumps

On 30/12/2020, Steve Lubbs wrote: > Hi Jim, > > There are professional, non-trivial Native OSX apps that don't run on > Big Sur. I wrote about all the software that had issues with BigSur. it´s a long list https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201208/13454345846/apples-failure-to-ensure-backwar

Re: Policy to deal with old web content - Archiving pages?

On Tue., 29 Dec. 2020, 05:55 Jörg Schmidt, wrote: > > > > Much easier, and imho functionally sufficient, would be a footer on each > archive page informing that this is an archive page plus a link to the > start page (web and wiki) of the current pages. > I like the model used by Mozilla here:

Re: Does AOO 4.1.8 run under macOS Big Sur?

On 28/11/2020, Bidouille wrote: > >> Seems to be "Big Sur" only, see: >> https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=128415 This is the third piece of open source software that worked on Catalina but was suddenly broken on BigSur: VirtualBox 6.1 and Netbeans also had to be modified to address api c

Re: Delete the mailing list general-es

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020, 15:11 Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Shutting down a list breaks a link between some (many?) users and the > OpenOffice project. Agree If, instead, we switch the list -and other > low-activity lists- to "members only" mode, the moderator will have just > minimal activity and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 released

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 12:00 Jim Jagielski wrote: > I posted a tweet from our official twitter account. > Congrats for this release. You might want to know that MSFT is back to its dirty tricks and prevents the signed installer from running, courtesy of "Smartscreen" part of "Microsoft Defender".

Re: IBM Plex font

On 8/9/18, Marcus wrote: > > even when it looks nice, is great with scaling and also compatible with > the AL, I'm wondering what a good purpose could be? Adding a new font > without any reason would just increase the install size about some > megabytes (when I see this right at [1]). > > [1] http

Re: Bad news regarding future Java use?

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 6:36 AM Pedro Lino wrote: > > People reading something, jumping to conclusions, and freaking out. Move > along, nothing to see here... > > > I don't think so. Maybe there is a good reason why another office suite > moved all the scripting to Python. > I don't want a broken

Re: Bad news regarding future Java use?

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 11:27 AM Pedro Lino wrote: > Hi all > > If I understand the notice correctly this will not be a problem for > personal use at home but all OpenOffice features requiring Java can not be > used within a company unless the company buys a Java license... > > I hope I misundersto

Re: Resigning as RM for 4.1.x

On 10/10/17, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 11:54:54 -0400 > Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> Have we ever released a X.Y.Za? > > > Does it matter? There is a first time for everything. Why throw all the > 4.1.4 work away and start again with 4.1.5? > Or call it 4.1.4.1 > > Rory +1 FC -

Re: Java 9 32-bit

On 10/3/17, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > Now what: > 1. Ship our own builds of OpenJDK, in matching bitness. Do the licences > (GPL for JVM, GPL-with-classpath-exception for class library) allow us to? > 2. Drop Windows as a platform, since it's the only affected platform (*nix > users usually instal

Re: Eclipse vs other IDEs (was: Re: Ide for Open Office (was Building OO))

On 7/19/17, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > What is so "very basic" about Eclipse? It's an excellent IDE, among the > best C++ IDEs I ever used, and the only IDE I use to develop AOO. > > I only used Visual Studio a little, and it seemed very good at the .NET > languages, but poor at C++. What does Visu

Re: What is the oldest Linux that AOO can run on? Is there a policy wrt baseline libraries/distro release?

was looking for!. FC On 1/19/17, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 13/01/2017 Fernando Cassia wrote: >> I wonder what are the older Linux version that AOO-current (whatever >> is the latest version) will run on? > > Version 4.1.3 is built on CentOS 5 with glibc 2.5. > >>

What is the oldest Linux that AOO can run on? Is there a policy wrt baseline libraries/distro release?

I wonder what are the older Linux version that AOO-current (whatever is the latest version) will run on? I'm not concerned too much about kernel but glibc which is a common cause of hassles. And I'm trying to create a VM with the oldest possible, still supported Linux version, with AOO on it. Cen

Re: The AOO build system

On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: > 6. Do we still build for OS/2? :-) (Sorry, I'm sentimental old fool). The OO.o OS/2 builds have ALWAYS been done by OS/2 enthusiasts, not the main project (not OO.o nor AOO). The last "officially supported" release done for OS/2 was StarO

Re: Inquiries

[This somehow landed on the dev list] On 8/28/16, John Yoko Ono Lennon wrote: > Does Apache have > Old English font available? > How stable is it? > I have used WPS but it always collapses. > Upgrade costs? Apache Open Office uses whatever fonts you have installed on your system. Once you have a

Re: Merge with LibreOffice?

On 8/3/16, Christoph Reg wrote: > Greetings, dear AOO community. > > Please note first that this message is not supposed to be flaimbait or > trolling of any kind. It is. Have a nice day. FC - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubs

Re: Is it time to shut down this effort?

On 7/23/16, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > It can't hurt, but I don't see it having any more success than other > efforts that have been made over the last 4 - 5 years. > > Keith Let's shut down the project altogether, because, why bother. It's doomed to failure. That's what you're saying. Why don't

Re: Cross Script vulnerabilities in AOo Extensions?

On 4/7/16, toki wrote: > All: > > In reading > http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/04/noscript-and-other-popular-firefox-add-ons-open-millions-to-new-attack/ > is the same type of vulnerability is possible with AOo extensions? > > jonathon "By piggybacking off the capabilities of trusted third-p

Re: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO

On 2/6/16, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GYP_(software) > > BSD license, written in Python, used by Chrpmium so Windows should be > supported too. > > If it doesn't help, sorry about that... just wanted to add my $0.02 > FC I meant Chromi

Re: Thoughts on a new build system for AOO

On 2/5/16, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Hi Patricia .. good point about IDE's. > > We have a dilemma here: > > On one side ~80% of our users are Windows-based so it would certainly > be ideal to use an environment where we keep both our users and our > developers in sync. Unfortunately the majority of o

Re: OpenOffice and SourceForge: cruel wedding

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:54 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: > Patience! Let's see what Roberto has to say Something has been puzzling me lately. What if this is delliberate?. I mean, people setting up these "fake AOO" sites and then joining the SF.net advertisers network only to hurt AOO?. Can an indiv

Re: OpenOffice and SourceForge: cruel wedding

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > Is it possible for SourceForge to implement an active blocking if any ad > that has "Office" or "OpenOffice" anywhere in the content? It's not as simple as that, some evildoers create ad buttons that show the word "download" or a "play" butt

Re: OpenOffice and SourceForge: cruel wedding

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:36 AM, Jan Høydahl wrote: > Apache’s mirrors already have the binaries, and should handle the load. It has been argued repeatedly that they wouldn't. FC

Re: [QUESTION] Getting to AOO for Java (AOO4J)?

On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > There has been suggestion, and some expressed support, for AOO becoming a > Java application. > +1 I think it would be nice. Previous work on Java based office suites show promise and that this is possible. Cases in point: 1. ThinkFre

Re: AOO -> LO or MS O

"After LibreOffice came out, Oracle released one version of Oracle Open Office before deciding that the project wasn’t worth the effort . It laid off the programmers and gave the code an

Re: StarWriter for DOS needed

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Jan Eric Hogh wrote: > I recently registered at the OO-forum and asked if someone could send me a > download link for this really old piece of software (StarWriter for DOS, > may also be called StarWriter compact 2.0 for DOS). > One of the moderators told me to em

Re: Question about your product

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Rose Langer wrote: > She asked me about it but i was unable to answer a question. She wonders > about privacy of your product. Her question basicly was wether you or > anyone else can see what she writes? Like it is somehow send or saved > without her knowing? > I

Re: Re: Breach of confidentiality

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Wouldnt that just breach more confidentiality agreements? Person sends message with confidentiality tagline to a mailing list, issues legal challenge to shut down the whole World Wide Web. News at 11:00 FC

Re: Need to integrate OpenOffice writer in java project

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Sharoon D. Dcunha < sharoon.dcu...@laurusis.com> wrote: > This is Sharoon from Laurus Infosystems Bangalore, India. I am glad to > know that your derivatives like StarOffice are being integrated to certain > products and solutions > StarOffice no longer exists. A

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > * One conceivable drawback is that Kivy also uses "Kivy Language, for > creating sophisticated user interfaces[,]" though it does not seem to be > required for creating naive UIs. Kivy is in Python and their conference > presentations s

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Yuri Dario wrote: > This will have the positive side effect of removing all platform code > from VCL since OS/2, Windows, *unix have QT ports. > > This will add one more layer inside operations, since QT will map to > underlyng native API, but I don't think this

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Yuri Dario wrote: > having written or updated most of the OS/2 code in VCL project, I have > some experience with it. > > I'm not enterint the debate QT-yes/QT-no, I will only offer a > developer point of view. > > We can simply use QT like an existing operanting

Re: [OT] RE: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > The sales success of Microsoft Office and Office 365 suggest that > "(almost) everyone" is inaccurate IMHO for me this is not (and has never been) an valid argument. People "Buy MS Office" because: 1. they have tons of documents writ

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Maintaining the independently-developed VCL GUI framework is an > important concern. (Then there's UNO as a cross-platform COM > derivative.) > There's two possible approaches that I could see, long-term. #1 Separating the VCL GUI F

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I resonate with these remarks (two extracts below). I particularly want > to acknowledge all of the work that Kay Schenk and several others have put > into making AOO more approachable by new developers. Ideed, "Innovation" for chang

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:57 PM, jan i wrote: > > I have been working with Qt for many years and have in one project made a > converter from something similar to our UI descriptions to a Qt > environment. I have only experience as an end user of poweted QT apps to the windows platform, and I ca

Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > oweted I intended to write "ported" FC

Re: SourceForge and commercial ads - continued

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Roberto Galoppini < roberto.galopp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually none of our direct advertisers ask us to deliver similar ads, nor > we would allow them to do that. > Unfortunately advertising networks like Google allow that to happen, and > that's where the prob

Re: SourceForge and commercial ads - continued

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Bernard Marcelly wrote: > I see a blue square indicated : updatechecker. > When I click it I get another panel from http://www.marbiz.net saying (in > french) : > Searching for OpenOffice latest version > Download button > And then the Conditions : > chapter 0

Re: Concerns about the AOO community

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Mateusz Zasuwik wrote: > > People (users) are worrying about OpenOffice status so I would like to just > rectify some opinions floating around. Many says that IBM alone stop > believing in OpenOffice. You confirm that IBM is doing less. Wiki is not > updated for a

Re: Export to swf of presentations = useless for uploading to Youtube

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > SLIDESHOW of the presentation, it´s now SWF video or a Flash video by > any means... sorry, typo, I mean´t ¨It´s NOT swf video or Flash video by any means..." FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the trut

Re: Export to swf of presentations = useless for uploading to Youtube

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > While I appreciate offers of help, that sidesteps the question of how > a presentation of 13+ MB can be turned into a 903K SWF file. What is > the SWF export good for, then? Just to answer myself... I get it now, export to SWF

Re: Export to swf of presentations = useless for uploading to Youtube

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:35 AM, FR web forum wrote: > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=62260&hilit=youtube While I appreciate offers of help, that sidesteps the question of how a presentation of 13+ MB can be turned into a 903K SWF file. What is the SWF export good for,

Export to swf of presentations = useless for uploading to Youtube

Hi there, Apache OpenOffice 4.1 here, WinXP64. (yes, xp64, long story, no I won't upgrade). I created a 64-slides long presentation using AOO. I need this converted to video to upload to Youtube. I read somewhere that you could export to SWF and that Youtube accepts SWF uploads. So I used the Ex

Re: [DISCUSS] possible blog topic -- AOO and Linux: a marriage made in heaven! :)

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > * An interesting academic study would be to evaluate the effect Google has > had in popularizing open standard formats, like ODF, which for > unconscionably long it referred to as "openoffice" format, as well as in > popularizing Linux,

Re: Softpedia: Apache OpenOffice Downloaded More than 100 Million Times, but Not on Linux

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > > So what am I missing here? Could be many things, from worst to less bad: Payola, bias, prejudice, copy-paste journalism repeating the "facts" from the Other Side, ignorance... ;) FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth beco

Re: Adding "from SourceForge" to download page

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > If we had a simple, clean page, I think users would be less confused. > The more we load up the page with text and links, trying to be > helpful, the more users will be overwhelmed and doubt themselves. I > think we're far past the over-saturati

Re: Adding "from SourceForge" to download page

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Roberto Galoppini < roberto.galopp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Or maybe a simple "Downloads served by SourceForge, trusted for open > source"? Yes, I understand that, but I'm fearing the Joe Averages won't get the meaning of "served by" or read it and continue readi

Re: Adding "from SourceForge" to download page

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > It would be ideal if you can make a pop-up blurb/baloon and when you hover > the mouse over "what is sourceforge" explaining what it is. I think theselook pretty nice http://www.beauscott.com/examples/help_balloons/doc/e

Re: Adding "from SourceForge" to download page

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > All of our client downloads including product binaries, extensions, and > templates are served from SourceForge. I would suggest a statement at the > top of the complete Download column that says something like -- > "Trusted downloads served b

Re: Cost savings by using a thinner typeface

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > Interesting story: > > > http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/27/living/student-money-saving-typeface-garamond-schools/index.html?c=us&page=0 > http://fcw.com/articles/1998/09/27/dod-agency-sheds-the-paper-trail.aspx "DOD's paperless contracting goals

Re: More annoying FUD

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > Of course, we shouldn't judge their release criteria. That is their > business (and their users) not ours. But when they make false > comparisons in a table, comparing apples-to-oranges, then we ought to > note it. LIARS, that's the word. FC

Re: Openoffice is being sold on ebay

On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 9:34 PM, luis e wrote: > I will try to contact ebay to let them know about this issue. > > Regards > And this is wrong because? Even if it were a GPL license piece of software (it itsn't) it's perfectly fine to sell open source software. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sel

Re: openoffice fuck u

2013/11/19 Rory O'Farrell > The world is full of people who believe that using a computer excuses them > from any necessity of rational thought. The world is getting dumber every passing day. And Google and Microsoft are partially to blame with the dumbing-down of user interfaces. FC -- Durin

Re: ComputerWorld: Apache OpenOffice 4 vs. LibreOffice 4.1

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > interesting read, it contains still some misleading info and missed to > say where the sidebar feature in LO comes from but anyway. > Interesting how forks jump the version number to a higher number than the parent projects to mislead unsusp

Re: AOO on Nexus 7 and the Kim Komando Show

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: > Given the number of Android devices out there and growing I can see a time > where if its not editable there it won't be worth considering. > I think it's worth educationg consumers that "tablet form factor" does not necessarily mean "Android O

Re: Open office

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > rollApp charges now? How sad. No they don't, as it's beta. But I'd expect them to eventually do. How else would they fund it?. Banners? The whole SAAS move is about charging a monthly or yearly subscription for things that before were

Re: Open office

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > See this offering to run OpenOffice on iPad. Be warned that it's a SERVICE > that you must pay for. I forgot to say that it's currently in beta, and that you can sign up (for now) free of charge. FC -- During ti

Re: Open office

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Alan wrote: > Are there any plans to make soft wear available for I Pad? > What is "Soft wear", Alan?. Sounds like garmends that are soft to the touch. Oh, you must mean "software". > Alan T. > See this offering to run OpenOffice on iPad. Be warned that it's a

Re: Una nueva fuente de descargas de software - http://www.openoffice.org/es/

2013/10/2 anita : La Lista a la que escribiste es una lista en ingles. > Encontré su sitio web mientras buscaba software, y encontré su sitio web muy > interesante J Es un proyecto de software libre. Las descargas se hacen desde los mirrors de Sourceforge. > Note que están dando el enlace a

Re: A question about StarBasic

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 2:47 AM, Clarence GUO wrote: > I'm totally green at StarBasic and VBA I suggest you read this. Since StarOffice was OpenOffice.org -w some addons- which is now AOO, it is totally relevant. http://toolkit.its.isu.edu/Documentation/StarOffice/StarOffice_Basic_Guide_en-US.PD

Re: [RELEASE]: propose snapshot build for AOO 4.0.1

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > > http://people.apache.org/~jsc/developer-snapshots/snapshot/ > > The wiki is not yet updated and I won't have time to do it. Thanks! What is the difference between Windows and Windows2 subdir contents? FC -- During times of Universal D

Re: [RELEASE]: new snapshot build for AOO 4.0.1

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > but, I would >> also add, you are running it at a very unusual screen resolution... Dont be confused by the large Firefox buttons in the window in the back (1st screenshot), thats a special Firefox theme that allows easier naviga

Re: [RELEASE]: new snapshot build for AOO 4.0.1

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Is your screen resolution really 800x500? In that case you are running > OpenOffice below the system requirements of 1024x768 > http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/sys_reqs_aoo40.html but, I would > also add, you are running it at a v

Re: [RELEASE]: new snapshot build for AOO 4.0.1

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > > we have prepared a new snapshot build for AOO 4.0.1 for Windows, MacOS > and Linux based on the SNAPSHOT tag. > > The SNAPSHOT tag rev. 1518670 is based on revision 1518667 on branch AOO401 First minor visual annoyance. I clicked on the

Re: [RELEASE]: new snapshot build for AOO 4.0.1

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > > The wiki page is updated and for Linux you can find archive builds as > well directly in the directory (not linked via the wiki). Thanks for the heads up , Jürgen. Can you point us to the download dir? Im not sure what wiki or what page

Re: Slashdot Article

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Simple Good wrote: > MS Office uses much less resources. This is a > bad decision on the part of OpenOffice developers. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/office-system-requirements-FX102921529.aspx# For home Office Home & Student 2013 COMPONENT REQUIREME

Re: [RELEASE]: preparation for AOO 4.0.1

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > But if > we change it it annoys potentially other users. The question is what > would be the correct and most often wanted default. What is the purpose of showing margins, and by extension, seeing text smaller, (less zoom level)?. Is there

Re: [RELEASE]: preparation for AOO 4.0.1

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > In preparation for an AOO 4.0.1 release I have first created a AOO400 > tag based on revision 1503704. I have also created a new branch AOO401 > based on branch AOO400 based on the head revision of the branch. > > I noticed that Yuri checked

Re: [discuss] drop support for Java 5 and Java 6 for Windows

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:47 AM, janI wrote: > question is do we also want to force our customers > to use java 1.7 ? Yes :) On Windows Java 6 is EOL'd. On Linux, most distros ship OpenJDK7 already which is Java 1.7 One of the few remaining OpenJDK6 holdouts announced the switch to OpenJDK7 htt

Re: [discuss] drop support for Java 5 and Java 6 for Windows

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Peter Eberlein wrote: > > If Java 6 has been dropped and Java 7 wasn't found on the system, wouldn't > it be better to replace the general MsgBox "There was no Java environment > found" by "Java 7 or higher wasn't found"? > Otherwise people who know that they have 1

Re: [discuss] drop support for Java 5 and Java 6 for Windows

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > My arguements for a drop of the Java 5 and Java 6 support on Windows are: > - JRE 5 is quite old and no longer officially available > - JRE 6 is no longer officially available > - JRE 6 has certain security risks and the corresponding

Re: Release 4.0.0 binaries storage and SF

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Henk P. Penning wrote: > I would like to (properly) exclude dist/openoffice/4.0.0/binaries/ > from the mirrors. This directory now only contains checksums > (.md5's, .asc's and .sha256's) ; and on the mirrors only empty > directories (because checksums are e

Re: Use AOO under IBM AIX?

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > IBM is a big company, and I don't have regular context with any AIX > people right now. I did a decade ago when I was working on C++ port > of Apache Xalan, the XSLT processor. Getting it to work on AIX was a > key requirement. Of course, that

Re: Use AOO under IBM AIX?

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Looks really challenging. Thanks for your little insight. > > Marcus I suggest you guys ask the IBMers who did the Aix Toolbox project http://sourceforge.net/projects/aixtoolbox/ . They have a mailing list @ sourceforge (but no files hosted

Re: Use AOO under IBM AIX?

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Any AOO binary cannot be installed on AIX as it is not optimized and > compiled for this operating system. That means first at least one developer > has to port AOO to AIX. I remember the good old days when AIX sales reps touted its ability t

Re: Wrong OS detection on download page

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Hagar Delest wrote: > My system is Xubuntu 13.04 64bit and I use the beta version of FF. > > Hagar > Hi Hagar, You dont say if you downloaded FF using your distro s package manager, or if you went to mozilla.org and manually downloaded it. That makes a huge diff

Re: Article on the Register

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > > We don't, but I do track a list of the most-common misconceptions that I read By pure chance I read this quote today, which I think fits perfectly (I hope it's historically correct) "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a c

Re: Article on the Register

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > completely the now open Sorry the above line should be "completely IGNORED Netrexx" FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell

Re: Article on the Register

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > I think just ignore it. Why help promote El Reg? > > Look at the numbers: You're right that devs shouldn't lose any sleep over what a news site says. However as someone who has been on the other side of the counter and knows how the relat

Re: Article on the Register

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: > I just read this article [1] on the Register: "Apache devs: 'We'll ship no > OpenOffice before its time'" > > It is sad that it has the usual misinformation: > You should find the email of the publication's news editor and write a polite ye

Re: Build AOO in Win7 Troubles

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Juergen Schmidt wrote: > we use Cygwin as build env only and compile with the Microsoft compiler. > We have no runtime dependency to Cygwin. Thanks! that's good to know. FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durant

Re: Build AOO in Win7 Troubles

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Raphael Bircher wrote: > Maybe Cygwin is not happy with the "" I thought the general concensus (generally speaking wrt porting Linux FOSS to Win32, not sure wrt AOO) was that MinGW32 / MinGW64 was preferred over Cygwin as generated binaries do not depend on the a

Re: Build AOO in Win7 Troubles

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ > ? or perhaps MinGw32 http://mingwrep.sourceforge.net/ FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la ver

Re: Build AOO in Win7 Troubles

On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Ivan Fuentes wrote: > What do i need to do to fix the "no"s?? http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ ? FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Re

Re: [VOTE] Logo selection for Apache OpenOffice 4.0

Chris Rottensteiner -- HERE IS THE BALLOT: My ranked preferences for the AOO 4.0 logo are: 1st Choice: None of the above 2nd Choice: Logo-04 3rd Choice: Logo-34 4th Choice: Logo-36 5th Choice: Logo-26 --

Re: Find a better name for "sidebar"?

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > > Please also see the difference and the potential advantage for our program - > a sidebar is just a sidebar but a <...our special name for *our* sidebar...> > is a little bit more, is the original. +1 FC -

Re: Results from AOO 4.0 Logo Poll

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > The survey ran for a week,and received over 5000 responses. I wrote > up the results, along with some charts, and put them here: > > http://survey.openoffice.org/reports/aoo40-logo-poll/ > When I wanted to vote, it was over already. I personall

Re: [CODE][PROPOSAL]: AOO 4.0 getting rid of the 3 layer office, part 1

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On demand I can provide test builds if there are people interested to > help with testing. > > Juergen > Great work. May I suggest you upload such test builds to some cloud drive (GDrive, dropbox, etc) and share the url to the list? TIA!

Re: questions about Base---do we need an embedded DB?

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > My ordered preference would be 1, 3 yeah, great *sarcasm*, let's add another bullet point to a microsoft presentation titled 'how Microsoft Office is better than OpenOfffice.org" OO.o lacks database? check!" My opinion is that maybe Sun pu

Re: Adabase...

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > It seems we have a fair amount of code devoted to dealing with AdaBase. > And, it seems, this used to ship with OpenOffice (well Star Office > actually). I can't find a lot of activity surrounding this lately. It´s ADABAS, not Adabase. http://en

Re: 4.0 and loss of backward compatibility for extensions with toolbar

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > My impression was that even if we made no changes, from the user's > perspective, they would lose all extensions. This is due to the > change in base directory for the profile. So all extensions would be > lost and need to be reinstalled. So th

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