Re: MLA Format for students

MLA is one of thousands of referencing formats. Unreasonable to push one over another for ODF support. Instead, *Zotero* or *Mendeley* projects or even Thompson-Reuters *EndNote* provide functional support for both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice ODF documents. http://www.zotero.org/ http://www

Re: Markmail archives discontinued

Andrea Pescetti-2 wrote > ... > > This is a pity because Markmail offered a nice interface and good > statistics. Some lists, like the users list, are unaffected and still > archived properly. For the discontinued lists, the mail-archive.com copy > still works well. As does the Nabble hosting

Re: [VOTE] Dennis Hamilton as new AOO Chair.

> Please vote [X] +1, I want Dennis Hamilton as new Chair Non-binding, but Dennis is a sound choice for AOO's PMC Chair -- View this message in context: http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/VOTE-Dennis-Hamilton-as-new-AOO-Chair-tp4675509p4675554.html Sent from the Development mailing list

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

Andrea Pescetti-2 wrote > Who of the two candidates do you prefer to replace Andrea Pescetti as > the OpenOffice project PMC Chair? > [ ] Dennis E. Hamilton (orcmid) > [ ] Jan Iversen (jani) Both excellent candidates, thank you both! but, my vote--non-binding-- is: [X] Dennis E. Hamilton (orcmid

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

Andrea Pescetti-2 wrote > Do you approve that, in his capacity as the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair, > Andrea Pescetti submits a resolution to the Board asking to be replaced > by Louis Suárez-Potts as the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair? > [ ] +1 Yes > [ ] 0 Abstain > [ ] -1 No -1 No (non-binding)

Re: Java 32 Redux

> I've added a background color and icon. The text was also It certainly won't be missed now... -- View this message in context: http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/Java-32-Redux-tp4670709p4670758.html Sent from the Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Java 32

jonathon-3 wrote > On 11/12/14 11:13, Andreas Säger wrote: > >> A Java runtime environment (JRE) is required to use the following >> functionality: >> >> *Wizards*, namely: >> >> *Macros* >> >> *Extensions* >> >> Finding keywords in the F1 help depends on Java. >> >> *Database access* > > Do

RE: Can open Open office add?

@Darren, *, On Windows 7 sp1, 64-bit en-US with the 4.1.1 release AOO411m6(Build:9775) - Rev. 1617669 2014-08-13 09:06:54 (Mi, 13 Aug 2014) Simply not having any issues with a newly created Calc sheet and =sum() ranges that skip rows as you describe. I've uploaded the .ods file for review on N

Stale static text on AOO download page

The downloads landing page ( http://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html ) has some rather stale text, see stale_AOO_download_text . Could someone with permissions touch it up. Regards, Stuart -- View this

Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)

Jürgen Schmidt-3 wrote >[ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 >[ ] 0 Don't care >[ ] -1 Do not release this package because... AOO410m18(Build:9764) - Rev. 1589052 2014-04-22 11:43:54 (Di, 22 Apr 2014) +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 -- View

Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC)

This is my official (non-binding) -1 vote for a release build based on r1583666 --Justification-- Since the r1583666 based spin, several substantial issues have been corrected on trunk only r1583671 -- affects apparent quality of the IAccessible2 based AT tools support (i125573) r1583988/r158517

RE: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC)

> -Original Message- > From: Andre Fischer > Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 8:57 AM > > On 03.04.2014 09:56, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate > > (RC) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. > > > Another problem came up that

Re: R: the right Accessibility configuration

Deyla, Actually Windows accessibility in Apache OpenOffice no longer makes any use of the Java Accessibility Bridge to interface to the Java Accessibility API installed with a JRE. A native accessibility bridge for Windows has been implemented based on the IAccessible2 API. Apparently JAWS and O

RE: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta (RC)

+1 > > Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta > > The vote starts now and will be open until: > >Sunday evening, 9 March: 2014-03-09 11:00pm UTC. > > But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like > to provide a release that is suppo

Bugzilla: User Sam Jennings

@Rainer, From: Rainer Bielefeld Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 9:54 AM Subject: Bugzilla: User Sam Jennings >may be someone feels able to explain to above mentioned user how to use >Bugzilla in an appropriate way? Or wants to block user Sam Jenning's >Bugzilla account "samjenni...@hotmail.com

Re: Speech recognition with openoffice

This has been addressed multiple times by the development community. https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=6104 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=70567 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=71542 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=84997 https://issues.apache

RE: New SNAPSHOT available (based on r1560772)

Put it in the 'doesn't it figure' category, but can I solicit support for another build cycle for the all language feature freeze SNAPSHOT. There is a major flaw in the IAccessible2 code, i124095, that got patched by Mick Curran and Steve Yin with revision 1561587, and is available in en-US an

RE: Web accessibility guidelines -- which ones?

Rob, *, >... However, there was a confusing (to me) number of >authorities for accessibility standards. It is really pretty simple--WCAG 2.0 is the gold standard for Web content, and is applicable to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). National and International Stand

Issue of Key events being handled twice, impacting accessibility with loss of object focus

The errant double handling of cursor key events is a problem for Accessibility support of assistive technologies where program focus is being shifted away from the active object; e.g. writer - selected text for formatting, calc - cell being formated, etc. Current issues in BZ: bug 122363

Re: ia2 branch sucessfully integrated with trunk as rev 1542312

Sorry, those links are: i107914 winA11y and i123643 Stuart -- View this message in context: http://openoffice.2283327.n4.

ia2 branch sucessfully integrated with trunk as rev 1542312

Steve Yin's ia2 branch has been successfully merged into trunk as rev 1542312, nightly Windows buildbot build for 16 Nov #837 is functional with a native Windows bridge provided by IAccessible2. Please report any issues against AOO bugzilla issues i107914 and winA11y for any Windows accessibility

Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1 to Bring Enhanced Accessibility Support

Rob, Great news! Great blog post--subtle ;-) On a side bar, I see that Herbert and Oliver are hard at work correcting build issues for Steve's rev 1541847 integration done yesterday, getting the new IAccessible2 bridge to build cleanly on trunk is obviously now the priority. But when someone ge

Re: [Accessibility] IA2 Integration proposal

Jean-Phillipe, Removal of earlier revisions of the ia2 branch may have corrupted the MSAA libraries. Have you unregistered UAccCOM.dll with a regsvr32.exe /U command, and have you tried re-registering the oleacc.dll and oleaut32.dll? Additional notes in issue aoo#123640

Re: ia2 Buildbot needs attention

Steve, Herbert We've got another hang-up on the ia2 branch--3 days with no build of r1539225. Looks like this might be related to removal of SeaMonkey . >From the ia2 297 build error logs: Stuart

Re: Re : [Call For QA Volunteers][Accessibility] AOO IAccessible2 testing work

@Jean-Philippe The ia2 branch builds are on the daily Buildbot, current is rev 1539225 . Issues are being recorded and worked withing AOO Bugzilla and for the branch are being

Re: [Call For QA Volunteers][Accessibility] AOO IAccessible2 testing work

Rob, Yes please! Add the General/Accessibility component. Perhaps with a component description of "Issues related to Assistive Technologies, Accessibility and interface automation (e.g. a11y, IAccessibile2, NX Accessibility)". Stuart -- View this message in context: http://openoffice.2283327

Re: ia2 Buildbot needs attention

Actually, looked a little further in the log, and this may need the dev's attention. Errors are in the most recently modified modules of the branch. Steve? -- View this message in context: http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/ia2-Buildbot-needs-attention-tp4655304p4655305.html Sent from t

ia2 Buildbot needs attention

The ia2 branch buildbot hung on initial build of the rev 1538382 build today---"Failed build.pl --all" It needs some attention. Looked at the logs something in the ioctl. -- View this message in context: http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/ia2-Buildbot-needs-attention-tp4655304.html Sent

Re: [Accessibility] Calc and Impress got complete ia2 support -- looking forware to an (aoo-w7ia2) Buildbot build of r1527279

Steve, Steve Yin wrote > The compile errors of the branch ia2 were fixed. And the branch was > synchronized with the latest trunk. > -- > Best Regards, > > Steve Yin Wow, excellent that for your r1527279 build of the branch you've again synchronized with AOO trunk! With any luck we'll have a c

Re: [Accessibility] Calc and Impress got complete ia2 support -- (aoo-w7ia2) Buildbot currently failing

Steve, Great news! Once we have a useable build... I just checked and the current r1526782 based ia2 branch is failing snapshot Buildbot for "svn under cygwin" So the (aoo-w7ia2) Buildbot for the ia2 branch again needs some attention. Stuart -- View this message in context: http://openo

Re: IA2 Branch r1519381 IAccessible2 testing - failed Buildbot

Andrew, Steve Look to again have a clean and installable build of the IA2 branch -- r1519381 (wef 2013-09-02)-- to start working against. Thanks! Stuart -- View this message in context: http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/IA2-Branch-r1519381-IAccessible2-testing-failed-Buildbot-tp465202

IA2 Branch r1519381 IAccessible2 testing - failed Buildbot

Steve Y. has merged the AOO TRUNK into the IA2 branch SVN as r1519381. Anxious to resume QA work on IAccessibile2 implementation. Unfortunately, while it looks like the IA2 Buildbot job picked up the change, it is failing with this error: 2 module(s): apr curl need(s) to be rebu

RE: Bug 121014 - Fidelity issues

Do you like a title of "Fidelity issues - incorrect rendering of ODF or MS formats" for the task? From: Rainer Bielefeld Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:25 PM To: q...@openoffice.apache.org Cc: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> "dev@openoffice.apache.org" S

RE: Updating BZ versions for next releases

All reasonable changes that should improve the QA process using BZ, especially the "last confirmed on" 4.0.0--just will need to be kept up going forward. My +1 ps.s thanks for asking this time ;-) p.p.s a special CC for you Rainer so you are aware, here is the thread link in Nabble http://open

Re: IA2 branch testing of r1484083 merege with trunk

Jamie, James Teh wrote > I've since discovered that I can only reproduce this if I run Writer > directly; i.e. via the icon named "OpenOffice Writer" in the Start Menu > or by running swriter.exe. If I run the main OpenOffice application > (i.e. the icon named "OpenOffice" in the Start Menu or

Re: IA2 branch testing of r1484083 merege with trunk

Jamie, So a reboot did fix the IAccessible2 behavior of AOO ia2 branch, following reboot I did not have to run AOO as Administrator to get IAccessible2 rendering. I then upgraded back to NVDA 2013.1.1 and now was getting good IAccessible2 rendering with that as well. Also, no problems before or

Re: IA2 branch testing of r1484083 merege with trunk

Jamie, Cleared off all LibreOffice and OpenOffice and then installed the revision 1484083 ia2 branch build. Two things jumped out: 1) I had to back out NVDA from 2013.1, and install a copy of NVDA 2012.3.1 to get useable IAccessible2 rendering 2) also, I had to run the OpenOffice ia2 branch as

Re: IA2 branch testing of r1484083 merege with trunk

janI wrote > On 1 August 2013 17:49, V Stuart Foote < > VStuart.Foote@ > > wrote: > >> Meanwhile, for Steve Yin, any chance of pushing the current ia2 branch >> back >> out to SVN, or better perfrom a merge with trunk and posting it. Having >> the bui

Re: IA2 branch testing of r1484083 merege with trunk

Jamie, I'll post an archived IA2 branch build of r1484083 up, and send you a PM for the ftp link a little latter. Getting the Buildbot to start running to completion, even if with the 1484083 revision would be useful. Meanwhile, for Steve Yin, any chance of pushing the current ia2 branch back ou

Support for Windows 7 (and 8) Jump list

Windows 7 (and now 8) have WPF support for Start menu and Task bar feature commonly know as Jump lists. They allow organization of frequent and recent tasks and documents into "Jump lists" associated with applications when pinned to the Start menu or the Task bar. Apache OpenOffice 4.0 does not im

RE: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

+1 From: Jürgen Schmidt [jogischm...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 2:40 AM this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. ... [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOf

Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC)

+1 -- buildbot nightlys have been solid for some time. Still a number of resolved showstoppers ought to be verified, if anyone is inclined to help knock a few out: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&namedcmd=4.0.0_release_blocker%2B%2C%20Resolved&Bugzilla_restrictlogin=on&sha

Re: IA2 branch testing of r1484083 merege with trunk

Jamie, Steve Yin and folks do not push their ia2 branch dev work out very frequently. But I am sure they've been moving it along. Just wish it were more transparent so we could catch any IAccessible2 or A11y standards issues earlier in the rework. Anyhow, the last build we had to work against wa

Re: Blog about sidebar

Andre, Reads really well and I like your treatment of sidebar decks & panels as alternatives to toolbars & dialogs--you don't hammer the old GUI, just describe benefits of implementing the sidebar GUI. Only editorial feedback would be that in your "We need your input" segment, as a branding issu

RE: IA2 branch testing of r1484083 merege with trunk

Sorry, horrible typo, make that ... it should have all of the work done on Sidebar through r1483767 so _THERE IS NO_ wasted effort there... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands,

IA2 branch testing of r1484083 merege with trunk

So noticed that Steve Yin has done a merge of IA2 with trunk as rev 1484083, assuming it makes it out onto the Buildbot for tomorrow's nightly, this build will need some love from the QA side. Fortunately, it should have all of the work done on Sidebar through r1483767 so wasted effort there.

Buildbot and Unofficial Developer Builds -- whats up?

Sorry for the cross post, but this rubs on both the QA and Dev sides of the project. So, I understand that we are mid-way through, a full regression testing of the 4.0 branch at Rev 1478648. But has the project actively stopped the building of dailys, and have the cognizant developers been aske

RE: Start AOO 4.0 Full Regression Test - missing keyboard navigation and accelerators in test cases

Shenfeng, Yuzhen, Liuping, Rob Took a moment and browsed through the TestLink test cases for the Full Regression and earlier test plans against the trunk and sidebar branch. Unless I completely missed seeing it, one noticeable omission from the test cases in general is a lack keyboard based n

Re: Apache Open Office IAccessible2 QA ia2 branch builds

Jamie, Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:21:02 +1000 From: James Teh mailto:ja...@nvaccess.org>> To: NVDA screen reader development Subject: Re: [NVDA-dev] Apache Open Office IAccessible2 QA ia2 branch builds >Hi Stuart, >Thanks for letting us know. Initial testing is very promising. I'm >

RE: [Call For QA Volunteers] AOO UI IAccessible2 testing work

From: V Stuart Foote Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 12:05 PM >And here is a generic BZ search for accessibility issues >https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&resolution=---&short_desc=msaa%20accessible%20iaccessible%20iaccessible2%20accessibility&a

RE: [Call For QA Volunteers] AOO UI IAccessible2 testing work

Steve, Nothing substantive yet in working through the Windows build of the ia2 branch. Should we build against Linux and OSX and be testing for impact on ATK/AT-SPI and NSAccessibility User Interface? And, with QA and testing of the ia2 branch proceeding what mechanism should folks use for rep

RE: [Call For QA Volunteers] AOO UI IAccessible2 testing work

From: V Stuart Foote Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:25 PM > >Going to try removing JRE 1.7u11 and backing up to 1.6u39 to see if that has >an impact, but if IAccessibile2 is >functional--should not need a JRE, right? So an uninstall of JRE 1.7u11 did set everything right with

RE: [Call For QA Volunteers] AOO UI IAccessible2 testing work

Steve, Ariel Installed Ariel's posted ia2 branch build "Run as Administrator", and also captured a verbose install log. AOO350m1(Build:9611) - Rev. 1441343 2013-02-04 20:38:26 -0300 (lun, 04 feb 2013) Windows 7 sp1 64-bit Oracle Java JRE 1.7u11 Verified the UaccCOM.dll is registered at: HKE

Re: [Call For QA Volunteers] AOO UI IAccessible2 testing work

Steve, Great work! Hope to be able to get to work on QA of the ia2 branch soon. >From: Steve Yin [mailto:steve.yin@gmail.com] >Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 7:10 PM >Yes, the branch "ia2" is ready for QA now. The earlier the >power users involve, the faster project progress we can expect.

No Accessibility API support with the Java SE 7 Accessibility API, problem with JAB 2.0.3 and passing event focus

Have an open, but unconfirmed, bug against Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121510 Can confirm it, but unable to edit the Bugzilla status. Also, I just verified it remains an issue with the 4.0 Developer builds, r1400866 Probably related to Oracle's work on