[tdf-discuss] Re: Can we replace "Floppy Disk"

2012-01-12 Thread Harold Fuchs
t with the curved arrow pointing *into* it. Or would that be too confusing to the eye? Different colour(s)? -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscri

[tdf-discuss] Re: A marketing lesson!

2011-12-21 Thread Harold Fuchs
Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. One possibility is that the seller provides [multi-seat] installation and/or training for the price it charges for the software. The seller might also offer some amount of support for the price with, perhaps, more support for more money. -- Haro

[tdf-discuss] Re: Status of .docX etc.

2011-12-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
"e-letter" wrote in message news:CAET1fe6jeCR1769v-0yaDhUMw78v0pH4P2O+0T1jeg9B8=e...@mail.gmail.com... On 13/12/2011, Harold Fuchs wrote: Would someone please either explain or point me at a detailed explanation of the current status of LO vis à vis the "new" MS off

[tdf-discuss] Re: Re: Re: overall communication guidelines andreply-tomangling

2011-12-13 Thread Harold Fuchs
"Friedrich Strohmaier" wrote in message news:4ed91461.9050...@bits-fritz.de... Hi Harold, *, Am 30.11.2011 11:59 schrieb Harold Fuchs: I think the idea that a simple "Reply" should only go the OP is very poor: Thanks for uncovering other contributor's real n

[tdf-discuss] Status of .docX etc.

2011-12-13 Thread Harold Fuchs
f them? If not, which? What plans are there for read/import? Schedule? What plans are there for write/export? Schedule? I Googled but none of the documents I found were dated so it's impossible to know if they are current. -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-ma

[tdf-discuss] Re: Re: overall communication guidelines and reply-tomangling

2011-11-30 Thread Harold Fuchs
haviour, use a *forum* where the questioner can "subscribe" to only his/her question threads Perhaps for "expert" groups like Dev, the idea *might* be OK but for the lists designed for general support I really don't think it is sensible. Harold Fuchs

[tdf-discuss] Unsupported Components (@Karl Morten Ramberg )

2011-10-03 Thread Harold Fuchs
not currently doing *anything* to support/enhance these components or *only* that there is no work being done on them in relation to HTML5? Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-list

[tdf-discuss] OT: Swiss to Ban PowerPoint?

2011-07-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
From The Times Referendum to ban PowerPoint planned Marie Tourres and Charles Bremner Paris July 12 2011 12:01AM Switzerland could become the first country to outlaw what a campaigner there sees as a tyranny that blights the modern world: the PowerPoint presentation. Matthias Poehm, the

[tdf-discuss] Re: Oracle contributes OOo Code to Apache Software Foundation'sIncubator

2011-06-03 Thread Harold Fuchs
Oh, and by the way, get rid of the asinine name "LibreOffice" which half the world can't pronounce and which three quarters of the world doesn't understand the meaning of. -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfounda

[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice Math: "There is no"

2011-05-04 Thread Harold Fuchs
provided I first choose the OpenSymbol font. Harold Fuchs London -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messag

[tdf-discuss] Re: Forums - A Different Question

2011-04-29 Thread Harold Fuchs
"Carl Symons" wrote in message news:banlktimoffhjrfh0cxmucafqkqjjna2...@mail.gmail.com... On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: Please, why does the LibreOffice web page link to the forums for OpenOffice.org ? The current LO Help web page at http://www.libreoffi

[tdf-discuss] Forums - A Different Question

2011-04-28 Thread Harold Fuchs
Please, why does the LibreOffice web page link to the forums for OpenOffice.org ? The current LO Help web page at http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/ has two links to OOo forums: - http://www.oooforum.org/ - http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ Harold Fuchs London, England

[tdf-discuss] Re: The fast evolving shape of documents

2011-04-21 Thread Harold Fuchs
"drew" wrote in message news:1303393014.20515.26.camel@sybil-gnome... Hi, Just thought I'd pass along a reference to this article: http://drdobbs.com/tools/229400040 "To make electronic forms of documents an adequate, perhaps superior replacement for printed documents, we need three lev

[tdf-discuss] Re: Request for Libre Office on Spoon

2011-04-20 Thread Harold Fuchs
SLO? If the document contains pictures or sound/video clips, where are those? -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.

[tdf-discuss] Who Handles LO Portable?

2011-02-12 Thread Harold Fuchs
LO, please someone explain exactly where the LO bug reporter is. -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***

[tdf-discuss] Re: Re: Suppression of Blank Lines in Addresses inLabels and Envelopes from Data Base

2011-02-09 Thread Harold Fuchs
rm whether you wish to send the files to "Printer" or "File". I have hesitated to show this as a bug, because the program is not wrong, it just does not do enough. Is that a bug? Alan It's not a bug in the software, it's a bug in the *design* of

[tdf-discuss] Re: Computer Magazine cover CDs

2011-02-08 Thread Harold Fuchs
n such CDs/DVDs! -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [tdf-discuss] 恭禧發財

2011-02-03 Thread Harold Fuchs
ave *no* Chinese of any description (Mandarin, Cantonese, ...) whatsoever so, if it's a pun or similar, please explain. Oh, and to James Wilde, thank you very much for Google translator; wonderful! -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@d

[tdf-discuss] OpenOffice.org in the Cloud? LibreOffice Next?

2011-02-01 Thread Harold Fuchs
See http://www.silicon.com/technology/software/2011/01/14/photos-oracle-cloud-office-in-the-flesh-39746808/?s_cid=787 -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss

[tdf-discuss] Portable Version - Peaceful Coexistence?

2011-01-31 Thread Harold Fuchs
Will the new portable version of LO coexist peacefully on the same USB stick as OOo portable? Or must I choose? Harold Fuchs -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this

[tdf-discuss] Re: Bring up libreoffice.org website to world *now*

2010-12-08 Thread Harold Fuchs
"Stefan Weigel" wrote in message news:4cff602c.7060...@bildungskreis.org... Am 08.12.2010 10:49, schrieb Harold Fuchs: By "static site" you mean http://www.documentfoundation.org ? By "live site" you mean http://www.libreoffice.org ? These two links point at

Re: [tdf-discuss] Bring up libreoffice.org website to world *now*

2010-12-08 Thread Harold Fuchs
e would be much more motivating than playing with something that has *test* in its name :) By "static site" you mean http://www.documentfoundation.org ? By "live site" you mean http://www.libreoffice.org ? These two links point at the same place. ??? -- Harold Fuchs Londo

[tdf-discuss] No Documentation???

2010-12-06 Thread Harold Fuchs
sions (nor any way for a newbie to discover that such things exist) There is no MD5 sum for the file to be downloaded What am I doing wrong, please? -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://www.documentfoundatio

[tdf-discuss] Re: Re: A proposal for effective, volunteer-friendlyuser support in LibreOffice

2010-11-24 Thread Harold Fuchs
er and software industries need to find a better way. Passwords are NOT the answer. -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***

[tdf-discuss] Re: Google now integrates with MSO, what about Libre/OO?

2010-11-23 Thread Harold Fuchs
ox. Yes, extensions are great but it is nevertheless extremely frustrating when an upgrade to FF comes along that invalidates an extension one has been relying on for quite a while. LO really must try to avoid this if it is to rely on extensions in the future. The same points apply to templates,

[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice should have own "LibreOfficeFont"

2010-11-20 Thread Harold Fuchs
What other information is it sending? To whom is the data being sent? To whom are they sending the data? What other uses are being made of the data? Did I approve those uses? When? How? -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org P

[tdf-discuss] Re: Re: Why LO mobile version should not be ignored

2010-11-20 Thread Harold Fuchs
-stop. A portable version would (a) have all the features and (b) be a first, albeit small step towards modularisation because it would free the code from dependencies on things like the Windows Registry. -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to

[tdf-discuss] Re: Why LO mobile version should not be ignored

2010-11-18 Thread Harold Fuchs
Symbian folk if they'd do a mobile LibO? Can't hurt to ask ... -- Harold Fuchs London, England That would be a great idea. -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html Archive: http://

[tdf-discuss] Re: Re: Why LO mobile version should not be ignored

2010-11-18 Thread Harold Fuchs
Has anyone "in authority" asked the PortableApps folk if they'd do a portable LibO? Can't hurt to ask ... Has anyone "in authority" asked the Android and/or Apple and/or Symbian folk if they'd do a mobile LibO? Can't hurt to ask ... -- Harold Fuchs Lon

[tdf-discuss] Re: Why LO mobile version should not be ignored

2010-11-17 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 17/11/2010 22:24, jonathon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/2010 06:54 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote: What guarantees do cloud service operators give about the security of any document I may store on its server? Personal cloud servers: The cloud that _you_ run in

[tdf-discuss] Re: Why LO mobile version should not be ignored

2010-11-17 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 17/11/2010 21:45, Mirek M. wrote: 2010/11/17 Harold Fuchs On 17/11/2010 18:54, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 17/11/2010 18:22, jonathon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/2010 04:25 PM, Mirek M. wrote: I'd say that a web app should have higher priority

[tdf-discuss] Re: Why LO mobile version should not be ignored

2010-11-17 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 17/11/2010 18:54, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 17/11/2010 18:22, jonathon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/17/2010 04:25 PM, Mirek M. wrote: I'd say that a web app should have higher priority here, This should be an independent project. In an ideal world, the

[tdf-discuss] Re: Why LO mobile version should not be ignored

2010-11-17 Thread Harold Fuchs
oud computing. When they do I don't think web apps will prove all that popular. Call me a Luddite if you like but ... -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- Unsubscribe instructions: Email to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines: http://netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html A

Re: [tdf-discuss] Idea: Help publication utils in Writer and export and import

2010-10-28 Thread Harold Fuchs
; and sometimes connections are slow and/or expensive. There is really very little that is more frustrating than to be told to connect to xyz.com for help with what should be a purely local process such as editing a document. In a hotel room for tomorrow's key meeting, for example. --

Re: [tdf-discuss] Who is Funding LibO?

2010-10-26 Thread Harold Fuchs
would be a pain in the neck to switch again in a few months time. But for institutions, on which the success of the project depends, it would be a fairly major catastrophe. -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe

Re: [tdf-discuss] Thninking about a user focused web forum - anduser support in general

2010-10-26 Thread Harold Fuchs
spond to simpler questions but over quite a wide range of topics, rather than answering complex questions in more specialised fields. The option I describe lets me more easily find things to which I can contribute. Please, if it's possible ... -- Harold Fuchs London,

[tdf-discuss] Who is Funding LibO?

2010-10-25 Thread Harold Fuchs
Would someone please explain where the money is coming from to fund LibO? Where is it expected to come from in the future, assuming Oracle will not join? -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives

Re: [tdf-discuss] unsubscribed posters

2010-10-21 Thread Harold Fuchs
ar takes the registered user directly to that forum with the "automatically send me e-mail answers" option pre-set. If the user didn't register LibO then that Support button simply displays text about registering and getting support. -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- E-mail to

[tdf-discuss] Adoption of LibreOffice

2010-10-21 Thread Harold Fuchs
s they already do, from somewhere I haven't found??? -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-21 Thread Harold Fuchs
rating non-subbed posts/posters. that would widely open the door for spamming, and backscatter stuff, effectively leading to very soonish blacklisting of our machine. Didn't seem to happen with the OOo users@ list. Hopefully the moderators will be bright enough to recognise and reject sp

Re: [tdf-discuss] Supporting customers (ordinary users)

2010-10-21 Thread Harold Fuchs
d way too uninteresting for me to wanting to follow it any longer. And that is a bad sign. Sebastian P.S. Sorry for replying to this mail, I did not mean to pick someone out, this is just a general impression. P.P.S. Will shut up now. -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- E-mail to discuss+h...@docu

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-21 Thread Harold Fuchs
ng to very soonish blacklisting of our machine. Florian Never happened to the OOo users@ list. -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/di

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-21 Thread Harold Fuchs
d the like, to ensure the message really comes from GMANE? Florian I think you'll find that *all* messages coming from Gmane have "X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/"; in the headers. See http://gmane.org/conv.php for details. -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- E-mail to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-20 Thread Harold Fuchs
the Reply-to header not be fixed (by the list manager software or by an associated script) to include the OP if that OP is not subscribed? -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at ht

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-20 Thread Harold Fuchs
for "free" support. Why not let people post questions [to the users@ list or to the forum, I don't care] via a button on the LibO toolbar, with responses [or a message containing a link to a response] to that question *only* by e-mail to the user's nominated address? -

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-20 Thread Harold Fuchs
"Harold Fuchs" wrote in message news:i9m7k5$ut...@dough.gmane.org... "Larry Gusaas" wrote in message news:i9lgl4$a5...@dough.gmane.org... On 2010/10/19 4:27 PM Jon Hamkins wrote: On 10/19/2010 10:55 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: Wrong. The purpose of gmane is to receiv

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-20 Thread Harold Fuchs
sual, you will get back a confirmation request to which you must reply. 2. Subscribe the same e-mail address to your Gmane news account. As I say, if this gets through then the above works. I'm going to wait and see if it does get through before commenting further. -- Harold Fuchs London, Engla

[tdf-discuss] Donations

2010-10-19 Thread Harold Fuchs
I just noticed that the TDF "Donations" web page at http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/ gives bank account details for something called "Openoffice.org Deutschland e.V." Does this mean the money goes to Oracle? -- Harold Fuchs London, England --

Re: [tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-19 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 19 October 2010 13:37, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2010-10-19 3:52 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > > When will it be possible to send messages to the TDF mail lists via > > Gmane *without* having to be subscribed to the mail lists > > themselves? Currently, to use Gmane you nee

[tdf-discuss] Send Messages via Gmane?

2010-10-19 Thread Harold Fuchs
insists that you can't send messages via it without being subscribed to it. This instantly kills the "spam prevention" argument that I have seen put forward. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please do *not* reply to my personal e-mail address -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfou

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-13 Thread Harold Fuchs
nted copies of the OOo user guides: > > http://www.friendsofopendocument.com/newsite/?page_id=181 > > > > HI, > > Well I a bit lost here, doesn't http://www.ooodev.org/ have to do this, > as a matter of law? > > Drew > > Is the difference that by law

[tdf-discuss] Important Information in Wrong Place

2010-10-12 Thread Harold Fuchs
are. Perhaps include details of the forum there too. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please do *not* reply to my personal e-mail address -- To unsubscribe, e-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archi

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-12 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 12 October 2010 12:38, Volker Merschmann wrote: > Hi, > > 2010/10/12 Harold Fuchs : > > I just noticed that the TDF "Donations" web page at > > http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/ gives bank account > details > > for something called "

Re: [tdf-discuss] Survey|Opinion - LibreOffice Install and Update

2010-10-12 Thread Harold Fuchs
ny Admins can install the software for the company's users. 8. I reserve the right to add to this list ;-) 9. A properly documented MD5 (or equivalent) checking procedure, with pointers to a free MD5 checker. (I used my reserved right to add to my list ...) -- Harold Fuchs London, En

[tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-12 Thread Harold Fuchs
I just noticed that the TDF "Donations" web page at http://www.documentfoundation.org/contribution/ gives bank account details for something called "Openoffice.org Deutschland e.V." Does this mean the money goes to Oracle? -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please do *not*

Re: [tdf-discuss] Technical Support via Gmane?

2010-10-09 Thread Harold Fuchs
d. The > group will work as soon as the first message arrived. > > Florian > > > Am 09.10.2010 um 10:51 schrieb Harold Fuchs: > > > I saw a message that the technical support mail list > > us...@libreoffice.orghas been set up. > > > > I went to http://ww

[tdf-discuss] Technical Support via Gmane?

2010-10-09 Thread Harold Fuchs
and got "no such group". What am I missing, please? -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please do *not* reply to my personal e-mail address -- To unsubscribe, e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot b

Re: [tdf-discuss] [DOC] User docs: planning ahead

2010-10-05 Thread Harold Fuchs
product for nothing, maybe they'll donate something to the pool. > > But I put my faith in 1 and 2. > > //James > > > In the immortal words of Jon Stewart: "I Disagree With You, But I'm Pretty Sure You're Not Hitler" . What is Microsoft's definitio

Re: [tdf-discuss] Support For LibreOffice?

2010-10-04 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 4 October 2010 12:01, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2010-10-04 4:35 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > > Perhaps I've missed a thread somewhere but how do users of > > LibreOffice get technical support? > > > > I noticed that someone called Sam (i...@libreofficeforum

[tdf-discuss] Support For LibreOffice?

2010-10-04 Thread Harold Fuchs
Perhaps I've missed a thread somewhere but how do users of LibreOffice get technical support? I noticed that someone called Sam (i...@libreofficeforum.org) set up a forum at http://libreofficeforum.org/ but is that "the way"? -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please do *not* reply

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: [WEB] interim mailing list structuring - a proposal

2010-10-02 Thread Harold Fuchs
" is a fairly > > Best regards > > Bernhard > > PS: Add other important tags to this list please... > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to > discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived an

[tdf-discuss] Installing LibreOffice on Windows

2010-09-30 Thread Harold Fuchs
heed to it. == begin conversation == Original Message ---- From: Harold Fuchs To: disc...@openoffice.org Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:55:58 +0100 > When you install LibreOffice Under Windows: > 1. Does it overwrite your OOo installation? Yes. Even though it installs in