[Libreoffice] Discuss "Easy_Hacks: Remove Sheet F rom File"?

2010-11-19 Thread Joe Smith
Is this the place to discuss this proposal? I don't see any discussion on the wiki page itself. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks#Remove_.27Sheet_From_File27_menu_item_from_Calc I, for one, find Insert > Sheet From File a useful shortcut for importing data from a text

Re: [Libreoffice] Discuss "Easy_Hacks: Remove Sheet From File"?

2010-11-22 Thread Joe Smith
Michael Meeks writes: > Hmm; Kohei - did you add this one ? Christoph - do you have a thought > or two ? Kohei added this one, if I read the wiki page history right. > > If Calc had a clean way to import data from a text file, then I'd love to > > see > > this go, but right now, it woul

Re: [Libreoffice] Discuss "Easy_Hacks: Remove Sheet From File"?

2010-11-22 Thread Joe Smith
Kohei Yoshida writes: > ... I'd really really like to see it implemented in > a less confusing fashion. > > The current implementation just re-uses the same dialog from the Insert > - Sheet... menu, with some default values filled. But you can still > switch back to "New Sheet" radio button whi

Re: [Libreoffice] Discuss"Easy_Hacks: Re move Sheet From File"?

2010-11-23 Thread Joe Smith
Joe Smith writes: > > Michael Meeks writes: > ... > > So - can you expand on what such a clean way might look like ? > > Yikes! Don't get me started > > ... Ok, I've calmed down a bit. Maybe there's an interim solution that would simply c

Re: [Libreoffice] Discuss"Easy_Hacks : Remove Sheet From File"?

2010-11-23 Thread Joe Smith
Joe Smith writes: > ... > If anyone is interested, I can throw out some thoughts, but I'm not enough of > a > UI designer to propose any concrete solution. Actually, after looking closely at the Insert > Sheet dialog, I do have a proposal. I just don't know if it

[Libreoffice] [Crazy Ideas] Discuss "Replace regexp parser with std library"

2010-11-26 Thread Joe Smith
Anyone interested in discussing this "crazy idea"? Replace home-grown regexp parser with some std library http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crazy_Ideas#Replace_home-grown_regexp_parser_with_some_std_library I've been thinking about this since I found my first bug in OOo's oddball reg

Re: [Libreoffice] [Crazy Ideas] Discuss

2010-11-29 Thread Joe Smith
On 11/29/2010 06:39 PM, John LeMoyne Castle wrote: ... However, looking at textsearch.cxx in Open Grok -- http://opengrok.go-oo.org/xref/libs-gui/i18npool/source/search/textsearch.cxx#165 -- can see this comment before the various types of calls to a search routine: // use transliteration here,

[Libreoffice] Fedora-specific hyperlink bug?

2010-11-30 Thread Joe Smith
Can someone running LibO on Fedora try and reproduce this bug: document hyperlink with utf-8 characters fails export to PDF http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=115788 So far no one else can reproduce it. Hardly a showstopper, but it would be an embarrassing regression if it happens

Re: [Libreoffice] LO status bar annoyances

2010-11-30 Thread Joe Smith
On 11/30/2010 09:54 AM, Kohei Yoshida wrote: Sorry I have to disagree there. I'm the one who put that icon there, and the reason for that was to have a visually obvious way to tell whether or not the document is currently modified. A lot of people were using the save icon status for that purpo

Re: [Libreoffice] [Crazy Ideas] Discuss

2010-11-30 Thread Joe Smith
On 11/29/2010 07:48 PM, Mattias Johnsson wrote: On 30 November 2010 11:34, Joe Smith wrote: I was also having a lot of trouble learning anything from running OOo under gdb. Gdb was acting weird and I couldn't step through the code and poke around. I ended up trying to do it by adding a p

Re: [Libreoffice] Fedora-specific hyperlink bug?

2010-11-30 Thread Joe Smith
On 11/30/2010 04:09 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 10:36 -0500, Joe Smith wrote: Can someone running LibO on Fedora try and reproduce this bug: document hyperlink with utf-8 characters fails export to PDF http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=115788 So far no one

Re: [Libreoffice] [PUSHED] Re: Fedora-specific hyperlink bug?

2010-12-02 Thread Joe Smith
On 12/02/2010 06:23 AM, Caolán McNamara wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 17:58 -0500, Joe Smith wrote: Is there something else I can do here to follow up? A report on fdo? I took care of this for LibreOffice Fantastic! Thanks, Caolán. http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Libreoffice] [LibreOffice] [Patch] Fix for i#108228: Bool has negative sign when used in Writer formula expression

2010-12-09 Thread Joe Smith
Mattias Johnsson writes: > > Fix for http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=108228. > > ... It > turns out the reason for this is buried in sbxdef.hxx, where we have > > // The numeric values of TRUE and FALSE > enum SbxBOOL { SbxFALSE = 0, SbxTRUE = -1 }; > > ... Hey, that's my bug

Re: [Libreoffice] Better wording for 'Update links' question

2010-12-22 Thread Joe Smith
On 12/21/2010 12:09 PM, Jan Holesovsky wrote: Hi, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32548 The bug says: when I open a certain .odp document, I get a pop-up question asking "Update all links? Yes/No" Anybody who knows this functionality, can you please provide a better wording? ;-)

Re: [Libreoffice] Better wording for 'Update links' question

2010-12-23 Thread Joe Smith
On 12/22/2010 03:11 PM, Kohei Yoshida wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 13:06 -0500, Joe Smith wrote: ... Believe me, I'm no fan of this cryptic prompt, but I'm afraid this won't be an improvement. The wording of the prompt is not the primary problem. I'm not sure if I agree w