Hi Mattias, > On Jun 23, 2022, at 04:03, Matthias Seidel <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > Yes, that is an old bug becoming more visible on macOS because some > extensions were updated recently. > > Just as a quick "work around": Please disable the option for "Online > Update" in your AOO preferences.
Just to clarify: the Online Update has a section to (O) check for updates and a different section to (O) automatically download updates. I assume you are advising users to disable automatic downloads but keep check for updates? Regards Craig > > Regards, > > Matthias > > Am 23.06.22 um 12:09 schrieb PCS: >> CORRECTION, the Extension Update glitch froze a spreadsheet I had put aside >> in the Dock and forgotten was open when I tested with a couple of new >> documents. It was successfully recovered but it is still a serious glitch. >> >> ________ >> >> >> I have used LibreOffice on Linux fairly often over the past 12 years and >> occasionally on the Mac (my main computer), but I prefer OpenOffice on the >> Mac. >> >> LO seems to be more fully featured than OO and some of its features are >> better implemented than the same ones in OO, but overall I find OO easier to >> use (for what I use it for, others may disagree) despite a couple of >> annoying issues (the worst is the RH side panel popping out unwanted if you >> happen to click on its opening button when scrolling up or down or when >> resizing a window: the activator should be out of the way, in the top menu >> panel, or at least have an option to move it out of the way, maybe some >> people actually like the Jack-in-a-box). The less frequent updates of OO is >> a plus also, obviously we all want to be up to date with security but other >> than that I see no need for frequent updates of a bread-and-butter >> application that does the job you need it to do, unless there is a genuine >> improvement, like stopping the RH panel from being a Jack-in-the-box, or if >> it needs to be updated for compatibility with an OS update. >> >> So overall I am content to stay with OO rather than move to LO (I do have LO >> installed, but I rarely use it), and unless OO and LO can be successfully >> merged, with options to allow users to configure the merged app to work the >> way they want to work, I would not want to see OO “wound down and shuttered”. >> >> All Flaviu Tamas needs to do, after all, is to uninstall OO and use LO, >> problem solved for him without denying others what for them is a useful >> alternative. Who is he anyway, to try to dictate that we should all use the >> app he prefers? That seems pretty arrogant to me, he should not assume that >> he knows what is best for me better than I do. He is probably like my >> father, who used to say, when he owned a 1928 Dodge, “If you can’t afford a >> Dodge, dodge a Ford”, then changed it to, “If you can’t afford a Ford, dodge >> a Dodge” when he bought a 1953 Ford Customline, i.e. "I am such an expert >> that whatever I buy / have / use is automatically what everyone else should >> buy / have / use. Flaviu should just use the app he/she prefers and let >> others continue to have access to the one they prefer, and I am surprised >> that nobody else has told him/her that already. >> >> There is an annoying glitch in the recent OO Mac update that seems to make >> the case for not updating without good reason. When an OO document is opened >> now, the green update arrow appears in the main menu bar, but when you click >> on it it doesn’t work properly. For a while it opened an initially >> transparent Extension Manager window offering a Spelling dictionary when you >> clicked it visible, but clicking on it froze the application and it had to >> be Force Quit and reopened. The app's data recovery feature minimised data >> loss, but it was still a nuisance. I have been ignoring the green arrow to >> circumvent the problem, but have just tried it again (with a new document, >> so as not to risk compromising a real one), and now the problem seems to be >> half fixed, clicking on the green arrow in the main menu bar doesn’t do >> anything, not even offer a genuine extension update, so at least the app no >> longer freezes. But this is a good example of why I am normally a late >> updater, because new updates of the OS or an app often have glitches in them >> that I would much rather have discovered by other people than discover >> myself, hence my dislike of LO’s much more frequent updates, I haven’t had >> problems with them, but the more frequent they are the greater is the risk, >> so I prefer less frequent and better tested updates, and the glitch in >> recent OO update is a significant disappointment. >> >> PCS >> >> >> >>> On 23 Jun 2022, at 5:16 pm, Frank McIsaac <snapa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Well said FC >>> >>> Regards >>> Snapafun - Frank&Jan >>> Rock'n'Rolling Forever >>> >>> On Thu, 23 Jun 2022, 6:20 pm Fernando Cassia, <fcas...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 22/06/2022, Flaviu Tamas <m...@flaviutamas.com.invalid> wrote: >>>>> Why hasn't OpenOffice been wound down & shuttered? >>>>> >>>>> The existence of the website makes users assume that OpenOffice is >>>>> still actively being developed >>>> It is. >>>> >>>>> when those users would be much better >>>>> served migrating to LibreOffice. >>>> Speak for yourself. I for one wouldn' t touch LO with a 10ft pole. >>>> >>>>> I've seen this conversation several times over the past few years in >>>>> various open source communities. >>>> Cows see a lot of trains pass by while pasturing, and that doesn' t >>>> make the cows train engineers. >>>> >>>>> At the very least, a prominent notice that users should use >>>>> LibreOffice on the main OpenOffice site would be nice. >>>> Please, go away, >>>> >>>> FC >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>>> >>>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> > Craig L Russell c...@apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
