Hi Craig, Am 24.06.22 um 01:12 schrieb Craig Russell: > 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?
No, "Check for updates automatically" should be disabled to prevent problems on macOS. Regards, Matthias > > 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 >
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