Spell-checking broken on first build

2021-03-27 Thread Keith Curtis
Dear all, I can't get the automatic spell-checking to work after doing a fresh git clone / build on (Arch) Linux. My autogen.sh is simply: --without-java --without-help The UI lets me set the text to English (which was the default) but when I go to Tools-Spelling, there are no language choices

[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: vcl/source

2018-05-25 Thread Keith Curtis
vcl/source/window/toolbox2.cxx |2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) New commits: commit 758d2099ae281e270ef014711b693580ab27206b Author: Keith Curtis <keit...@gmail.com> Date: Tue May 22 03:35:37 2018 -0400 Remove unnecessary code from ae37972cd25117d467d34ee8591c21dcbb

[tdf-discuss] Realtime collaboration without a browser, CMU Link Grammar checker

2018-04-18 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi all, I have two ideas to consider. 1. Have you thought about creating a plugin for realtime collaboration without running in a browser? I'd love to be able to hand out LibreOffice invites to other people to work on shared documents, or even connecting to a Google server, but continuing to do

[tdf-discuss] Re: Fwd: AI in Microsoft Office

2018-02-06 Thread Keith Curtis
I recently discovered that the Turing Institute is supposed to become the UK's national research laboratory for AI. I've also seen they are supporters of FOSS. Perhaps people in that Institute (or others) could be convinced to do some practical research projects in LibreOffice. They have interest

[tdf-discuss] Fwd: AI in Microsoft Office

2018-01-19 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi all, I came across a Microsoft AI video that I thought was interesting and food for thought here. The link shows the demo of AI features in Office: https://youtu.be/H_X1ZuM6ZJU?t=1h12m27s It shows an auto-designer, a better grammar checker, Intranet search and easy copy/paste, nice pen

[jira] [Updated] (ARROW-1311) python hangs after write a few parquet tables

2017-08-03 Thread Keith Curtis (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1311?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Keith Curtis updated ARROW-1311: Description: I had a program to read some csv files (a few million rows each, 9 columns

[jira] [Updated] (ARROW-1311) python hangs after write a few parquet tables

2017-08-03 Thread Keith Curtis (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1311?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Keith Curtis updated ARROW-1311: Attachment: thread-apply-all-bt-full.txt Okay, to get the new backtrace, attached, I had to install

[jira] [Commented] (ARROW-1311) python hangs after write a few parquet tables

2017-08-02 Thread Keith Curtis (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1311?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16111831#comment-16111831 ] Keith Curtis commented on ARROW-1311: - I re-ran my script with pyarrow-0.5.0.post2; that seemed

[jira] [Commented] (ARROW-1311) python hangs after write a few parquet tables

2017-08-02 Thread Keith Curtis (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1311?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16111815#comment-16111815 ] Keith Curtis commented on ARROW-1311: - Ok, I'll re-try with post2 > python hangs after write a

[jira] [Commented] (ARROW-1311) python hangs after write a few parquet tables

2017-08-02 Thread Keith Curtis (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1311?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16111813#comment-16111813 ] Keith Curtis commented on ARROW-1311: - Hi, I think I have the updated one: $ pip install --upgrade

[jira] [Comment Edited] (ARROW-1311) python hangs after write a few parquet tables

2017-08-02 Thread Keith Curtis (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1311?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16111787#comment-16111787 ] Keith Curtis edited comment on ARROW-1311 at 8/2/17 10:00 PM: -- I re-ran my

[jira] [Commented] (ARROW-1311) python hangs after write a few parquet tables

2017-08-02 Thread Keith Curtis (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1311?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel=16111787#comment-16111787 ] Keith Curtis commented on ARROW-1311: - I re-ran my code, and and have a revised function def

[jira] [Updated] (ARROW-1311) python hangs after write a few parquet tables

2017-08-02 Thread Keith Curtis (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1311?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Keith Curtis updated ARROW-1311: Attachment: backtrace.txt Stack trace from gdb when Python appeared to be hung. > python ha

[jira] [Created] (ARROW-1311) python hangs after write a few parquet tables

2017-08-01 Thread Keith Curtis (JIRA)
Keith Curtis created ARROW-1311: --- Summary: python hangs after write a few parquet tables Key: ARROW-1311 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1311 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type

[jira] [Created] (ARROW-1311) python hangs after write a few parquet tables

2017-08-01 Thread Keith Curtis (JIRA)
Keith Curtis created ARROW-1311: --- Summary: python hangs after write a few parquet tables Key: ARROW-1311 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1311 Project: Apache Arrow Issue Type

Re: RFC: using system font size instead of querying HiDPI stuff

2015-01-28 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi Noel, I think it would be quite reasonable to change the code to also enable the HiDPI behavior if the system font is a certain size. I support your change of direction, but the current code works quite well by detecting DPI from the OS / DE and so I would only override that logic it the

[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/66/8166/1'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/66/8166/3'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/66/8166/2'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/43/8743/1'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/49/8749/1'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/49/8749/2'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/68/8168/1'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/37/8637/2'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/37/8637/4'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/37/8637/1'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/68/8168/3'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/68/8168/2'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/61/7261/1'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/61/7261/2'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/19/8519/2'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Changes to 'refs/changes/19/8519/1'

2014-09-29 Thread Keith Curtis
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[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Branch 'libreoffice-4-2' - vcl/source

2014-03-26 Thread Keith Curtis
vcl/source/window/toolbox.cxx |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) New commits: commit e9451c72d4e221c993e1af30652c62a538d033d8 Author: Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com Date: Mon Mar 17 20:16:57 2014 -0400 Hopefully fix Windows HiDPI toolbar layout bug

[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Branch 'libreoffice-4-2-3' - vcl/source

2014-03-26 Thread Keith Curtis
vcl/source/window/toolbox.cxx |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) New commits: commit b740953537b324e157b22ce3bd46611b01f78e47 Author: Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com Date: Mon Mar 17 20:16:57 2014 -0400 Hopefully fix Windows HiDPI toolbar layout bug

[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: vcl/source

2014-03-21 Thread Keith Curtis
vcl/source/window/toolbox.cxx |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) New commits: commit 509441038ab95dd3a60efd1b6c302bf22bfbc631 Author: Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com Date: Mon Mar 17 20:16:57 2014 -0400 Hopefully fix Windows HiDPI toolbar layout bug

[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Branch 'libreoffice-4-2' - sc/source sd/source sfx2/source svx/source sw/source vcl/source

2014-03-12 Thread Keith Curtis
, 109 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) New commits: commit dfffb3244a4fd8cd58fa7786cbec626604dc61e1 Author: Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com Date: Thu Jan 2 16:01:07 2014 -0500 hidpi: Sidebar, fontwork, autoformat and other improvements. This is a second batch of HiDPI changes. It fixes

Re: Hi-DPI patches for 4.2

2014-03-11 Thread Keith Curtis
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 4:57 AM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com wrote: That picture is bizarre in that the gridlines drawn by Calc are not being doubled. Have you fiddled with the OS DPI stuff? The grid lines

Re: Hi-DPI patches for 4.2

2014-03-11 Thread Keith Curtis
Well, the rabbit hole gets deeper. Norbert, it now seems to me that there isn't something wrong with your build, but with your OS!?! Here is a screenshot of the current released build on Retina for comparison:

Re: Hi-DPI patches for 4.2

2014-03-10 Thread Keith Curtis
Perhaps it would be good to have Norbert double-check his work, but it seems logical the later changes aren't necessary without his first retina change to turn off auto-doubling mode, which is not a part of this set. Norbert is still in the investigation phase, and there are multiple ways to

Re: Hi-DPI patches for 4.2

2014-03-10 Thread Keith Curtis
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com wrote: Doubling bitmaps is a hack but since bigger bitmaps don't exist, it is better than doing nothing. The problem is that mac, in compatibility mode

[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: drawinglayer/source editeng/source include/vcl sw/source vcl/source

2014-03-05 Thread Keith Curtis
/source/core/txtnode/fntcache.cxx | 34 -- vcl/source/gdi/outdev3.cxx | 37 +++ 6 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 93 deletions(-) New commits: commit ff6f3164dfc454354bee79eac30d6cc279b8a0ec Author: Keith Curtis keit

[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: vcl/inc vcl/unx

2014-03-05 Thread Keith Curtis
vcl/inc/unx/saldisp.hxx |2 -- vcl/unx/generic/app/saldisp.cxx | 23 --- vcl/unx/generic/gdi/salgdi.cxx |8 ++-- 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) New commits: commit 9f308fbc02439e25f8932314a9374c205ebdbc4c Author: Keith Curtis keit

Re: Testing/Working on PyUNO?

2014-02-19 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; The C/C++ groups I worked in had all testers working in a scripting language. Those who had the skills and interest to write in C/C++ moved to product code. It was easy for developers to debug problems because the test application allowed you to configure which tests to run, the IDE was easy

Re: Testing/Working on PyUNO?

2014-02-19 Thread Keith Curtis
to find. They are out there! Regards, -Keith On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Markus Mohrhard markus.mohrh...@googlemail.com wrote: Hey Keith, On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; The C/C++ groups I worked in had all testers working in a scripting

Unity for HiDPI

2014-02-19 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi Björn, I have done some reading that the next version of Unity is going to have HiDPI support. Do you know if they will return 192 DPI when on these screens like what Gnome 3.10 does? I could find some Unity alias and ask, but you might know or be able to encourage them ;-) Unfortunately, I

KDE and HiDPI

2014-02-19 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; I did some research for KDE and DPI. By default all windows are 96 DPI and there is no screen auto-detection. However, it is possible to manually set the DPI for KDE 4.x. In the system settings, you can click on Appearance - Fonts and there is an option to force fonts DPI to 192 or whatever.

Re: Some information about LibO on actual hardware

2014-02-18 Thread Keith Curtis
I have the same hardware, but running Linux. There are a number of fixes in the master branch, and hope to get them into 4.2.1. It should just work on 8.1, but I am very curious to find out find out what happens as no one yet has tried. You are the first person with a Windows HiDPI machine around,

HiDPI for Mac, Windows, etc.

2014-02-07 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; Norbert has done a patch to master that should turn off the Mac auto-doubling mode, but it doesn't appear to be doing anything. This is confusing, but once it does work, then people can begin to decide whether the benefits outweigh the disadvantages of turning off compatibility mode now. (If

[Libreoffice-qa] HiDPI testing for LibreOffice 4.2.1

2014-02-02 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; I think it would be good to get some basic level of support for hidpi into LibreOffice 4.2.1: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/HiDpi The code has been in master since late December and there have been fixes already:

Font size dropdown regression

2014-01-28 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; Sorry for causing bug: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=8138c07b984ba1654483b4dc3488820ca4deaaca https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73051 I'm not exactly sure what is going on, but on my HiDPI machine with the 30 value I can fit 7 digits! Too many is better

Re: Font size dropdown regression

2014-01-28 Thread Keith Curtis
PM, Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi; Sorry for causing bug: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=8138c07b984ba1654483b4dc3488820ca4deaaca https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73051 I'm not exactly sure what is going on, but on my HiDPI machine with the 30

HiDPI OS-specific issues / next steps

2014-01-03 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; I've got another patchset I've submitted to Gerrit. Assuming that goes okay, the next steps are: * test / figure out what the most important issues are * whether / how to enable it for the Mac (Currently LibreOffice runs in compatibility mode where things are auto-doubled.) * testing on

[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: cui/source sd/source svx/source sw/source vcl/source

2014-01-02 Thread Keith Curtis
ab56275f4622ade0286a580a5945600567c6b415 Author: Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com Date: Thu Jan 2 16:36:51 2014 +0100 hidpi: Really use BMP_SCALE_FAST when scaling the images. It is not a problem of performance, but of the look - the images get too blurry in the case of icons; and the blurry look

Keith Curtis license statement

2013-12-20 Thread Keith Curtis
All of my past future contributions to LibreOffice may be licensed under the MPLv2/LGPLv3+ dual license. -Keith ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice

Re: [PATCH] HiDPI fixes for squiggly underlines

2013-12-19 Thread Keith Curtis
HI Kendy, Thank you! I've pulled your diff and doing a rebuild now. I have found that 5 pixels is a good value on my machine but I'll try 6, and it needs to be shifted down one more pixel. Also, there may be dirt because it increases the waveheight after the check. I believe Linux will return 96

Re: Disabling unit tests, redux

2013-12-18 Thread Keith Curtis
Okay, I took it out. ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice

Re: [PATCH] HiDPI fixes for squiggly underlines

2013-12-18 Thread Keith Curtis
found yet is control instance construction. Thanks! -Keith On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Jan Holesovsky ke...@collabora.com wrote: Hi Keith, Keith Curtis píše v Pá 13. 12. 2013 v 15:58 -0500: Good to hear from you. I've got a number of things in progress on my computer beyond

Re: Disabling unit tests, redux

2013-12-17 Thread Keith Curtis
, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 12:56:59AM -0500, Keith Curtis wrote: It appears when making changes to individual C++ files that my computer spends about 90% of the build time running unit tests. It seems that ‘make foo.build’ will not run

Disabling unit tests, redux

2013-12-15 Thread Keith Curtis
It appears when making changes to individual C++ files that my computer spends about 90% of the build time running unit tests. I tried make -sr all to disable them, but it still ran lots: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-March/009422.html I tried hacking on the makefile but

Re: [PATCH] HiDPI fixes for squiggly underlines

2013-12-13 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi Kendy, Good to hear from you. I've got a number of things in progress on my computer beyond the underlines ( https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/HiDpi) but I wait to get an API first as I'm just writing if (1) //hidpi. I personally don't think a floating point value is a good

Re: [PATCH] HiDPI fixes for squiggly underlines

2013-12-13 Thread Keith Curtis
and 2x is just the start. Regards, -Keith On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Tomaž Vajngerl qui...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kendy, Good to hear from you. I've got a number of things in progress on my computer beyond

Font style and size dropdown widths

2013-12-12 Thread Keith Curtis
One thing I'm looking at right now is changing the font style and size dropdown width. With Gnome 3.10 out of the box, I can fit 7 digits into the size box ;-) The font style dropdown also feels a bit too big. So I trimmed 25% off the style name and 33% from the font size which still leaves plenty

Re: HiDPI Wiki page

2013-12-11 Thread Keith Curtis
10, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a wiki page to track the feature work: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/HiDpi In there you can see a screenshot of the toolbar issues: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOffice_HiDPI_toolbar_bugs.pdf

Re: [PATCH] HiDPI fixes for squiggly underlines

2013-12-11 Thread Keith Curtis
I wanted to follow up with the underline issue clipping code below and send a new patch. I have looked again at the code and did more testing. I started by commenting out the check again and was able to see problems so I can say that code is sometimes still important. But it doesn't appear to

HiDPI Wiki page

2013-12-10 Thread Keith Curtis
Here is a wiki page to track the feature work: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/HiDpi In there you can see a screenshot of the toolbar issues: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOffice_HiDPI_toolbar_bugs.pdf And a list of the other issues, and a todo list of places to

Re: Linux 3.12 released .. and no merge window yet .. and 4.0 plans?

2013-11-14 Thread Keith Curtis
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 06.11.2013 14:42, schrieb Keith Curtis: > >> I don't know if you all should spend time working only on bugs, but I >> believe more time should be spent on the bug *list*. There are many >> users patiently waitin

Re: Linux 3.12 released .. and no merge window yet .. and 4.0 plans?

2013-11-14 Thread Keith Curtis
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Alexander Holler hol...@ahsoftware.de wrote: Am 06.11.2013 14:42, schrieb Keith Curtis: I don't know if you all should spend time working only on bugs, but I believe more time should be spent on the bug *list*. There are many users patiently waiting

Re: Linux 3.12 released .. and no merge window yet .. and 4.0 plans?

2013-11-06 Thread Keith Curtis
I don't know if you all should spend time working only on bugs, but I believe more time should be spent on the bug *list*. There are many users patiently waiting for the kernel to work for their computer. The pleas for help can be read in the bug database. The data can be used to determine the

Re: Linux 3.12 released .. and no merge window yet .. and 4.0 plans?

2013-11-06 Thread Keith Curtis
I don't know if you all should spend time working only on bugs, but I believe more time should be spent on the bug *list*. There are many users patiently waiting for the kernel to work for their computer. The pleas for help can be read in the bug database. The data can be used to determine the

[tdf-discuss] HiDPI with LibreOffice

2013-10-29 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; I just replaced my ancient Thinkpad with a Hi-DPI Lenova Yoga 2 Pro. QHD+ screens are finally arriving in PC laptops and make text much nicer to look at. The Yoga is the cheapest, but there are a number of models on the market and more on the way. In general, LibreOffice works well but has a

[EDI-L] Sterling information

2013-10-08 Thread Keith Curtis
Hey guys, We recently installed Sterling Integrator and I am looking to learn more about the administration and mapping on this product. I cannot seem to find any forums or books out there other than what IBM has provided. Though that information can be useful I am looking more for some personal

Re: Slashdot Article

2013-08-29 Thread Keith Curtis
, I put you in cc because you are not subscribed On 8/28/13 6:45 AM, Keith Curtis wrote: One of the points I would like some clarification on is in the article defending ASF by Andrew C. Oliver: http://www.infoworld.com/print/22 In it, he wrote: Nearly all of the very active Apache

RE: Slashdot Article

2013-08-28 Thread Keith Curtis
One of the points I would like some clarification on is in the article defending ASF by Andrew C. Oliver: http://www.infoworld.com/print/22 In it, he wrote: Nearly all of the very active Apache OpenOffice developers work for IBM directly or indirectly. Can someone explain more about this?

Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: Experimental new LibreOffice UI

2013-04-24 Thread Keith Curtis
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Mirek M. maz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Keith, On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Keith Curtis keit...@gmail.com wrote: ... Notice that the advantages listed above don't require a ribbon-like UI and can be accomplished using toolbars while retaining all

Re: [libreoffice-design] Experimental new LibreOffice UI

2013-04-11 Thread Keith Curtis
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Stefan Knorr heinzless...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, that last mail was not meant to be sent. I am not sure why my mail program did that. Astron. Hi Astron; No problem, I'm happy to respond / clarify anyway. On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 22:01 -0700, Keith Curtis

Re: [libreoffice-design] Experimental new LibreOffice UI

2013-04-10 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi Astron; On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Stefan Knorr heinzless...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Keith, Furthermore, maybe WxWidgets might make sense to one day (slowly) LibreOffice's internal toolkit. VCL is very rich, but in an ideal So first of all, VCL is sadly not too rich – everywhere you

Re: [libreoffice-design] Experimental new LibreOffice UI

2013-04-10 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Michel Renon michel.re...@free.fr wrote: Hi Keith, Le 06/04/2013 01:30, Keith Curtis a écrit : Hi all; I've written a proposal for a new experimental UI for LibreOffice Writer: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:KeithCu That proposal is light

Re: [libreoffice-design] Experimental new LibreOffice UI

2013-04-08 Thread Keith Curtis
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Samuel Mehrbrodt s.mehrbr...@gmail.com wrote: Am 07.04.2013 20:09, schrieb Keith Curtis: Thanks for the info about PyGObject. I'll add that to the wiki page. However, I wonder how well it works on Mac and Windows compared to WxPython. For Windows

Re: [libreoffice-design] Experimental new LibreOffice UI

2013-04-07 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Samuel Mehrbrodt s.mehrbr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Keith, good to see some movement on the UI. There's already a funding campaign for a new UI in LibreOffice: http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/175/new-libreoffice-ui That is great to see as it can

Re: [libreoffice-design] Experimental new LibreOffice UI

2013-04-07 Thread Keith Curtis
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote: I've written a proposal for a new experimental UI for LibreOffice Writer: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:KeithCu *sigh* Anyone can see at the very first glance that the one who designed that doesn't have the

[libreoffice-design] Experimental new LibreOffice UI

2013-04-05 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi all; I've written a proposal for a new experimental UI for LibreOffice Writer: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:KeithCu In a few weeks Matúš Kukan will have an empty Python prototype ready to be filled in. After that, it becomes a question of what it should look like. The bitmap I

Re: [tdf-discuss] Experimental UI for LibreOffice proposal

2013-03-12 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote: I'm working on a proposal for building an experimental new LibreOffice toolbar / UI in Python: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:KeithCu Err, I would like to point out the fact that trying to emulate MS in

Re: [tdf-discuss] Scripting for LibreOffice

2013-03-12 Thread Keith Curtis
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote: While working on my wiki page about a new Writer toolbar, I realized that independently of my proposal, I believe it makes sense for LibreOffice to prefer Python. I see how LO is heading in this direction, but you could

Re: [tdf-discuss] Scripting for LibreOffice

2013-03-11 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: Hi Keith, On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 16:16 -0800, Keith Curtis wrote: I see how LO is heading in this direction, but you could be explicit about it, create more workitems, There always plenty of work-items

Re: [tdf-discuss] Scripting for LibreOffice

2013-03-11 Thread Keith Curtis
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Charles Jenkins cejw...@gmail.com wrote: I'm with you on the UI design, Keith. The way software looks influences how people perceive its capability, and LO looks like something from the 90's. I like your design because it's attractive, yet leaves the menus in

[tdf-discuss] Experimental UI for LibreOffice proposal

2013-03-08 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; I'm working on a proposal for building an experimental new LibreOffice toolbar / UI in Python: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:KeithCu I'm going to add some links to places where the C++ code would need to be changed and a few more tweaks, but I'm interested in feedback. Feel free

Re: [tdf-discuss] Experimental UI for LibreOffice proposal

2013-03-08 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; This should probably be on the UX mailing list. Also are you developing this also? Finding developers to implement this could be very very difficult - just giving you a heads up in case you don't want to waste a bunch of time for nothing. Best, Joel I'm not planning on developing

Re: [tdf-discuss] Experimental UI for LibreOffice proposal

2013-03-08 Thread Keith Curtis
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 03/08/2013 03:44 PM, Keith Curtis wrote: Hi; I'm working on a proposal for building an experimental new LibreOffice toolbar / UI in Python: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:KeithCu I'm

Re: [tdf-discuss] Experimental UI for LibreOffice proposal

2013-03-08 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com wrote: To be clear, the underlying image was created by Paulo José. Working on smaller screens is a good question, but you have to get something before you make it work with additional constraints. LibreOffice has two

Re: [tdf-discuss] macro compatibility between LO and AOO?

2013-03-05 Thread Keith Curtis
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be wrote: On 4/03/2013 8:27, M. Fioretti wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 08:16:25 AM +0100, Fernand Vanrie wrote: 99% percent , changes comes and will come from incompatiliteis in de API. for now this is OK, small changes from version

Re: [tdf-discuss] macro compatibility between LO and AOO?

2013-03-05 Thread Keith Curtis
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be wrote: On 4/03/2013 8:27, M. Fioretti wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 08:16:25 AM +0100, Fernand Vanrie wrote: 99% percent , changes comes and will come from incompatiliteis in de API. for now this is OK, small changes from version

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Google and ODF support!

2013-03-05 Thread Keith Curtis
That is amazing. Google wrote this in their analysis of OpenXML: (https://forums.scc.ca/forums/scc/dispatch.cgi/public/showFile/100294/d20070705225348/No/objections%20by%20Google.pdf) - Although OOXML may formally comply with Ecma, it was clearly not designed with an “open” spirit. Comparing

Re: [tdf-discuss] macro compatibility between LO and AOO?

2013-03-05 Thread Keith Curtis
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be wrote: On 4/03/2013 8:27, M. Fioretti wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 08:16:25 AM +0100, Fernand Vanrie wrote: 99% percent , changes comes and will come from incompatiliteis in de API. for now this is OK, small changes from version

[libreoffice-marketing] Official Mascot

2013-02-27 Thread Keith Curtis
I can recommend cuteoverload as a place to find potential mascots ;-) Monkey: http://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/7976982570_55bb0e3cf1_b.jpg Bug: http://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/8473765547_dda691f78e_b.jpg Regards, -Keith On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Italo

[libreoffice-marketing] Article about LibreOffice, brands, etc.

2013-02-15 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi all; I wrote an article in support of LibreOffice, submitted it to lxer.com, and it was their top story of the day. So, I thought I'd pass it around here like other things that are posted: http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=3163 Some of what I wrote might be impolitic about a sensitive issue,

[tdf-discuss] Article about LibreOffice, brands, etc

2013-02-15 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi; I wrote an article in support of LibreOffice, submitted it to lxer.com, and it was their top story of the day: http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=3163 Some of what I wrote might be impolitic about a sensitive issue. I'm not trying to troll this old topic, I just write about important things I

Re: [Emc-users] OT ? Kalman Filter

2011-08-21 Thread Keith Curtis
Hi Dave, I have a tiny bit of experience with Kalman filtering for state estimation, and attached a toy example that might help get you started. I have written it to work with Octave which is open source so you can install it if you don't already have it. The idea as I understand it is that you

Re: Glitch-free iTunes?

2011-07-04 Thread Keith Curtis
None of the Linux kernel developers are paid by Linus nor can be fired by him. Linus never forces people to respond to his mails or to work on anything. What has happened is that the team has realized that having goals and leadership has led to good results, and Linus is a good leader, and so they

Re: Glitch-free iTunes?

2011-07-04 Thread Keith Curtis
I bring up Linus because he can focus efforts. You don't need Linus. You just need the same result -- focused efforts. There is another name for this concept -- teams. Maybe WINE needs sub-teams? I assure you that the problem isn't for lack of resources. I know you feel busy and perhaps that I'm

Re: Glitch-free iTunes?

2011-07-03 Thread Keith Curtis
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Damjan Jovanovic damjan@gmail.comwrote: Hi Keith Having worked at Microsoft, you of all people should appreciate the size and complexity of the driver architecture on Windows. So I would say that failure is mostly from the scale of the problem to be

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