Re: office package

1998-10-13 Thread Michael Meskes 
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 01:02:37PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote:
> Seriously, take a look at gnumeric if you haven't already. It looks
> awesome and is in very active development. It's part of Gnome.

I did and I'm really impressed. However, I had some problems with it until I
discovered that it works well with LC_ALL=C. This holds for quite a lot of
gnome apps btw.

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Re: office package

1998-10-12 Thread Yann Dirson 
Carey Evans writes:
 > > What interface(s) does siag have ATM. I want to develop some gtk stuff
 > > (and more serious stuff than the virtual poohsticks) - so would this be
 > > something to cut my teeth on?
 > 
 > Last time I looked, it was using Athena widgets, but I think the
 > author is looking at Gtk.

I'm currently maintaining the .debs for Siag Office.  There is already
a Gtk port of siag available (note: no gpw or gegon for now, but I
suspect the former could appear quite soon, as there are now 2
distinct `pw' and `xpw' dirs in the package), and I put it in the
debian source package.

However, I cannot compile it for now, as my particular installation
shows a bug (already reported as Bug#23411 against X), that I can
reproduce using libgtk1_1.0.1-1 and gimp_0.99.29-2 (that is, GIMP with
a non-matching gtk).  I am willing to use this configuration to track
this ugly bug, but I obviously need some help to do this, as I will
probably need X binaries with debugging syms, and I can't decently
recompile this beast on my poor 4DX33.  Furthermore, I don't want to
fetch X sources through my 33.6 modem - I guess I'll need to order a
source CD.

Any help appreciated on this.

TIA,
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Re: office package

1998-10-11 Thread Michael Meskes 
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 02:20:14PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > Then you'll just *love* to know that I noticed something called "KSiag"
> > on http://www.kde.org/news_dyn.html
> 
> Do the siag people know about this?  =>

Isn't siag a one person project? AFAIK the upstream author is working on a
GTK version.

Michael

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Re: office package

1998-10-11 Thread Michael Meskes 
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 12:01:48AM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> What interface(s) does siag have ATM. I want to develop some gtk stuff
> (and more serious stuff than the virtual poohsticks) - so would this be
> something to cut my teeth on?

How about trying LyX? With gnumeric and gsiag (hopefully) available I don't
think your work's needed here as much. But glyx ...

Michael

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Re: office package

1998-10-11 Thread Bart Schuller 
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 02:20:14PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > > I wonder if and when we get together a real office package under gnome. I
> > > wouldlove to see that. My personal favorites would be a glyx, gtksql with
> > > poistgresql and a spreadsheet, currently siag seems to be the best bet. 
> > > But
> > > that one's not with gtk either.

Seriously, take a look at gnumeric if you haven't already. It looks
awesome and is in very active development. It's part of Gnome.

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Re: office package

1998-10-11 Thread Carey Evans 
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> What interface(s) does siag have ATM. I want to develop some gtk stuff
> (and more serious stuff than the virtual poohsticks) - so would this be
> something to cut my teeth on?

Last time I looked, it was using Athena widgets, but I think the
author is looking at Gtk.

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Re: office package

1998-10-10 Thread M.C. Vernon 
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Joseph Carter wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 10:59:52PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote:
> > > I wonder if and when we get together a real office package under gnome. I
> > > wouldlove to see that. My personal favorites would be a glyx, gtksql with
> > > poistgresql and a spreadsheet, currently siag seems to be the best bet. 
> > > But
> > > that one's not with gtk either.

What interface(s) does siag have ATM. I want to develop some gtk stuff
(and more serious stuff than the virtual poohsticks) - so would this be
something to cut my teeth on?
 
The main obstacle ATM is trawling throught the pgp documentation to find
out what a key-signing is (I still don't see how it works wrt becoming a
developer). Maybe at a more sensible time of day


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Re: office package

1998-10-10 Thread Joseph Carter 
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 10:59:52PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote:
> > I wonder if and when we get together a real office package under gnome. I
> > wouldlove to see that. My personal favorites would be a glyx, gtksql with
> > poistgresql and a spreadsheet, currently siag seems to be the best bet. But
> > that one's not with gtk either.
> 
> Then you'll just *love* to know that I noticed something called "KSiag"
> on http://www.kde.org/news_dyn.html

Do the siag people know about this?  =>


> > Sigh!
> 
> Indeed. Sorry for the heavy sarcasm.




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Re: office package

1998-10-10 Thread Bart Schuller 
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 10:10:48PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> I wonder if and when we get together a real office package under gnome. I
> wouldlove to see that. My personal favorites would be a glyx, gtksql with
> poistgresql and a spreadsheet, currently siag seems to be the best bet. But
> that one's not with gtk either.

Then you'll just *love* to know that I noticed something called "KSiag"
on http://www.kde.org/news_dyn.html

> Sigh!

Indeed. Sorry for the heavy sarcasm.

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