Re: [tdf-discuss] Adding the browser to Libreoffice
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:04:10PM +0100, Randolph D. wrote: > Dear all, > after some talks with some board members, the request rised to include more > members and developers in the idea of adding a browser to Libreoffice. > We know this needs time and work, but would not be impossible to add it to > the installer and create a place to be for it, and see, how the community > reacts to it and requests more interaction. This security orientated webkit > browser would be a good codebasis for that: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dooble/ > Any pro or cons from anyone? No person in the office works today without > the internet, the consequence is, an office suite needs or could provide an > open source browser. Anyone interested to test or join the idea or > recommendations for the steps to plan? > Regards Randolph > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted Talk nicely to one of the other projects making small browsers? Netsurf / Midori might also be interested and are small codebase and lightweight. AndyC -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] Linux distros and LibO packaging
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:13:43PM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 09/01/2011 Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: > > I think that we should have a webpage where Linux distributions who are > > packaging LibO, could list what changes they made compared to the > > "official" build by TDF. ... > > So, is it a good idea to ask the Linux distributions to publish the > > changes they made to the official build ? > > It is a good idea to track changes, but it is probably a questionable > practice to make changes. I expected LibreOffice to be consistent across > distributions (something that of course at the moment is not true of > OpenOffice.org since most distributions apply significant patches to > it). Are there compelling reasons why distributions should ship versions > of LibreOffice that have significant changes with respect to the > "official" version? > I could imagine that, hypothetically, GNewsense, Trisquel, Fedora and, possibly, Debian might need to ship an "acceptably free" version by their own standards if there were any doubt as to the appropriate freeness of the LibreOffice code by the standards of the particular distribution involved. In addition, Debian may need to patch heavily to meet the requirements of some of the disparate hardware architectures, for example. Likewise, I could imagine Fedora being slightly ahead of Red Hat in packaging and both being out of synch. with the RPM implemented in OpenSUSE, for example. All the best, Andy -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
