Re: Suggestion

2019-01-27 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 1/27/2019 3:25 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: ... In short, I think adding an e-mail client never made sense, and that this was irrelevant even when it was actually in the suite (not named OpenOffice yet), but it is even more irrelevant now. I used StarOffice when it had a mail client, never

Re: Suggestion

2019-01-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter Kovacs wrote: I think the request for a OpenOffice Mail Client has been placed repeatedly over time. Yes, but it is due to a misleading analogy with what Microsoft does (or used to do) by incorporating a mail client into their Office suite. The main mission of OpenOffice focuses on

Re: Successful 1st Build!

2019-01-27 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Yes, the first step on this is definitely a feasibility and performance study. I would start by making the existing AOO string class a wrapper around an STL string. That way, we could experiment with only local changes, not finding and changing every place that does string manipulation. On

Re: Successful 1st Build!

2019-01-27 Thread Mechtilde
Hello we should also have a look against which version of OpenJDK we build. It works for me with Java 8 but NOT with Java 11. Kind regards Am 27.01.19 um 15:54 schrieb Peter Kovacs: > BTW, we had also the Idea to switch from C-Array to containers. This > also needs a code audit to identify the

Re: Successful 1st Build!

2019-01-27 Thread Peter Kovacs
BTW, we had also the Idea to switch from C-Array to containers. This also needs a code audit to identify the code incidents first. I currently have only noted a task for this. On 27.01.19 15:51, Peter Kovacs wrote: > I could not find a Issue for that. So I opened a bug[1]. > > But honestly I

Re: Successful 1st Build!

2019-01-27 Thread Peter Kovacs
I could not find a Issue for that. So I opened a bug[1]. But honestly I think this is might be quite a challenge. I am not sure if the UTF-implementation is affected by this task. According to FOSDEM talk from the last years it has some very suboptimal coding decisions. If that is affected, it

Re: Successful 1st Build!

2019-01-27 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Another project to consider after this is replacing AOO's own string implementation with the standard template library string. On 1/27/2019 4:32 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote: Awesome! Okay, next Step. Let me see if I have some Ideas. How about this one here:

Re: Error:: While installing openoffice debian menus

2019-01-27 Thread Nikhil Gupta
Thanks for the suggestion. It worked as the way you said.Now I am able to successfully install openoffice on my computer. On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 9:46 AM F C. Costero wrote: > Hi Nikhil, > Try purging LibreOffice with > sudo apt-get purge LibreOffice* > I did this before installing OpenOffice

Using AOO 4.2-dev with Java 11

2019-01-27 Thread Mechtilde
Hello, I tried to activate Java 11 with my AOO 4.2-dev build. this doesn't work. I get the message (translated back to English) The chosen directory dosn't contain a jre. Please choose another directory. I choose /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/. In this directory ther eis no one named jre.

Re: Successful 1st Build!

2019-01-27 Thread Peter Kovacs
Awesome! Okay, next Step. Let me see if I have some Ideas. How about this one here: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=118788 It is about tweaking a LibreOffice patch to our code. The patch is dual licensed so we can use this. Which is awesome. It may be a good low hanging fruit to

Re: Suggestion

2019-01-27 Thread Peter Kovacs
Hi John, I am open for an OpenOffice Email Client. As Markus writes OpenOffice Project would need to start from the scratch. Maybe reaching out to Thunderbird, Evolution or another email Project will provide faster results, and is the more efficient approach? (As Markus suggests) However if

Re: Suggestion

2019-01-27 Thread JD
Hi Marcus, One facet of all this has changed. In keeping with perpetual greed MS has copied the cash cow concept adopted by adobe - you don't get the program you rent it thus insuring they get your money. I loaded outlook and and because I think they are pushing the online stuff suddenly my

Re: Error:: While installing openoffice debian menus

2019-01-27 Thread jose . r . r
Niltze [Hello]- On 2019-01-26 16:22, Nikhil Gupta wrote: Hi I built openoffice on my Ubuntu(14.04) The build successfully run with no error message. But when i tried to install openoffice debian menus Following error shows: dpkg: error processing archive