Re: [dev] Help icons - dynamic change

2006-11-03 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi Robert, Robert Vojta wrote: OpenOffice.org supports icons theme switching. Is there anything (issue, idea, plan, implementation, ...) which describes dynamic icon theme switching when viewing help content - show same icons as UI has? I have big number of feedbacks on this topic - users are si

Re: [dev] Bounty for performance improvements

2006-11-03 Thread Jens-Heiner Rechtien
Hi Michael, slightly off topic, but speaking of performance improvements: Didn't these numbers about the expense of the reference counters on older Intel processors (pre Hyperthreading, say Pentium III) come initially form you? I changed the implementation of the reference counters in m191 so

Re: [dev] Specifications and Release Notes = Re: [dev] Specification Process Possibilities ... what about a wiki?

2006-11-03 Thread Bernd Eilers
Thorsten Behrens wrote: Bernd Eilers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: We do have a semi-automated process to generate Release Notes. This takes advantage of the OpenOffice Document file format and a standard template being used for the specification documents. Information from specifications docume

Re: [dev] Specifications - summary & suggestions ...

2006-11-03 Thread Nikolai Pretzell
Hi Kohei, Kohei Yoshida wrote: > Michael Meeks wrote: + The primary consumer of a finished spec. is QA If the developer is the same as the spec writer. Else the developer is as important a consumer as the QA. So, the language used in the spec should be oriented toward QA personnel (i

Re: [dev] Specifications - summary & suggestions ...

2006-11-03 Thread Kohei Yoshida
> So, the language used in the spec should be oriented toward QA > personnel (i.e. less advertising or "selling" tone, but more > technicality and correctness). A spec is a strictly technical document. Advertisement and selling has nothing to do with it. Yes, that was my understanding as well.

Re: [dev] Specifications - summary & suggestions ...

2006-11-03 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On 11/2/06, Michael Meeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems there has been a wide-ranging debate on the spec. topic wrt. reducing potentially discouraging barriers to entry for community contributors. I tried to summarise where I -think- we're at, and then present some principles & som

[dev] Interested in contributing programming

2006-11-03 Thread Doug Descombaz
Hi, I'm interested in contributing my programming skills to open office. I've been using it off and on for a few years and am a big fan. I've implemented Apache's POI on a few occassions. Regards, -- douglas descombaz - To un

Re: [dev] Poor results on the mailing list thru Suns newsgroups gateway

2006-11-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
CPHennessy wrote: > Hi Sunnies! > You should know that (at least for me) almost every Sun employees replies > coming thru your newsgroup gateway breaks email threading. Only those of you > who are directly subscribed to the mailing lists have correct threading. > This makes following topics qu

Re: [dev] Specifications - summary & suggestions ...

2006-11-03 Thread Niklas Nebel
Kohei Yoshida wrote: Another point I want to mention is that, perhaps the UI design requirement at CWS integration time should be relaxed a bit. Instead of requiring UE approveal of the UI change at cws integration time, either QA or peer reviewer can pre-approve the UI and integrate the code fi

Re: [dev] Extra build options

2006-11-03 Thread Enno Fennema
Jim Watson wrote: A simple method is to set CC="/path/to/gcc -m32" and CXX="/path/to/g+ + -m32" before running configure. Note the quotes ("). This works for me building 32 bit on 64 bit machine for GNU/Linux SPARC (debian/ unstable) like CC="/usr/local/4.1/bin/gcc -m32" and it is easy to s

Re: [dev] Specifications - summary & suggestions ...

2006-11-03 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On 11/3/06, Niklas Nebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kohei Yoshida wrote: > Another point I want to mention is that, perhaps the UI design > requirement at CWS integration time should be relaxed a bit. Instead > of requiring UE approveal of the UI change at cws integration time, > either QA or pe

RE: [dev] Bounty for performance improvements

2006-11-03 Thread Leibowitz, Michael
Actually, yes. I'm glad to hear that we have a better implementation. If we can avoid locking as much as possible. UTF2 should help in this regard. -- Michael Leibowitz Software Engineer, Channel Platform Solutions Group Intel Corporation michael.leibowitz at intel.com +1 503 264 7621 >-Or

Re: [dev] Specification Process Possibilities ... what about a wiki?

2006-11-03 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Thorsten, On Tuesday, 2006-10-31 22:48:39 +0100, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > > Specs aren't only about UI, they're also about behavior of a feature. > > Behavior of a feature, if not obvious, is something that must be agreed > > upon. We do have examples of started development, patches were sent

Re: [dev] Poor results on the mailing list thru Suns newsgroups gateway

2006-11-03 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Mathias, On Friday, 2006-11-03 17:12:34 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: > The technical problem is not a Sun but a Collab problem (and IIRC the > gateway used by Gmane has it also). I asked for a fix 2 years ago to no > avail. I did the same over 4 years ago ;-) http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/sh

Re: [dev] Specifications - summary & suggestions ...

2006-11-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Kohei Yoshida wrote: >> + UE - get involved before before the feature is >> implemented, or have some veto role > > Not sure how this works out for a feature that arrives "complete", > that is, for a feature that was originally external to OO.o (hence > missed the initial discus

Re: [dev] Specifications - summary & suggestions ...

2006-11-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Kohei Yoshida wrote: > On 11/3/06, Niklas Nebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Kohei Yoshida wrote: >> > Another point I want to mention is that, perhaps the UI design >> > requirement at CWS integration time should be relaxed a bit. Instead >> > of requiring UE approveal of the UI change at cws i

Re: [dev] changing the OOo-Configuration via API has no effect during runtime

2006-11-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Christoph Lutz wrote: > Hi, I would like to change a value of > "Tool->Options->Writer/ForrmattingAids/(show)Hidden Characters" in a > programmatic way. This is done by the macro (below), but after running > the code, the Tools->Options Dialog doesn't reflect the change. Only > after closing all o

Re: [dev] Poor results on the mailing list thru Suns newsgroups gateway

2006-11-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Eike Rathke wrote: > Since then I live well with a personal solution of a procmail recipe > that repairs those broken references, which of course is no excuse for > those broken news2mail gateways. I'd like to restate the recipe here. > Warning, long lines may wrap in your mailer! For Thunderbird

Re: [dev] Interested in contributing programming

2006-11-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi Doug, Doug Descombaz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in contributing my programming skills to open office. > I've been using it off and on for a few years and am a big fan. > > I've implemented Apache's POI on a few occassions. thanks for your offer. Perhaps you already have some ideas wha

Re: [dev] Bounty for performance improvements

2006-11-03 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
Utomo, I like your statments because you clearly state the objective "Load a doc file faster". It is, therefore, easy to quantify! Utomo wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. My original idea was. To make Ooo faster opening the Microsoft Office files. (but without adding memory usage by OOo) E