NoOp wrote:
On 03/22/2012 06:31 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote:
NoOp wrote:
It would be nice if someone 'official' (ala TDF) could post the
CVE-2012-0037 notice on both the user and announce lists.
It is now reported on the blog post.
Well just how many users are subscribed to
NoOp wrote:
Why is it that "security advisories" such as this:
https://www.libreoffice.org/advisories/CVE-2012-0037/
are not posted on the user or announce lists?
The only way I found out about this was via a Redhat bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=791296
[Bug 791296 - (
e-letter wrote:
On 15/02/2012, Robert Derman wrote:
I am just a bit slow to re comment on this, but belatedly, here goes.
You have to excuse me for saying this, I have used OpenOffice since it
was first released to the public (I loved OO Writer, and I like LO
Writer even more) and I am a
Olav Dahlum wrote:
2012/2/15 Shawn Sumin
Will LibreOffice ever have a similar program like MS Outlook?
i.e. Calendar, Tasks, Contacts and Mail
The components was thrown out of StarOffice in its time, so putting them
back won't be feasible. But as other people points out, it's actua
yahoo-pier_andreit wrote:
On 08/02/12 10:54, Pedro wrote:
Hi all
I just read the UX thread/sequence of emails where it was decided
that the
universal Save icon (in any program, any OS) represented by a floppy
disk
would be replaced by another icon.
I'm shocked that a Discuss topic where 54
donald_harbi...@us.ibm.com wrote:
Pedro,
My mistake then. I didn't read deeply enough into the thread.
I still submit that none of these open source projects and their products
compete in the sense of meaningful market share. With MS-Office dominating
so thoroughly the only thing that makes s
Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hi,
Olivier Hallot wrote on 2012-01-24 15:48:
Voting is a measure of traceable membership participation/activity.
Otherwise we can get spammed on untraceable votes to send us where we
don't want LibCon to happen.
by that, we would exclude a large amount of developer
Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello,
we have received two proposals for this years' LibreOffice Conference
- thank you very much for your applications!
My proposal for the voting process is as follows:
- I would like to make the proposals public immediately, by uploading
them to the wiki, and
ScCrow wrote:
I did not find this in my searches or anything in the LibreOffice options.
So, sorry if its there and I just did not find it.
I would like for a document (any document) to open to the last page that I
was on when I closed it. I have a large document. When I go back, I always
hav
1920...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 4 January 2012 13:46, Michael Meeks wrote:
Trivial to do; and the UX people I've talked to ask to do it. All we
need is for someone to submit a patch we can merge that has the updated
tango icons overwriting the save / saveas icons.
An Easy Hac
M Robinson wrote:
I haven't heard of Delete/Eraser that works as well on SSDs as
traditional hard drives. That said USB will be the most common storage
media soon enough. Who saves to CDs at work?
I don't think the icon is a big deal, the whole interface is dated, I
pitched a Firefox addon-lik
Olav Dahlum wrote:
On 28/12/11 20:05, Danishka Navin wrote:
As you all know the floppy disc is some thing out dated in the modern
computer world.
I'm afraid it's not the case, a lot of people use them, and especially
in governmental institutions.
Why we still continue the "Floppy
Paul wrote:
Does Libre office have a stand alone PDF application? ie - does Libre provide the PDF editor by itself without all the other features in the 200 MB download - is it possible to install only the PDF tool without all the other features ?
All responses appreciated. Thanks, Paula
Yes
Olav Dahlum wrote:
On 28/11/11 13:13, Pedro wrote:
Ian Lynch wrote
Google should do a version of Office based on the
OOo/LibO code base and embed ads and search links, make it available
freely
and brand it Google Office. Given their brand strength and marketing,
that
would probably do
Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello,
thanks a lot to everyone for their great and creative contribution to
the discussion, which I consider really fruitful. Even if I didn't
reply to every message, I read them all.
It is already rather clear, that there is a real overwhelming support
for havin
Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello,
sadly, I didn't manage yet to read all messages, but I will and will
reply to. But I think (correct me if I'm wrong) we have reached a
stage where we should maybe have a quick poll on whether to go with
our own forums or not. If yes, we then can later on deci
Ken Springer wrote:
Hi, Larry,On 7/31/11 2:28 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote:Please fix your quote
attribution. It is almost impossible to pick
out your comments in this mess.I would if I knew how And *if* it was
easy to do for just the
LO messages. I'm not happy with the way TB 5.0 wor
Andy Brown wrote:
Robert Derman wrote:
Andrea Pescetti wrote:
e-letter wrote:
It is difficult to understand why a business
would waste time trying to use LO; if a customer uses m$, the supplier
might as well do so also and consider the m$ price as a cost of
conducting
Andrea Pescetti wrote:
e-letter wrote:
It is difficult to understand why a business
would waste time trying to use LO; if a customer uses m$, the supplier
might as well do so also and consider the m$ price as a cost of
conducting business.
I've seen plenty of small, medium and large bu
Laurence Jeloudev wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if Libreoffice would implement an auto save feature in
os x lion and full screen app support, or maybe an auto save feature
that is similar but it can also be Implemented in other operating
systems like ubuntu or windows where the user does not have t
Uwe Altmann wrote:
Hi
Am 12.07.11 20:38, schrieb drew:
hmmm - that is assuming that the two separate projects will maintain
enough common code base that shared extensions are possible - that is a
requirement that I for one would not want to see enforced. The fact that
we can share extensions
Ken Springer wrote:Size of the Adobe install has been mentioned. On my
Mac, Reader 10, approaches 300 MB. Personally, if the document is
important to me, I find reading the printed version to be easier than on
screen. And I can sit in my favorite chair, instead of in front of a
computer. FYI
Ian Lynch wrote:
On 5 July 2011 21:58, Robert Derman wrote:
e-letter wrote:
As far as the request for the ability to download individual
components of LO, this should not be enabled. The whole concept of the
predecessor staroffice product was to provide various functionalities
in
e-letter wrote:
As far as the request for the ability to download individual
components of LO, this should not be enabled. The whole concept of the
predecessor staroffice product was to provide various functionalities
in terms of word-processing, spreadsheets, drawing, etc. and this
should be con
Simon Cropper wrote:
On 05/07/11 09:07, Robert Derman wrote:
NoOp wrote:
On 06/25/2011 03:37 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Simon Phipps
wrote:
On 25 Jun 2011, at 08:33, Ian Lynch wrote:
Manfred wrote:
"I still believe that PDF is the best soluti
NoOp wrote:
On 06/25/2011 03:37 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Simon Phipps wrote:
On 25 Jun 2011, at 08:33, Ian Lynch wrote:
Manfred wrote:
"I still believe that PDF is the best solution to distribute final
versions
of text
Ian Lynch wrote:
On 2 July 2011 23:22, Robert Derman wrote:
Keith Curtis wrote:
The problem with building a reader is that it would be about the same size
as LibreOffice. OpenDocument is very different from PDF. For those who
can't
install LO, they probably can't install
Keith Curtis wrote:
The problem with building a reader is that it would be about the same size
as LibreOffice. OpenDocument is very different from PDF. For those who can't
install LO, they probably can't install the reader either.
Perhaps separating the modules of LO so that users could downlo
Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
Le Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:41:07 -0700 (PDT),
plino a écrit :
Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
Now, as for humility, claiming in an assured and definitive way
that ODF will lose if it
does not embed fonts is not exactly humble either.
I didn't say that. I said tha
ading, you have
to click on a sub file and then go up to the folder you want.
-Original Message-----
From: Robert Derman [mailto:robert.der...@pressenter.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 11:55
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] New "LibreOffice Reader"
Jesper Lund Stocholm wrote:
Hi Robert,
2011/6/25 Robert Derman :
This could eventually destroy ODF as a viable world standard if at some
point some software company or organization comes up with a popular program
(example Microsoft) that embeds fonts so that anyone editing the document
Sean White wrote:
I dont thinks thats normal somehow, i have been using Adobe Reader for years
and have NEVER had it come past 200MB.
Back to discussion, what's with all the PDF hate.
Actually I don't hate PDF, I use it frequently and as such I am glad
that OOo and LO have the capability of ou
Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2011-06-24 18:01, Nuno J. Silva a écrit :
On 2011-06-24, Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2011-06-24 13:13, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit :
Hello,
Le Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:48:54 -0700 (PDT),
plino a écrit :
I really hope that revision 1.2 allows for font embedding in ODF
documents.
IMO
Nuno J. Silva wrote:
On 2011-06-25, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
On 06/25/2011 02:09 PM, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
I see font embedding as a way to make interoperation easier, and not to
achieve faithful representation. I think a major goal is to have ODF
being used on several platforms,
the right direction again in
the transition from reader 9 to reader 10, and dumping some unnecessary
crap.
-Original Message-
From: Robert Derman [mailto:robert.der...@pressenter.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 21:24
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] New
plino wrote:
Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
So, let me state and restate this : ODF will not embed fonts in the
1.2, 1.3, nor in the future, because the format is not meant to focus on
faithful layout rendering. Instead, PDF is meant that. ODF focuses on
office document exchanges.
As long as O
Fernand Vanrie wrote:
Cor ,
I know all this tricks, but its still sending as attachments , i want
a simple way to send a email with a message in the body
Thanks
Fernand
I would like this also, the auto corrector of LO makes it much faster to
write emails than T-Bird or any other email clien
On 24/06/2011 03:59, Marc Paré wrote: The initial use of the
"LibreOffice Reader" would be just a plain reader, the challenge after
this would be to try to build as much document fidelity into it as
possible. Again, with the hopes to rival .pdf fidelity. Maybe once all
the devs put their head
Varun Mittal wrote:
I personally feel we have more important set of priorities than diversifying
right now into PDF reader. Also no point inventing the wheel again when
there are several open source pdf readers available which we can integrate
instead of developing one of our own.
I am wonder
Simon Phipps wrote:
On 23 Jun 2011, at 23:32, Marc Paré wrote:
I think it was mentioned that there were at one point over 100 million LibreOffice/OOo
users. If we were to develop our own "LibreOffice Reader" we would already have
100 million potential users for our product. Not only that,
Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi Samuel,
Samuel M wrote (23-06-11 17:06)
Why should'nt TDF go ahead and employ one of the former OOo
developers or someone else from the community? I think there would be
much interest from users and companys to pay for fixing bugs /
implementing new features.
Employing peo
Ian Lynch wrote:
On 22 June 2011 11:11, Italo Vignoli wrote:
On 6/22/11 9:38 AM, Cor Nouws wrote:
I have added some comments on the Discussion page.
If you think it is better, I'll be glad to bring the items on this list.
I think both ways are OK.
I am collecting all email
I have a few observations to make, as to future changes/improvements.
I for one am very reluctant to frequently upgrade any major software
application that must be downloaded and replaced in its entirety,
particularly if there is not a published list of the improvements in
the new releas
Simos Xenitellis wrote:
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton
wrote:
Ignoring the repetition on who is entitled to source code and how they are told
about it, I would like to know the answers to some very specific, tangible
matters closer to home. My question is basically wh
Greg Stein wrote:
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 13:40, Pieter E. Zanstra wrote:
As an interested user I see a lot of noise passing by on this topic. I must
say I am totally unimpressed. What counts for me is reality, not dreaming in
the cloud. I was used to getting no response from Microsoft on my
Augustine Souza wrote:
On 6/15/11, Allen Pulsifer wrote:
...
End users do not care about
who's right, who's wrong, who's been slighted, who is more pure, etc. They
just care about products and technologies that are going to meet their
needs.
Painting quite a poor picture of end users
Florian Effenberger wrote:
First TDF Advisory Board members demonstrate wide corporate support
for LibreOffice
Strong backing for a truly free and vendor-neutral office suite
The Document Foundation provides solid grounds to build upon
The Document Foundation today announced the first members
Volker Merschmann wrote:
Hi,
2011/6/9 Simon Brouwer :
Suppose Oracle had considered donating the OpenOffice.org trademarks and
copyrights to TDF. How could it be the recipient of such a donation if it
didn't exist as a legal entity?
I'm feeling it's the hundredth time it is told: The
Simon Brouwer wrote:
Op 9-6-2011 16:32, Simon Phipps schreef:
On 9 Jun 2011, at 12:12, Simon Brouwer wrote:
Hi Jim, all,
Jim Jagielski schreef:
On Jun 8, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Simon Phipps wrote:
On 8 Jun 2011, at 23:49, Jim Jagielski wrote:
On Jun 8, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Simon Brouwer wrote:
Italo Vignoli wrote:
On 6/7/11 3:21 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
I agree... My "going over it" was simply to indicate areas which
I *think* (again, I have no idea, nor do a *want* to know) may
have been reasons Oracle declined, since that seems a point
that people are extremely curious about.
Pro
Andy Brown wrote:
I seem to be really missing something in all this talk about the
transfer of OOo.
1: What would TDF do with the code? At this point in time LibO is way
ahead of OOo in features and code clean up, from the patches flying in
the dev list.
2: What would TDF do with the Ope
Marc Paré wrote:
Ahem .., or we could just ignore our ASF lurkers, keep working on our
great product, let OOo go unsupported and gather dust as it was in
Oracle's hands.
We have a truly community oriented and supported product with great
licenses as opposed to a restrictive ASF product. We do
Thorsten Behrens wrote:
Florian Effenberger wrote:
Thanks for announcing this. Maybe we should also know if you have to be
there in person or can you participate remotely?
the event is planned on-site. Maybe we can get some remote
connection involved, but primarily, it is for hacking
NoOp wrote:
On 05/19/2011 05:18 PM, NoOp wrote:
If you are a wikipedia member/contributor, perhaps you can have a look at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_OpenDocument_software
No mention of LibreOffice.
Appearantly that is no longer the case. It is promanently mentioned as
of
Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
Hi all,
especially those of You receiving mails as digest are requested to
report.
Some people reported not beeing able getting text of the mail to be
quoted in the Editor area.
e-letter reported this for gmail,
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.
sophie wrote:
Gianluca,
On 15/05/2011 11:44, Gianluca Turconi wrote:
Hi Sophie,
sophie wrote:
the system could be a bug tracker with a less technical UI than BZ, but
I think a wiki with a good template could be enough. Why do you say
"dispersive"?
Because you have to navigate *a lot* through
Olivier Hallot wrote:
Em 04-05-2011 13:11, M Henri Day escreveu:
2011/5/4 Olivier Hallot
Thanks Mike for the tip
As I see, this character U+2204, does not exist in Opensymbol font,
used by
Math by default. At least not in the displayed characters of Math UI.
So, if this symbol get implem
Jon Hamkins wrote:
On 04/24/2011 01:36 PM, Robert Derman wrote:
I have said this a number of times, and that at least the English
version is sadly deficient in compound words, at least the one in OOo
3.11 which I am still using because I am reluctant to give up the
personal dictionary to which
Jaime R. Garza wrote:
I have some doubts as to whether the two products will diverge now that
Oracle has decided to end its involvement with OpenOffice.org . I suspect
that at some point rather than let OOo just whither and die it will merge
with The Document Foundation and the two
Jon Hamkins wrote:
On 04/22/2011 05:33 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
Hi *,
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Jon
Hamkins wrote:
On 04/06/2011 04:54 AM, toki wrote:
There are roughly one billion words in the English language. You could
have a LibO spell checker that contains each of those wo
And I found another couple of similarly completely uncategorized forums.
The forums at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ look much
more promising, but are not these two products expected to diverge
more and more? In my understanding LibreOffice is a new project that
_started_ wit
very good spell checker.
I am a computer hardware expert, but not a software expert, at least no
more than most end users, but perhaps this is something where someone
like me might just be able to help. Robert Derman
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Karl-Heinz Gödderz wrote:
Am 29.03.2011 23:24, schrieb Norbert Thiebaud:
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Michael Meeks wrote:
I'd also like to hear from some of our new developers that liked that
page - again, on the dev list.
The easy hack page has hugely grown since
Kevin André wrote:
Calc seems to autocorrect a small letter to a capital letter after a dot
character.
But a dot character does not always mean the end of a sentence; in this case
it was used for an abbreviation. And sadly there is no way to undo a wrong
autocorrection: pressing undo will revert
ed in spellchecking, but nevertheless trying a
shot..
Robert Derman schrieb:
RGB ES wrote:
AFAIK, LibO dictionaries are the same dictionaries from OOo. If you
have a custom dictionary where you added the words you miss, you can
"import" (I mean, copy to the right location) that dicti
file:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
2011/2/20 Robert Derman :
One of the reasons, perhaps the main reason I have not upgraded to LO from
OpenOffice 3.1 yet is that I dread having to go through the process of
adding over a thousand compound words to the spellcheck dictionary. This
Charles-H. Schulz wrote:
You can copy and paste it here,of course :-)
That would be good, since I would like to see it too.
Charles.
Le 26 févr. 2011, 5:25 PM, "Howard Barr" a écrit :
On 27/02/2011 00:54, Italo Vignoli wrote: > > Any chance of getting a copy
of such emails? I would l...
I
Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
On 2/23/11 12:25 AM, Valter Mura wrote:
In data giovedì 13 gennaio 2011 22:53:59, Fabián Rodríguez ha scritto:
On 11-01-12 11:35 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2011/01/12 8:49 AM Mirek M. wrote:
2011/1/12 Jonathan Aquilina
Why not license it under an appropriate lic
One of the reasons, perhaps the main reason I have not upgraded to LO
from OpenOffice 3.1 yet is that I dread having to go through the process
of adding over a thousand compound words to the spellcheck dictionary.
This dictionary has almost NO compound words in it! Does anyone know if
this pr
adept techlists - kazar wrote:
On 2/12/11 2:04 PM, Robert Derman wrote:
Just so you all know, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM can now be purchased for $36.
on the internet. In historical terms, that is indeed dirt cheap.
My point here is that any new computers being built are unlikely to have
less than 2
Kevin Hunter wrote:
At 4:09pm -0500 Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2011-02-11 3:35 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote:
How the quickstarter works is have use gobs of memory effectively
sitting idle. That doesn't work. Many of us in the computing,
engineering, physics, and chemical fields *use*
Alexander Thurgood wrote:
Le 09/02/11 16:31, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit :
Alex there is an article regarding the 20 things about OOo which could
be improved if someone has a subscription to linuxformat.co.uk they
could download the pd of the article. it would be a great one to follow
and make
Alan Reeve wrote:
On 09/02/2011 11:12, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
Le 09/02/11 11:49, Alan Reeve a écrit :
Hi Alan,
As there has been no response, can I ask if I have put my request into
the wrong forum or are there too many other organisational problems
being addressed presently?
I would say
Alan Reeve wrote:
On 09/02/2011 12:05, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2011-02-09 6:12 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
As to your bug correction request, you would be better off filing a bug
report at freedesktop.org, which is where TDF has decided that all such
reports should be filed, or even better s
Jaime R. Garza wrote:
Hello all,
for when is it planned to have Automatic Update for Windows & Mac
LibreOffice, for Linux usually makes no sense?
My opinion, the user should be able to decide if it's completely Automatic,
or they only get an info pop window, offering a one click update.
Cheers
Michael Wheatland wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Charles Marcus
wrote:
Case in point - Michael's work on Drupal would have provided integrated
mail list <> forums <> nabble so that any user could use their tool of
choice, and all would be interconnected, not isolated, making these
Ian Lynch wrote:
On 1 January 2011 18:43, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
Whats really held OOo and will hold LO back is the lack of an equivalent
program such as outlook.
Why waste time and effort on this when there are other perfectly valid
alternatives? Evolution, Thunderbird for open
Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
besides email people want a calendar as well as a to do list as well
functionality wise, which Thunderbird seems to lack.
On 1/1/11 8:36 PM, Lee Hyde wrote:
On 01/01/11 19:20, Craig A. Eddy wrote:
So, what am I saying? You don't NEED to add something useless like
Out
Samuel Mehrbrodt wrote:
I think it's good to change the names of the Applications so that they
describe what each application does. LibreOffice is the brand which
will be known and names of the applications should help to find the
application you want to use. I would also suggest to translate the
NoOp wrote:
On 12/17/2010 05:53 AM, Jaime R. Garza wrote:
As many others already commented, I believe it's time that LibreOffice
changes the names of some of the individual applications, my humble
proposal:
Write
Spread
Present
Draw
Formula
Base
This is critical when attempting to hav
Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2010-12-14 9:38 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
The thread is discussing the possibility of name changes to some of
the modules: Writer, Impress, Calc, Draw, Base, Math.
I don't think they are suggesting a name change for LibreOffice in
this case.
Oh, ok, good... sorry f
Valter Mura wrote:
In data lunedì 15 novembre 2010 17:39:08, Mirek M. ha scritto:
It would also be great if LibO, KOffice, AbiWord, Gnumeric, Ease, and
all
the other open-source editors worked together to set standards.
It's called Open Document Format (ODF) an
NoOp wrote:
On 11/30/2010 02:43 AM, plino wrote:
The point here is that OOo has a small installer with 140Mb (no Java, and
only English, Spanish and French dictionaries).
Why is LO going in the opposite direction with 299 and 466Mb???
The current packages (including in the smallest option 56
NoOp wrote:
On 11/26/2010 12:16 PM, Robert Derman wrote:
Marc Paré wrote:
...
Of these two options, I would prefer being offered the menu AFTER
having downloaded the LO suite. The reason for this: some users may
find that downloading the suite took a longer than the anticipated
Peter Lairo wrote:
On Sun. 28.11.2010 19:09, Sebastian G. wrote:
I'd like to know which components are most used and maybe why others are
not. If you used OpenOffice before you can include your usage data as
well.
Do you use the quick starter?
No!
I always turn the damn thing off, and it
Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 01:30:32PM -0600, Robert Derman wrote:
...snip
I use Writer a minimum of 1 hour every day, weekends included,
probably an average of 3 hours a day. I don't use any of the other
components at all. As far
Sebastian G. wrote:
I'd like to know which components are most used and maybe why others
are not. If you used OpenOffice before you can include your usage data
as well.
Do you use the quick starter?
This is more or less private. There's no goal (other than to satisfy
my curiosity) of this s
Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2010-11-26 15:16, Robert Derman a écrit :
Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2010-11-25 14:44, Robert Derman a écrit :
With all the discussion of the size of the download package and the
difficulty of including things like manuals I suddenly realized that
perhaps we are going about this
Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2010-11-25 14:44, Robert Derman a écrit :
With all the discussion of the size of the download package and the
difficulty of including things like manuals I suddenly realized that
perhaps we are going about this thing entirely wrong! Perhaps what we
should do is offer a
With all the discussion of the size of the download package and the
difficulty of including things like manuals I suddenly realized that
perhaps we are going about this thing entirely wrong! Perhaps what we
should do is offer a CHOICE of several download packages, not just one
take it or leave
..snip.
Whether it's user friendly or not depends on the user. If he/she/it is
open to learning a *few* new things, it is extremely user friendly.
There is, however, a segment of the population that actively resists
learning *anything*.
That's why: the more user-frie
Alexander Thurgood wrote:
Le 23/11/10 23:01, Robert Derman a écrit :
I just have to respond to this, I hate forums or anything else that
required the use of PASSWORDS!!! I already have 10 times too many
passwords to remember or keep track of and I want absolutely NO more.
Frankly I wish
Andy Brown wrote:
On Tue Nov 23 2010 12:36:35 GMT-0800 (PST) Robert Derman wrote:
Assuming that it is, I think the primary users manual should focus on
Writer, with just one chapter on each of the other modules, and a
pointer to where to download a more extensive manual on each. Where
I
Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2010-11-23 15:36, Robert Derman a écrit :
I have said this in the OOo discuss list, and I think it bears repeating
here. One of the biggest problems causing the need for users especially
new ones to need help is the lack of a good users manual. The OOo
documentation site is
M. Fioretti wrote:
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 08:57:45 AM -0800, plino (pedl...@gmail.com) wrote:
I do agree that volunteer-friendly user support is the key for the
success of any Open Source project. However, in my opinion e-mail
and mailing lists are obsolete and ineffective tools.
The pro
pport seems to be the first thing that for
profit companies give up when they think they can get away with it.
Now it is time for me to climb down off of my soapboxRobert Derman
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jonathon wrote:
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On 11/21/2010 09:15 PM, James Wilde wrote:
...and? Is LibO going to upgrade the version number every time OOo does? And
only then?
Unless there is a "compatibility tag" for extensions, the way that there
is for firefox,
Sean White wrote:
As a concerned user, if LibreOffice is meant a independent office project
derived from the OpenOffice code then why do we still use their version
numbering system. Wouldn't it be better to start from 1 to reinforce in
peoples minds that we are a separate project.
I couldn't
Alan C. Baird wrote:
Proposal for significantly enlarging LibreOffice's user base with
Screenwright(R)
14 November 2010 by Alan C. Baird, prizewinning writer and creator of the
Screenwright(R) screenplay formatter [winner of the Sun/OOo CIP award]
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jonathon wrote:
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On 11/11/2010 09:15 PM, Robert Derman wrote:
I have had to enter well over 1000 compound words into the dictionary,
If you did that as a user-created dictionary, it should be in
/user/3/wordbook, and as such, can be
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