[discuss] PING Nicu -- OpenClipArt

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
Nicu, I don't know how to work the Open Clip Art server. Is there a chance you could prepare a collection of images and send them to me? Thanks. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | Rigorous reasoning from inapplicable Join OOoAuthors today! | assumptions yields the world's most

Re: [discuss] Extras for OOo

2005-02-04 Thread Jonathon Blake
Daniel wrote: * Grab templates from ooextras.sf.net and the Docs site. Suggestion / Question: Can somebody volunteer to make some of the templates that come with MSWorks, and MSOffice, for OOo? Then include those templates in your extra goodies CD? MSWorks TaskWizards (which I assume are

Re: [discuss] Re: Extras for OOo

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
Daniel wrote: for templates and graphics I've used the following: http://it.openoffice.org/doc/utenti/modelli_macro.html http://fr.openoffice.org/Documentation/Gallery/indexgal.html http://oo-cs.sourceforge.net/templates/index.php You think you could compile those into a nice,

[discuss] Slightly OT: The six laws of new software

2005-02-04 Thread Rick Owen
Greetings, Wandering around in the shadows of the Internet this morning I stumbled across changethis.com and a manifesto titled The six laws of new software. Interesting reading. Some things I agree with, some I don't. The Manifesto is in PDF format. http://changethis.com/12.SixLawsSoftware

Re: [discuss] Extras for OOo

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
Daniel Carrera wrote: The compressed archive is 124 MB. I'm going to look at what should be removed to reduce the size. Ok, I found the problem. It's the photos. They are unnecessarily large (for an office suite). I'll resize them later. For now I just removed the largest 38 images. The

Re: [discuss] Extras for OOo

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
Shoshannah Forbes wrote: I now have 48 templates in the archive, including 8 from Shoshannah. I have a few more templates (6 impress and 1 writer) that I haven't created prewviews for yet. Would you like me to send them to you offlist? They are 4.9 MB in a tar.bz2 archive. Sure, that'd

[discuss] Popular macros?

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
I'm trying to decide which macros to add to the Extras package. What are the popular macros around here? Does anyone have a favourite? It has to be under a friendly license and not already come with OOo. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | Rigorous reasoning from inapplicable Join OOoAuthors

Re: [discuss] Popular macros?

2005-02-04 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On the spanish community is mostly the comma separation of numbers for cents. Funny thing is that in Mexico is a dot (2.99) but anywhere else is a coma (2,99) -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Quoting Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm

Re: [discuss] New download page. OOoExtras site

2005-02-04 Thread James Walker
Daniel Carrera wrote: Shoshannah Forbes wrote: http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/dcarrera/download/contribute.html This also adds an extra level of clarity. Contribution pages are links, and things you can download are buttons. Nice. :-) Glad you like it. One thing that I

Re: [discuss] Popular macros?

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 05:55:40PM +0200, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On the spanish community is mostly the comma separation of numbers for cents. Funny thing is that in Mexico is a dot (2.99) but anywhere else is a coma (2,99) Uhm... I can't find that macro. I was asking about existing macros

Re: [discuss] Re: Public Domain Image Site

2005-02-04 Thread Sigmascape1
Hi, Just FYI. Here is a link to some pubic domain content: http://www.ibiblio.org/sigmaman/content/images/public_domain/ Lots of artwork. Mitch Jonathon Coombes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 04:14 -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: Jonathon Coombes wrote: I have been

Re: [discuss] Bruce Schneier advices against MSO

2005-02-04 Thread Smoot Carl-Mitchell
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 12:07 +1000, Tim Fairchild wrote: Then something like my silly old dog has too many fleas msodh2mf is pretty safe by those definitions, and is easily improved like m50d#2mf Yes, pretty hard to guess. Of course it also depends on the usage of the password. For

[discuss] Default Email Client?

2005-02-04 Thread Rtnmi
Can someone tell me if OpenOffice has a default email program for it? Thanks, Bob

Re: [discuss] Update: Extras for OOo

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
Alright, one more update. I decided to add some documentation. I included some sample chapters from the user guide (the Authors team has done a great job). I also added a few pages clarifying the licenses for everything. So this is where the Extras package stands now: * 540 Clip Art

Re: [discuss] Public Domain Image Site

2005-02-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 21:45 -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: Jonathon, Do you think there's a chance we'll convince the release team to include a few more templates, photos and clipart with OOo? I've been arguing about that for ages. There are thousands of public domain photos from Open

Re: [discuss] Public Domain Image Site

2005-02-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Hm. We just finished the latest of several discussions on such matters. Far as I recall without looking at the archives, public domain is acceptable. Also acceptable for the site. It darn better be. But, you are right, one does need to ensure it really is public

Re: [discuss] Default Email Client?

2005-02-04 Thread Harald Schilly
No, there is no Email Client included Harald On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 11:55:03 -0600, Rtnmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me if OpenOffice has a default email program for it? Thanks, Bob - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

RE: [discuss] Default Email Client?

2005-02-04 Thread Rtnmi
Too bad: If it was half a awesome as OpenOffice is it would *beat em all out* Thanks, Bon -Original Message- From: Harald Schilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 1:06 PM To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Default Email Client? No, there is no

Re: [discuss] Download page [WAS: Re: [discuss] Public Domain Image Site

2005-02-04 Thread Jacob Floyd
It seems a lot of people request an e-mail client. Perhaps below the download button we could have something like: If you'd like an e-mail client that complements OpenOffice, we suggest Mozilla Thunderbird. Find it at mozilla.org/thunderbird Perhaps Something could be worked with the mozilla

Re: [discuss] Download page

2005-02-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi Jacob, It seems a lot of people request an e-mail client. Perhaps below the download button we could have something like: If you'd like an e-mail client that complements OpenOffice, we suggest Mozilla Thunderbird. Find it at mozilla.org/thunderbird Perhaps Something could be worked with the

Re: [discuss] Default Email Client?

2005-02-04 Thread Robert Derman
Robert Derman replies: We tend to recommend Mozilla Thunderbird however. Rtnmi wrote: Too bad: If it was half a awesome as OpenOffice is it would *beat em all out* Thanks, Bon -Original Message- From: Harald Schilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 1:06 PM To:

Re: [discuss] Popular macros?

2005-02-04 Thread Peter Kupfer
Daniel Carrera wrote: Daniel Carrera wrote: It has to be under a friendly license and not already come with OOo. Oh, another requirement: It has to be reliable and stable. Remember that this is for inclusion on a prominent button when people download OOo. It's important that it work and not