[discuss] OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge

2005-03-23 Thread =?iso-8859-15?Q?Lars_D=2E_Nood=E9n?=
OOo and OpenDocument both get a mention towards the middle of the article: Nigel McFarlane. Firefox explorers. The Age. 22 Mar 2005. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/21/253920087.html?oneclick=true ... I'm staggered and close to offended that some businesses

[discuss] Hindi fonts on Debian Ubuntu

2005-03-23 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi all, We meet difficulties activating Hindi fonts under OOo/Debian Ubuntu. ttf-indic-fonts package is installed (Gargi script should be installed so), linguistic parameters are activated, but it doesn't work. Is there something that we don't do correctly, or is it a Debian Ubuntu bug, I've

Re: [discuss] Managed Code

2005-03-23 Thread CPHennessy
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 05:19, Mr Rigel Anrndt wrote: This may be better directed at the Developer Community but I thought I'd start simple, so as not get to get laughed off the list. Can any developers who subscribe to this list and the developers list and have participation in the OOo

Re: [discuss] OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge

2005-03-23 Thread =?iso-8859-15?Q?Lars_D=2E_Nood=E9n?=
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Jonathon Coombes wrote: [...] If you are interested in finding out more about this story, I will be giving a case study on it at the OpenOffice.org MiniConf in Canberra on 18/19th April. Excellent! Could you post something online then? I'd love to visit Canberra again

Re: [discuss] Important missing spreadsheet feature

2005-03-23 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Fabio, On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:28:41 +0100, Fabio wrote: I find that there is one important missing feature in the spreadsheet program: The possibility to set the colums label in number format in substitution of letter format. This feature is very useful in many many cases. Would

Re: [discuss] MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future

2005-03-23 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 18--2005 21:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicu Buculei) wrote to discuss@openoffice.org: NB HelixPlayer is 3.8 MB (at least for the RPM version) useless bloat. NB is not even able (because of patents) to play mp3 files. Yes, of course. And why you mention this, if HelixPlayer mantainers can't

[discuss] Re: Important missing spreadsheet feature

2005-03-23 Thread Chuck
Eike Rathke wrote: P.S.: Please consider to subscribe to the mailing lists you're posting to. By doing so you won't miss replies that are directed to the list only. Please reply only to the list, not to my personal account. Thanks. Or use the new.gmane.org nntp interface. Keeps the inbox

[discuss] Re: OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge

2005-03-23 Thread Chuck
Lars D. Noodén wrote: OOo and OpenDocument both get a mention towards the middle of the article: Nigel McFarlane. Firefox explorers. The Age. 22 Mar 2005. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2005/03/21/253920087.html?oneclick=true ... I'm staggered and close to offended

Re: [discuss] Managed Code

2005-03-23 Thread Mr Rigel Anrndt
If you are looking for a background of the initiatives on .NET you can watch the .NET show. All the archives are available from here. The first part of each episode is from a non-developer standpoint, called TechNo Babble, and the second half of the show is from a programmer's standpoint,

Re: [discuss] Managed Code

2005-03-23 Thread Mathias Bauer
Mr Rigel Anrndt wrote: This may be better directed at the Developer Community but I thought I'd start simple, so as not get to get laughed off the list. Can any developers who subscribe to this list and the developers list and have participation in the OOo development tell me if: A:

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge

2005-03-23 Thread Christian Einfeldt
Hi, Sorry for not snipping, but I wanted to be able to preserve the full context. On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:26, Chuck wrote: Lars D. Noodén wrote: OOo and OpenDocument both get a mention towards the middle of the article: Nigel McFarlane. Firefox explorers. The Age. 22 Mar

Re: [discuss] Re: annoying

2005-03-23 Thread Christian Einfeldt
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 20:14, Bill Sharpe wrote: Jonathon Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CPH wrote: Almost all of your other points are also possible to change. The only thing that _might_ be an issue is slow opening in comparison to MSOffice.

Re: [discuss] annoying

2005-03-23 Thread Andrews
So sad to hear this sort of comment directed at people doing fine work to unshackle us from the drudgery of MS - for free. As a user of open source for many years (from early Star Office versions) in the ultra conservative world of auditing I can say with satisfaction I have never had to use

Re: [discuss] Managed Code

2005-03-23 Thread Mr Rigel Anrndt
What is Mono? Rigel Christian Einfeldt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 March 2005 21:44, Travis Beaty wrote: Hi! I'm not on the development team, but the idea of moving to .NET / Mono would be quite interesting. Ick. Why would anyone use .NET when they could use Mono, which is

Re: [discuss] OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge

2005-03-23 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 05:40 -0500, Lars D. Noodén wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Jonathon Coombes wrote: [...] If you are interested in finding out more about this story, I will be giving a case study on it at the OpenOffice.org MiniConf in Canberra on 18/19th April. Excellent! Could you

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge

2005-03-23 Thread Ian Lynch
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 16:50, Daniel Carrera wrote: Chuck wrote: I have OOo installed on my laptop and love it (don't tell my workstation support group though or they'll remove it as unsupported software). When I buy my new XP home PC this week, OOo will be installed and not MS or Corel.

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge

2005-03-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
Ian Lynch wrote: Since Solaris has been open sourced, why switch to Linux? Just curious really. is there a difference in support costs or something? Or are there apps that run on Linux but not Solaris? We need to replace these computers, and we want to go to x86 hardware because it's

Re: [discuss] Re: OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge

2005-03-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Mensaje citado por Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 16:50, Daniel Carrera wrote: Chuck wrote: I have OOo installed on my laptop and love it (don't tell my workstation support group though or they'll remove it as unsupported software). When I buy my new XP home PC

RE: [discuss] Re: OOo and OpenDocument mentioned in TheAge

2005-03-23 Thread Justin Fitzgibbon
one responsible for corrupting a file that 20 other people are using and have to explain why I was using OOo instead of Word or Excel to my boss. From my experience OOo is likely to recover a document that can't be opened in word anymore rather than corrupt it, especially version 2. With

[discuss] Engineering mode in calc ?

2005-03-23 Thread Peter Knudsen
Maybe I just cant fint this, hope this is the right forum to ask ? Is there a way of telling Calc to show numbers in engineering mode such as 150e-3 or 100e3 instead of respectively 1.50e-1 and 1.00e5 pico e-12 nano e-9 micro e-6 milli e-3 e0 kilo e3 mega e6 Giga e9 Tera e12 Much

[discuss] shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-23 Thread Jacqueline McNally
For those of you that have not followed up on issue 30853 wrt the quickstarter and shortcuts, you may wish to have a look at how it is going, see: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30853 There is also a change to the specification document:

Re: [discuss] Re: Engineering mode in calc ?

2005-03-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
Rod Engelsman wrote: Sorry, Daniel, that doesn't do it. In engineering mode the exponent is always a multiple of 3. Dummy engineers... I didn't know that. Heck, the thing worked for the examples he gave... Oh well. That's been the standard in engineering school since at least the late

[discuss] Novell's Migration to OO

2005-03-23 Thread Kevin Cullis
Cool article: Why Novell's internal migration to Linux desktops is a landmark story http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/23/1755222 Kevin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

[discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-23 Thread Andrew Brown
Jacqueline McNally [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think Peter puts it best: This kind of thing would NEVER happen this fast with a MS product. I know this seems slow, but it really only took 3 - 4 months of serious squacking to get it changed. It's good that it's

Re: [discuss] Re: shortcuts quickstarter

2005-03-23 Thread Daniel Carrera
Andrew Brown wrote: I think Peter puts it best: This kind of thing would NEVER happen this fast with a MS product. I know this seems slow, but it really only took 3 - 4 months of serious squacking to get it changed. It's good that it's changed -- and it seems to me that the change will