Re: [discuss] Please put actual filename in header bar

2005-06-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: Chad Smith wrote: I don't know if I'd call it contentious. I'd call it logical. You can actually see what it's called. The OP explains *why* the 1.x way of doing things *sucks*. If you *do* have a title (which some programs automagically assign without prompt to

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-03 Thread suzume
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-06-02-a.html a longer article from OASIS. JC Helary - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] Note for cell

2005-06-03 Thread SN Chan
Hi, I am thinking is it possible to strengthen the note insertion function for a single cell to multiple cells. Any one of these multiple cells been pointed at, a note sign appears with lines connected to all multiple cells on the area of the screen. Regards, SN Chan

[discuss] 2.0 Beta version Calc minor problem

2005-06-03 Thread Michael Langenes
To anyone who is involved in programming, I was editing a spreadsheet in Calc and went to 'Save As' to rename the file I was working on. Everything was in English like it was supposed to be for the English version I am using except two check boxes under the new filename box. The descriptions

Re: [discuss] XML patent hahaha :)

2005-06-03 Thread Wesley Parish
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From XML.org daily newslink: Possible Prior Art for Microsoft XML Patent Found Ingrid Marson, ZDNet News UK The row over Microsoft's XML patent has taken another twist with the discovery of an open source application on Sourceforge

[discuss] Electronically submitted reports (was: Microsoft Opens Office File Formats)

2005-06-03 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Peter Reaper wrote: [...] Now the EU could, as a *client*, require that all electronically submitted reports be in an open format... [...] That is an excellent idea. Where would one start on that? I can think of similar reasons to do the same in the US for NSF and NIH.

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-03 Thread Nicu Buculei
Peter Reaper wrote: Daniel Carrera on 02.06.2005 20:56 wrote: I can't say that I'm surprised. I'm hoping that the EU will force them to support the OASIS OpenDocument format. It could happen. Dream on. [...] Now the EU could, as a *client*, require that all electronically submitted

Re: [discuss] Another MS XML patent

2005-06-03 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Your intent is good, but since it takes a few million dollars to overturn a dud patent yet only a few thousand to apply for one, it's possible that just shooting down bad patents may not be a viable long term strategy. ;) However, shooting down this one specifically, might be a way to garner

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-03 Thread Robin Laing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-06-02-a.html a longer article from OASIS. JC Helary - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is more

Re: [discuss] Please put actual filename in header bar

2005-06-03 Thread Peter Kupfer OOo
Mathias Bauer wrote: Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: Chad Smith wrote: I don't know if I'd call it contentious. I'd call it logical. You can actually see what it's called. The OP explains *why* the 1.x way of doing things *sucks*. If you *do* have a title (which some programs automagically

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Opens Office File Formats

2005-06-03 Thread Robin Laing
cono wrote: Robin Laing wrote: If you want a good idea of how Microsoft views Open formats, look at their response to the idea of including OASIS filters in Word. The details are on the OASIS web site. http://www.oasis-open.org/home/index.php Hi Robin, Could you pls be more specific

Re: [discuss] 2.0 Beta version Calc minor problem

2005-06-03 Thread Peter Kupfer OOo
Michael Langenes wrote: To anyone who is involved in programming, I was editing a spreadsheet in Calc and went to 'Save As' to rename the file I was working on. Everything was in English like it was supposed to be for the English version I am using except two check boxes under the new

Re: [discuss] Please put actual filename in header bar

2005-06-03 Thread Rich
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: ... All platforms that OOo runs on (or at least the ones I know) support long file names, so the easiest way to see the title for all document also in OOo2.0 is making title and file name the same. ;-) The only case where I really prefer the title

Re: [discuss] Please put actual filename in header bar

2005-06-03 Thread Peter Kupfer OOo
Rich wrote: Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: ... All platforms that OOo runs on (or at least the ones I know) support long file names, so the easiest way to see the title for all document also in OOo2.0 is making title and file name the same. ;-) The only case where I really

Re: [discuss] Please put actual filename in header bar

2005-06-03 Thread Rich
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: Rich wrote: ... if properly used it could be useful part of document management systems. How, if you never see it? if properly used, you do :) it would be indexed and you could sort/search for it (as one of many fields) -- Rich

Re: [discuss] Please put actual filename in header bar

2005-06-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: 1) What is so bad about having an option? Of course basically nothing except possible bloat. :-) We didn't close the issue, so it can be worked on. My current favorite is to switch on displaying the title not as a global option, but as a document specific one. If you

Re: [discuss] Please put actual filename in header bar

2005-06-03 Thread Mathias Bauer
Rich wrote: oh. i just hate when extension is not shown ;) btw, oo.org does not show extension when opening a .doc file. is this intentional ? also, i managed today with m104 achieve a situation by closing/opening doc/odt files all the time that also odt extension was not shown, so i

Re: [discuss] Please put actual filename in header bar

2005-06-03 Thread Shoshannah Forbes
Mathias Bauer wrote: All platforms that OOo runs on (or at least the ones I know) support long file names, so the easiest way to see the title for all document making title and file name the same. ;-) However, if you are moving a file between comouters (by email, web, CD etc.), non-latin

Re: [discuss] Please put actual filename in header bar

2005-06-03 Thread M. Fioretti
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 18:26:38 PM +0200, Mathias Bauer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 2) What is the point of the title property if it isn't displayed? You can use it in different places. And IMHO the title indeed is superfluous on most operating systems because you can use long file names. The

Re: [discuss] Please put actual filename in header bar

2005-06-03 Thread M. Fioretti
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 07:48:22 AM +0200, io ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Changing the CMS system where all this stuff is archived and searched according to those filenames would cost a lot, so nobody does it. So it may be as ugly as hell, but is not going to go away soon. So, unless you