Re: [discuss] Re: Article: OpenDocument vs MS XML

2005-11-27 Thread Daniel Carrera
Wesley Parish wrote: I suspect Microsoft dragged over some of their programming gurus from arcane C/C++-using projects to draft this standard, because it's got the feeling of the Microsoft Standard variable-naming procedures that I've seen discussed in various programming magazines here and

Re: [discuss] Re:Online only apps

2005-11-27 Thread Chad Smith
No. It's not off topic. From The mailing lists page of OOo http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is intended for discussions on OpenOffice.org and Open Source. Last I checked, Linux was open source. So is Tux Racer, FreeCiv, and SuperTux. This topic is very

Re: [discuss] A genuine open-standard format

2005-11-27 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 02:17 +, Daniel Carrera wrote: Microsoft is very clever. It wouldn't shock me if they came up with a way to do that. They shouldn't be underestimated. Based on past evidence even someone with no brains would realise that. Since MOOX is technically inferior to ODF

Re: [discuss] Re: file converters

2005-11-27 Thread Mathias Bauer
Chad Smith wrote: The downside to OOo offering these other filters isn't bloat - it's a matter of freedom. StarOffice pays companies for the right to use their filters. OOo, being free, can't do that. Also many of the filters are of a propriatary nature that precludes their inclusion in a

Re: [discuss] Re: Think free gets ahead of Sun and Google with OOo!

2005-11-27 Thread Mathias Bauer
Chad Smith wrote: I agree. If this does turn out to be based on OOo, they've done a good job of hiding it - and offering stuff that OOo is unable or unwilling to offer - like the online-based version. I was playing around a bit with Thinkfree. At least starting one of the applications the

Re: [discuss] Re: Article: OpenDocument vs MS XML

2005-11-27 Thread mark
Daniel Carrera wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: I suspect Microsoft dragged over some of their programming gurus from arcane C/C++-using projects to draft this standard, because it's got snip Arcane? Uh, you mean like OpenOffice.org's codebase? Or all of Linux? Or Firefox? mark yes, I

Re: [discuss] A genuine open-standard format

2005-11-27 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/27/05, Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This a case where you can't be pro-MS and Pro-ODF/OOo. You can be pro-OOo without being pro-ODF. -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!

Re: [discuss] Envelopes

2005-11-27 Thread Cor Nouws
Jack Fisher wrote: A little better support for printing envelopes would make a fine program a lot better. There are no instructions for setting up envelopes for printing. Choose Insert Envelopes for the very clear interface, and a button to extra help... Succes, Cor --

Re: [discuss] Re: file converters

2005-11-27 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:58:02 -, Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chad Smith wrote: The downside to OOo offering these other filters isn't bloat - it's a matter of freedom. StarOffice pays companies for the right to use their filters. OOo, being free, can't do that. Also many

Re: [discuss] Openoffice.org Base

2005-11-27 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 19:15:45 -, martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sirs. After downloading and installing OOo 2.0 for both Windows, and Linux (i86) I was gratified to find that in the Windows version I can at least import tables from an M$ Access database. I was extremely

Re: [discuss] Re: Article: OpenDocument vs MS XML

2005-11-27 Thread Henrik Sundberg
2005/11/26, Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Of course it can be abreviated. What I'm saying is that abreviating it is not going to give you the benefit that you think it will. It will not speed up parsin, it will not make the file load faster. It will save disk space, but I doubt that disk

Re: [discuss] Re: Article: OpenDocument vs MS XML

2005-11-27 Thread Daniel Carrera
Henrik Sundberg wrote: I'd say that smaller files are faster than bigger. The slow down due to the size increase is infinitesimal. See below for an example. It's like arguing that you should use small variables in your python program because that will make the file faster. Anyone who knows

Re: [discuss] add in or plug in idea

2005-11-27 Thread CPHennessy
On Tue November 22 2005 23:07, + rkmsconsultants wrote: [ MODERATED ] hi all iam i user only but love your work if i might suggest a add on or plug in a good contact manager as it is i have to convert to excel or csv then try outlook hahaha or use a 3rd party program

Re: [discuss] add in or plug in idea

2005-11-27 Thread Chad Smith
On 11/27/05, CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chad, Not many people have actually expressed what this PIM part of OOo would be. I have not used MSOffice+Outlook, so I'm not aware of what all the integration there between MSWord and Outlook is. If you could explain what exactly you think

Re: [discuss] Re: Think free gets ahead of Sun and Google with OOo!

2005-11-27 Thread CPHennessy
On Sun November 27 2005 22:51, Alexandro Colorado wrote: I got an email from the CEO of Cosmopod, he add recently OpenOffice.org to his NX server. He asked me about if OOo can be multi-lingual as a network instalation. Of course. once the lang packs are added, do Tools - Options - Language

Re: [discuss] Re: Think free gets ahead of Sun and Google with OOo!

2005-11-27 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:49:42 -, CPHennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun November 27 2005 22:51, Alexandro Colorado wrote: I got an email from the CEO of Cosmopod, he add recently OpenOffice.org to his NX server. He asked me about if OOo can be multi-lingual as a network instalation.