[discuss] Keep getting error: "personal settings are locked"

2006-07-20 Thread Ernst de Haan
Every time I boot my machine and then start OpenOffice.org, I get an error message: "Either another instance of OpenOffice.org is accessing your personal settings or your personal settings are locked. [...] Do you really want to continue?" I didn't have this before. It started somewhere around

Re: [discuss] Keep getting error: "personal settings are locked"

2006-07-20 Thread Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg
Ernst, Ernst de Haan wrote: Every time I boot my machine and then start OpenOffice.org, I get an error message: "Either another instance of OpenOffice.org is accessing your personal settings or your personal settings are locked. [...] Do you really want to continue?" I didn't have this befor

Re: [discuss] Keep getting error: "personal settings are locked"

2006-07-20 Thread Ernst de Haan
if I understand correctly, this message keeps popping up, with every start of OOo?! No, with every boot. And at boot time, OOo automatically starts the quickstarter. And then I get the error message. OOo checks for a running instance by looking for a .lock file in the user preferences (~/.open

Re: [discuss] Keep getting error: "personal settings are locked"

2006-07-20 Thread Andreas Schlüns
Kay Ramme - Sun Germany - Hamburg wrote: Ernst, Ernst de Haan wrote: Every time I boot my machine and then start OpenOffice.org, I get an error message: "Either another instance of OpenOffice.org is accessing your personal settings or your personal settings are locked. [...] Do you really wa

Re: [discuss] Keep getting error: "personal settings are locked"

2006-07-20 Thread Ernst de Haan
Andreas, There exists a bug inside OOo 2.0.3 regarding this lock file. Normaly it's removed on closing OOo. So next start of an office does not show this message. But if you dont close the office but logout from e.g. windows these lock files inst removed successfully. So you will get this

Re: [discuss] Using OO with screen magnifier

2006-07-20 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Jens Gierke wrote: Hi! First of all I've to say that my English is not the best but I hope you will understand what I want to say^^ no problem, You know there is a german user list, too, at http://de.openoffice.org/ ? Because of a visually impairment I have to use a screen magnifier (

Re: [discuss] Free viewer for OpenDocument, TextMaker, Microsoft Word, and RTF

2006-07-20 Thread Chad Smith
On 7/19/06, André Wyrwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But "microsoftoffice.com" is not "officesuites.com". That's the difference that makes it dodgy to me. I still don't see the difference, but you can see things as dodgy that you want to see as dodgy, as you said. So it's generic. So what?

Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread Mathias Bauer
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Is there a way to take an OO.o doc, get all letters replaced with X or x, > metadata stripped, embedded images replaced by blanks with the same sizes, > and every other names (variables, bookmarks, fields, references, > color/style names) anonymized? Replacing the text sh

Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread Robin Laing
Mathias Bauer wrote: Nicolas Mailhot wrote: As most bugs happen on complex documents, most complex documents are created in corp-space and corporations don't like disseminating internal info for debugging purposes I suppose I'm far from the only one with knowledge of bugs but no way to report

Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 11:41:16 AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have several complex corp documents which make OO.o go crazy one > way or another. I'd like to report the bugs to get them fixed, but > OO.o devs will just ignore me without test documents and there's n

Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le jeudi 20 juillet 2006 à 09:54 +0200, Mathias Bauer a écrit : > Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > Is there a way to take an OO.o doc, get all letters replaced with X or x, > > metadata stripped, embedded images replaced by blanks with the same sizes, > > and every other names (variables, bookmarks,

Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread Robin Laing
M. Fioretti wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 11:41:16 AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I have several complex corp documents which make OO.o go crazy one way or another. I'd like to report the bugs to get them fixed, but OO.o devs will just ignore me without test documents

Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread Robin Laing
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le jeudi 20 juillet 2006 à 12:59 -0600, Robin Laing a écrit : There is one benefit to making the changes manually. You may find the part of the document that is causing the problem. And then 90% of testers won't finish the gruelling anonymizing work, the problem won

Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 20:39:38 PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > For once we disagree No problem, it happens to outstanding minds :-) With respect to your remark that theory is greatly different from practice and that: > So as long as you don't get caught and don't crash you

Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 23:38:37 PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Not surprising, it only reflects the tester/average user ratio. Do > you want to make tester life easier, because they are few and you > need to nurture them, or do you want to discriminate against them > because

[discuss] "Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index"

2006-07-20 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
There has been comment in the media about a report on a French language website: "Le ministère de la Défense met OpenOffice à l'index" The ZDNet article [1] claims to describe the proceedings of a confidential meeting within the French public administration. It is not appropriate for the Op

Re: [discuss] Anonymizing documents for QA & bug reporting

2006-07-20 Thread André Wyrwa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, very nice discussion, guys. Interesting. It's nice to see an actual rollout of the problems beyond pure idealistic enthusiasm. ;-) > Hey, don't get me wrong, we're on the same side. What gave you the > impression that I want to discriminate test