Re: [discuss] Re: Happy New Year!! About OSS research, Please Help Me!

2008-01-23 Thread Rich
it and delete/mark it read, since there's no way of knowing what the guy is recording in addition to his survey. HTH Twayne -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] [BUG] Numerals formatted as text lead to incorrect calculations

2007-12-13 Thread Rich
„calculates correctly” and OOo „is wrong”. If a solution aleady exist, please add some piece of docs - I think this should be a FAQ. Regards, Răzvan -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands

Re: [discuss] no offer to save files during recovery

2007-12-11 Thread Rich
On 2007.12.11. 09:43, Mathias Bauer wrote: Rich wrote: i remember that, at some point, oo.org offered to save files that were prepared for recovery if i clicked 'cancel'. using m235, i don't get such a window now. has this been removed on purpose ? if so, that has eliminated the chance

Re: [discuss] Impress - multiple screens

2007-11-05 Thread Rich
easy to close by mistake, and too hard (impossible?) to re-open while the presentation is running. it is currently being developed http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Presenter_Screen Regards, Adam -- Rich

Re: [discuss] Change case feature

2007-10-05 Thread Rich
of us subscribe to both. actually, in this case he has the functionality already coded, at least that's how i understood it. if so, don't forget to attach the proposed patch or plugin to the issue - and maybe ask for assistance on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope this helps. Dave -- Rich

Re: [discuss] Notes / comments

2007-08-21 Thread Rich
have thought of clicking on 'watch' before. doing that now =) Ciao, Mathias ... -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Vote for more pretty default colors in charts

2007-02-21 Thread Rich
some problem with my configuration, but that did not work either on firefox, or opera here... Have fun, Ingrid -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Vote for more pretty default colors in charts

2007-02-21 Thread Rich
...and konqueror opens mail with subject Chart colors :: my favorite is so, probably no voting for me :) Rich wrote: Ingrid Halama wrote: Hi chart users, Would you like to see nice new default colors in new charts? Vote for your favorite here: http://ui.openoffice.org/VisualDesign

Re: [discuss] Lack of OOo feature forces writer to move to Windows from Linux.

2006-08-09 Thread Rich
help, its price will help more, and its availability in so many languages can't hurt either. ] -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Lack of OOo feature forces writer to move to Windows from Linux.

2006-08-07 Thread Rich
as a trade off between current speed and open standards I'll stick with open standards, thanks. Ian -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] 7-Zip Compression Format

2006-07-19 Thread Rich
) etc OASIS standard, and is, or soon will be, an ISO standard. It is used by http://ooonewsletter.blogspot.com/2006/05/links-on-odf-iso-announcements.html other programs, like KOffice, Writely, and AbiWord. It's out of our hands now. ... -Chad ... -- Rich

Re: [discuss] 7-Zip Compression Format

2006-07-18 Thread Rich
wrote: In your next releases, replace support for Zip with 7-Zip ODF compression. It is free and open-source, and the compression rates are generally better. It performs better than Zip. Thank you, Devoted OpenOffice user -- Rich

Re: [discuss] 7-Zip Compression Format

2006-07-18 Thread Rich
the extractor. I thought the releases group was going to start using it - but I guess they haven't been. that's about installer - but the original poster mentioned odf in his message, so that seemed to be a suggestion to replace zip with 7z in file formats. ... -- Rich

[discuss] blurred icons in 2.0.2rc4

2006-03-06 Thread Rich
to that issue then ? -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] log files for error reporting

2006-01-26 Thread Rich
course of action for end users, but for the geeks and nerds (like me) I KNOW they'll want to pry into the processes. Rigel -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] XML Parsing Speed and Tag-size (WAS: Email vital for Desktop Linux adoption, prime role available for OOo)

2005-12-07 Thread Rich
you were trying to say here. i think that was a complete sentence. as i understand it, there is a possibility that removal of whitespace might give speed gains for some reason, but it would be completely unrelated to the uncompressed filesize. .. -- Rich

Re: [discuss] OO.org 2.0 circular installation problem

2005-11-22 Thread Rich
package formats :) ) rpm2tgz in some cases lost some installation scripts and i have had a better experience with rpm when managing rpm packages. oh, btw theres an error at the end of page 11 - commandline for removal lacks a dash in front of nodeps :) -- Rich

Re: [discuss] Re: Manual available for OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-11-04 Thread Rich
for him. .. -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Re ZDNet article

2005-11-02 Thread Rich
of ram i try to avoid simply keeping oo.org open as i tend to keep a lot of applications open at the same time and oo.org is somewhat too greedyy ;) (even though a longer time is required to open it) -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [discuss] Google - no thanks

2005-10-14 Thread Rich
... Cheers, Daniel. -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Suggestion

2005-10-11 Thread Rich
(posted hours ago) that the default behavior isn't what you think it is, rendering your entire objection pointless. -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Suggestion

2005-10-10 Thread Rich
that's exactly what pre-2.0 builds do ;) if they don't, it is a bug. -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Writer About Box

2005-10-07 Thread Rich
not make sense. James Walker -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] rpm only in newest openoffice2 beta

2005-10-04 Thread Rich
. this is a philosophical issue, i was very happy about all platform binaries, making openoffice the only *office for me. .. -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Installproblem OOo 1.1.5

2005-10-02 Thread Rich
would still have access to 1.1.3 Carl Spitzer wrote: Suse 9.2 OOo 1.1.3 installed I downloaded OOo 1.1.5 and installed as root. How do I fix all the various links to bring up 1.1.5? CWSIV -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [discuss] Breaking News: Massachusetts mandated use of OpenDocument is FINAL

2005-09-26 Thread Rich
has published the news at his blog: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog_comments.jspa?blog=384entry=95750ca=drs-bl ~ge~ Whiskey for my men and beer for our horses, It's been another good day fighting evil forces! -- Rich

Re: [discuss] Standard Spreadsheet formulas, was: Breaking News: Massachusetts mandated use of OpenDocument

2005-09-26 Thread Rich
thanks for the link - and article really does the job of explaining the problem :) of course, it would have been better if openformula could have been completed together with od so that od could refer to openformula. Marco Fioretti wrote: Rich wrote: .. if so, what could be the solution

Re: [discuss] Question

2005-09-26 Thread Rich
/2.0beta2/index.html I think the latest is still 1.1.125 ... /paul .. -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Installproblem OOo 1.1.5

2005-09-19 Thread Rich
and see wther output provides any clues (if the error is the same as with 1.1.5, solution is the same, too ;) ) -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] new product project recomendations

2005-09-13 Thread Rich
the faq : What is planned for the future releases? Most of important features will arrived soon. Actually the week end skipping is support on the 1.11. The other main importants features are undo/redo, msproject compatibility... .. -- Rich

Re: [discuss] new product project recomendations

2005-09-13 Thread Rich
Ian Lynch wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 14:14 +0300, Rich wrote: .. there are a lot of half-developed projects at this area, also some that are considered pretty mature. unfortunately, i haven't had time to evaluate them myself, but one project that was ecommended was http

Re: [discuss] old developer builds in issuezilla

2005-09-07 Thread Rich
Mathias Bauer wrote: Rich wrote: i was filling an issue and again i thought - why the hell are there all those old builds in version field - like m13 - anybody, m13, no ? even if somebody would file an issue with 680m13, answer probably would be to check with later build. finding the correct

[discuss] old developer builds in issuezilla

2005-09-05 Thread Rich
is possible, but hard enough. why are there all those old builds ? is there really _any_ use for them ? -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Re: old developer builds in issuezilla

2005-09-05 Thread Rich
but do these issues somehow require this build in a box where i choose version for new issues ? if so, it is a serious drawback in issuezilla ;) though i hope if this really is the problem, it will be solved by tigris Ain Vagula wrote: Rich wrote: i was filling an issue and again i thought

Re: [discuss] dictionary development for oo.org

2005-08-26 Thread Rich
isn't there anybody involved in dictionary creation/maintenance process - or at least somebody who could point me to the correct person ? there might be a chance to improve oo.org, and i would hate to miss it because of lack of information. Rich wrote: i tried sending my questions to dev

Re: [discuss] dictionary development for oo.org

2005-08-26 Thread Rich
, Jörg -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] dictionary development for oo.org

2005-08-25 Thread Rich
will be redirected to correct list that i could post without subscribing :) (i am subscribed to discuss) Rich wrote: i have some questions regarding development of dictionaries for oo.org. i'm sorry if some of them are silly, but i have no knowledge of internal structure of these tools and processes

Re: [discuss] Re: Word doc max size ?

2005-08-08 Thread Rich
Morgan Ohlson wrote: On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:37:17 +0300, Rich wrote: there shouldn't be a difference where the document came from - oo.org anyway imports it to internal structures. document complexity is important, of course. 700mhz should be more than enough for even much longer documents

Re: [discuss] Multiple Versions of Documents

2005-06-30 Thread Rich
- it's not a bug, it's a feature! I'd like to know if any other users have made use of the version saving capabilities in OO.o 1.1.4 (and earlier) to maintain an audit trail of document changes, and whether they share my dismay at its disappearance in OO.o 2.0? Regards. Peter HB -- Rich

Re: [discuss] Send document as email?

2005-06-14 Thread Rich
if there is a OS-issue. -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Performance comparison of OO.org 1.1.4 and MSO 2003

2005-06-13 Thread Rich
/index.html I have nothing to say about it, I haven't even read it all since I don't plan to use MSO anyway, but it might be interesting for others. HTH, Marco -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

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

2005-06-03 Thread Rich
want anybody else to have them ;) 2) What is the point of the title property if it isn't displayed? if properly used it could be useful part of document management systems. Have a good one. -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail

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] Calendar functionality

2005-05-27 Thread Rich
? Daniel No, it's been a part of the Microsoft Office System for years. -CHad Smith -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Russia saved by GNU/Linux and OpenOffice.org

2005-05-24 Thread Rich
are still very useful. All the best Jacqueline McNally Lead, OpenOffice.org Marketing Project -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Microsoft Russia saved by GNU/Linux and OpenOffice.org

2005-05-24 Thread Rich
that was brought up some time ago (when 1.1.2 was latest, i think...) - at least pics seem familiar -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Open Source Software

2005-05-09 Thread Rich
be installed on slackware box =) slackware definitely isn't easy to set up (compared to suse - or knoppix :) ), so i would not recommend it to anybody who is not interested in tweaking things -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [discuss] Open Source Software

2005-05-05 Thread Rich
boxes, I give away Ubuntu or Xandros. Xandros IMHO is slightly more of a memory hog than Ubuntu. For myself, I use SuSE 9.2 for my legal work, and Linspire 5.0 for audio ripping and editing. The audio editor there is audacity. to be counted - slackware :) -- Rich

Re: [discuss] Collaboration features?

2005-05-02 Thread Rich
this can be done in near future, as lately this has become most visible advantage of msoffice ... -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] text frames vs frames

2005-04-27 Thread Rich
to change heigth of every frame. am i misunderstanding this sentence or is this left over from some old version of oo.org ? -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Again on: Incompatibility between OO.o 2.0 and MS Word

2005-04-25 Thread Rich
in it, or is the document structure/template restricted to? Perhaps we should create a macro that replaces all text in a document by nonsense text with the same number of characters, but lets all formating untouched? Best regards, Mathias -- Rich

Re: [discuss] Again on: Incompatibility between OO.o 2.0 and MS Word

2005-04-25 Thread Rich
with different word version sometimes removes the problematic part) or are we talking about msword macro ? Mathias Bauer wrote: Rich wrote: as the problem usually is with word documents, how could oo.org macro remove text without changing anything else ? Not *removing* but *replacing*, perhaps

Re: [discuss] Incompatibility between OpenOffice 2.0 Writer and Microsoft Word

2005-04-20 Thread Rich
applications, internal financial reports and similar things that you just *cannot* send outside the company. if you trust developers, you can file an issue, but send document directly to the developer, instead of attaching it to the issue ;) ... -- Rich

Re: [discuss] Acute problems in OpenOffice.org development?

2005-04-20 Thread Rich
from outside and then complain about it ? :) Cheers, Daniel. -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Re: Has sun sacked half its developers?

2005-04-20 Thread Rich
had no idea which build had that fix integrated. now i can search for cws and see when has it been integrated :) ... -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] fastest mirror ?

2005-04-15 Thread Rich
say, i want to take 1.9.95 (which was announced recently) and play with it in the weekend. unfortunately, i will have no internet connection in about one hour. so, what's you experience - which mirror first gets new releases ? :) -- Rich

Re: [discuss] fastest mirror ?

2005-04-15 Thread Rich
hmm The following URL could not be retrieved: ftp://ftp.stardiv.de/mirmon/mirror-state.html Squid sent the following FTP command: CWD mirmon and then received this reply mirmon: No such file or directory. damn :) Justin Clift wrote: Rich wrote: say, i want to take 1.9.95 (which was announced

Re: [discuss] fastest mirror ?

2005-04-15 Thread Rich
ok, sorry about previous mail. for some reason thunderbird sent ftp link to opera - using http it works. thanks :) Justin Clift wrote: Rich wrote: say, i want to take 1.9.95 (which was announced recently) and play with it in the weekend. unfortunately, i will have no internet connection

Re: [discuss] tabs as a new feature

2005-04-06 Thread Rich
comes and we are in a need for some nice feature that might distinct us from mso (although lately it seems the other way - functionality is reduced to mimic mso), we could pull this out and evaluate. Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Rich, Rich wrote: this just made me remember about multi-purpose document

Re: [discuss] Re: Flickering icons

2005-04-06 Thread Rich
Rod Engelsman wrote: Rich wrote: oh, this actually is directly dependant on oo.org :) (actually just recently, when native widget support was introduced, Joost Andrae kindly informed me on discuss list how i could force use of generic widgets) so, to run with generic widgets you should run

Re: [discuss] Table floating toolbar position

2005-04-05 Thread Rich
report / suggestion and you will also see the progress of this feature / bug report if it is accepted. IIRC this issue is known already, and moreover it is not very good reproducable. It seems to appear only on Linux, but only on some systems. Best regards, Mathias -- Rich

Re: [discuss] Re: Flickering icons

2005-04-05 Thread Rich
with the generic nv driver. Rod -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] tabs as a new feature

2005-04-05 Thread Rich
of the toolbar) would be fantastic! Thumbs up or down? Cheers Ingo -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] Re: Flickering icons

2005-04-05 Thread Rich
, so it should be in K-system-konsole) : export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen; soffice if you can revert to nv driver and test oo.org with generic widgets - that might help to find out wether this flickering is the same problem or not. Rod Engelsman wrote: Rich wrote: hmm, interesting. i'm experiencing

Re: [discuss] Table selection problem on Writer

2005-04-04 Thread Rich
something before the table - I created the table as the first item on the page with no space before it. please checkout the attached file for what I mean. Thanks for OO!! Best Wishes, Edward Hew Selangor Malaysia -- Rich

Re: [discuss] Daniel is hired by Microsoft

2005-03-31 Thread Rich
. this was believable... up to this sentence ;D but i must admit, nice one, you got me at first ;) As of next week, the email [EMAIL PROTECTED] won't work. You can reach me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Daniel Carrera Technical Writer -- Microsoft Office division. -- Rich

Re: [discuss] your private showstopper

2005-03-29 Thread Rich
some other people. if you see no need for it - why are you just dying to see it removed (it's very different from implementation from the scratch) completely ? -Chad Smith -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [discuss] your private showstopper

2005-03-29 Thread Rich
Peter Kupfer wrote: Rich wrote: ... daniel has mentioned that some aspects of oo.org seem strange - i, for example, find strange that a feature is removed (and not only from interface, but also functionally) for a completely unfounded reason. Technically, it hasn't been removed from

[discuss] your private showstopper

2005-03-24 Thread Rich
, nice pdf export, shapes and other features make it a really nice improvement), i'll still use 1.1 myself, unless my private showstoppers will go away. -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands

Re: [discuss] OOo2 m84 out now. :)

2005-03-10 Thread Rich
page either... Webmaster hasn't updated the downloads page? Or... This isn't an official build? Rigel ... -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [discuss] generic widget support in oo.org 2.0

2005-02-23 Thread Rich
but what about generic widgets - if the problem exists only with them and not with native ones - should i file them as issues ? will generic widgets be supported ? if yes, how long ? Joost Andrae wrote: Hello Rich, please file such issues if you find them within the current developer snapshot

Re: [discuss] generic widget support in oo.org 2.0

2005-02-23 Thread Rich
so this means that generic widgets will be supported for foreseeable future and problems should be reported ? Joost Andrae wrote: Hello Rich, generic VCL widgets are used if there is no compatible 'native' widget set available eg. if you use the application on a Linux system with fvwm window

Re: [discuss] OOo Install Program Text

2005-02-08 Thread Rich
. Sorry, but people that don't understand checkboxes shouldn't try to work with an application like OOo. They will never get it to work. Or are you opting for such explanations in all check boxes in the program? Best regards, Mathias -- Rich

Re: [discuss] Horrendous v2 changes...

2005-01-30 Thread Rich
wrote: Rich wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: The setting is not removed from the configuration database (obviously because it was forgotten to do that), but it is no longer evaluated in the code. so in this case a feature was removed. not only a setting in options, a feature itself. maybe owner

[discuss] gtk theme in 1.9m74

2005-01-28 Thread Rich
from release notes : 38236 frameworUse GTK theme under KDE/QT environments how can i revert back to old oo.org default ? at least in slackware user interface is extremly slow (and in my case also - quite ugly, but that probably depends on kde configuration) -- Rich

Re: [discuss] Strange markup

2005-01-26 Thread Rich
Robert Derman wrote: Rich wrote: ... Robert Derman replies: This is the way that M$ Word works too, and I don't like it there either! I got used to Wordstar, which was DOS and not WYSIWYG, but when you changed the *default* font, it stayed changed! Frankly, I would like to see a setting

Re: [discuss] Re: Horrendous v2 changes...

2005-01-26 Thread Rich
Joerg Barfurth wrote: Rich wrote: ... But if you want to transfer only a selected subset of your customizations, then you need to know which files to copy (and some files need not be copied at all, as they are transient caches or so). In this case you need a taxonomy of the files or directories

Re: [discuss] Re: Horrendous v2 changes...

2005-01-25 Thread Rich
at least the choice isn't removed, it's only slightly hidden. -Chad Smith -- Rich - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]