jonathon wrote:
drow wrote:
I propose a joint development with abisource to create a standard Grammar Checker for the open source community.
a) A grammar checking API within OOo is being developed.
b) Roughly half a dozen grammar checkers for OOo are being
developed. One size fits all does
Cor Nouws wrote:
2. Changing and existing Cell's Number Formatting to Text. Would be
better if the result was that what ever was visible previously was
now in the cell. e.g. if I have a date displayed in a cell, changing
the format to Text results in a number in the cell, whilst for the
jonathon wrote:
Chris Monahan wrote:
Styles do lead something to be desired in OO...
A style for tables is one of the missing features.
More useful would be word styles.
Not the technical or the logical aspect of it, just the interface is
slightly broken
The first step would be
Johnny Andersson wrote:
So yes, I use styles all the time and I just love it, but there are a
lot of
things about them to improve. However, just a few improvements (the most
important ones) would probably mean a huge improvement to the intuitiveness
of the product.
I, too, use styles
André Wyrwa wrote:
Hei,
I would treat character styling as a resource or reference style that
would be chosen to apply to higher levels. IOW, instead of directly
specifying character properties in the paragraph style you would choose
the character style (primarily font and size) that you
Mathias Bauer wrote:
We are indeed supporting the Lightning project. Once this will have
reached a final state we can work on possible integrations between
Thunderbird/Lightning and OOo. As both projects (OOo and Mozilla) have
suitable technologies and we are able to bridge between them I'm
Mathias Bauer wrote:
jonathon wrote:
The original code for OOo included a PIM.
A PIM was available as an add on for OOo 1.0.
Really? Not if an add on is more than just another application that you
can install beneath OOo or a playground for some interested developers.
Or what are you talking
jonathon wrote:
Chad Smith wrote:
*PRE-2.0
We don't need a database program! It's useless bloat that takes away
choice from the end user!
Considering that OOo 1.0.x and above contained a databse, adding a
second one can be equated to adding bloat to the program.
If you mean the built-in,
Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
Hi,
I would like to extract a certain font from a word document, which I
read and edit in openoffice 2. I would like to put the font into my
user config directory on a linux machine... Is this somehow possible?
Greetings!
Fabian
No.
Fonts are installed on a
André Wyrwa wrote:
Hi,
Since I have been forced to use Exchange server, my productivity had
taken a nose dive.
such as?
This is a serious question. I strongly believe that OOo can be more
tightly integrated with Mozilla products. Given the both have quite good
extension APIs I even doubt
Christian Einfeldtextra wrote:
Although there are a few procedural red-tape type things left to do -
OpenDocument is guarteeneed ISO standard status as ISO 26300. This likely
means Microsoft's so-called Open XML format will be rejected. This is huge
news for open standards and for anyone who
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
I take your point that you don't like my attitude towards those in
question. Fair enough. Similarly, I don't like the attitudes of those
who choose to use OpenOffice not because it's open-source, but because
they don't have to pay for it, and then have the audacity
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Open-source is an industry when there are people paid to participate in
the process, including people paid to listen to user tantrums.
It's my understanding that the vast majority, like 90+%, of the
programming effort for OOo is performed by paid employees of
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le samedi 29 avril 2006 à 18:29 -0500, Rod Engelsman a écrit :
Having said that, though, I disagree with the characterization that this
would be creating this whole thing from scratch. One of the beauties of
OOo is the code reuse, and a whole lot of the pieces to a PIM
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le dimanche 30 avril 2006 à 10:08 -0500, Rod Engelsman a écrit :
All I'm saying is that a lot of the pieces for this thing already exist
in the OOo code base. In fact, you could prototype a fair amount of this
thing right now just using macros. Heck, OOo even already
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:26:42 -0400, Cor Nouws [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Except when they do the 'inform' every other hour. And any answer
that you give them is not good enough. Then it becomes a liability.
I suspect they ask their
Daniel Kasak wrote:
I still haven't heard a convincing argument as to why anyone needs an
email client integrated into OpenOffice. Why is it so much easier to
send an email when the window title says OpenOffice instead of
Evolution.
First, you're setting up a strawman by focusing on only
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:56:03 -0400, jonathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For my part, I am getting ready to install NetBSD, and use SendMail as
my email client. [At least that program knows how to deal with 10 000
messages per day,]
huh? I am confused, I thought
Michael Adams wrote:
I've watched this whole thing go round and round in circles. I agree
with Daniel that OO.o doesn't need a mail client. I am not too sure
about Evolution though. I think what is needed is good communication
lines with the Gecko/Thunderbird/Sunbird developers. So that the
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:12:23 -0400, Alexandro Colorado
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:42:43 -0400, Robert M. Yannetta
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OpenOffice.org is a great product to export documents to PDF, but why
doesn't the product open PDFs for
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Like I said before this is FLOSS and if you have an itch, you are
welcome to scratch it, but is really annoying when you want other people
to scratch it for you at least when you get an answer and you keep
pointing out why u have that itch.
The problem is that
RBL wrote:
Greg Brandon wrote:
Hi, I'm a former excel user exploring Calc, and I'm used to using the
CTRL-1 key combination (it may not be well-known) in Excel to bring up
the Cell Formatting window, since I tend to use it a lot. Having this
shortcut key in Calc would be really good for
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
A few days ago someone esle ranted about OOo not having a PIM app,
browsing the web I found yet another PIM application for
Linux/Windows/MacOSX.
At the risk of starting another interminable discussion on this topic, I
have to object to this characterization of a
Chad Smith wrote:
It seems that Microsoft is concerned for computer white box makers
income. They are on a campaign to convince the PC makers of the UK that
selling a naked box or a computer without an operating system is not in
their best interest financially. According to Microsoft, the
Tomas Lanczos wrote:
Hello everybody,
From the Open Office package I am using mostly the Impress together with the
Math to prepare my lectures - it is much better for scientific presentations
as the Power Point. The Math is very nice for mathematical expressions, but
it's less appropriate to
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Darrell Feebeck wrote:
As a teacher, I like to create interactive presentations and tutorials
for my students. Usually, I use Flash because MS PowerPoint doesn't
have the functionality for rudimentary decision making. Unfortuantely,
for most instructors
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Liberty wrote:
Every Calculator, Spreadsheet, Compiler, and Interperter, that I've seen
defines 0^0 as 1. If Calc handles it differently than other programs
it could
cause compatabilty issues.
Compatibility is a fair argument. The first calculator I tried (the one
Jonathon Blake wrote:
Chad wrote:
I marginallized his pet project of ODF
What you fail to understand is that Microsoft has lost:
i) The office suite war;
This war won't even seriously begin until the open-source crowd
*seriously* takes on Outlook on the Windows platform.
ii) The server
Andrew Robertson wrote:
Have that large community of users vote for it; this should raise the
priority. :)
Not really. You can easily find issues that are years old with dozens of
votes.
I'm not sure how priorities are actually set, but votes is at best a
minor factor.
--
Rod
Jonathon Blake wrote:
Dave wrote:
1 million rows and up to 16 000 columns
A fully populated worksheet of that size would require 96 768 GB RAM,
just to load.
That comes out to 6,048 bytes per cell. I'm not arguing the point, but
I'm just curious where you got that number.
1. Assuming
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
How much will it cost to build a PIM for OOo, to be able to connect with
the most popular webservices, and also to have the level of integration
and put OpenDocuments and make Online OpenDocuments and live documents
through webservices.
How many work hours from a
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Neither Sun nor Google have enough money to buy the other. The two
companies have similar revenue ($11b for Sun, $6b for Google).
I have no idea if this is true or not of course, but the revenue
comparison is totally irrelevant. The more relevant numbers are market
Chad Smith wrote:
What do you all think - useless bloat, a new way for MS to acheive
vendor-lock-in, a valuable feature, or what?
Useless bloat vs. valuable feature? For any individual I suppose any
advanced feature falls into one or the other of these two categories.
Depends a lot on
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
Actually, OOo offers a more powerful feature (in some ways) that lets
you find the equation of a line without making a chart and makes it easy
to use the slope and intercept in further calculations.
Look in the the linest function. It returns the slope of a linear
Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
He has two choices, he can implement it himself (it's open source) or he
can submit an official feature request and let the community vote for it
(a high vote count can be a good indicator for a fast implementation)
and when somebody else volunteer to implement it the
Rigel wrote:
charting component?
Rigel
Yeah. Check it out here: http://graphics.openoffice.org/chart/chart.html
I didn't find much in the way of a time line or anything else that would
indicate when we could expect this, but my impression is that some new
charting features should be
Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera at zmsl.com writes:
I think you are thinking on a service like Writely, while I am talking
about a web app like EyeOS or PHP-Nuke where you can install on your
intranet and provide it for your company from your local server.
Ok. If it's installed in
No, Donald, don't do that. It's not necessary. The missing help files
for Calc are a known issue with that release and will be fixed in the
next release (hopefully in a few days).
--
Rod
Ray wrote:
Donald,
I would suggest you uninstall the OOo from your computer, deleting and
folders
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 09:25 -0600, Randomthots wrote:
The problem is I don't know a good name for the category of sw that's a
calendar/pim/email such as Outlook or the old Lotus Organizer.
There are apps that work to do the same job. They just don't happen to
be all
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:44, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Well publisher is a dtp joke actually. I wasn't writing let's do
publisher but let's add a serious dtp mode to oo.o
It'll have to get in the queue behind a lot of other rfes unless you
know a source to fund the development.
Sorry about the double-post, I hit Send prematurely.
Ian Lynch wrote:
Both are significantly worse in that respect than Impression Publisher
on the Acorn RISC OS platform in the early 90s. Impression Publisher
could be used quite happily for both word processing and DTP on a 25 MHz
machine with 4
Rich wrote:
hmm, interesting. i'm experiencing the same problem - but only with gtk
widgets. with generic widgets everything was fine.
if possible, can you try the same combination of video drivers and kde
with gtk and generic widgets to see wether this is reproducible with one
or both sets of
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 this in konsole (you're
Rod Engelsman wrote:
Group,
I have recently played with the 1.9.79 and now the 1.9.87 releases.
I've noticed something (actually it's very hard *not* to notice) that I
would like to pin down.
When I pass the mouse over the icons in the toolbar and over buttons
in dialogs, the icons
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Just as with quotation marks, Unicode is trying to undo confusion
introduced by cost-saving measures applied to Victorian typewriters. (I
have seen people -- usually in their late 50's or older -- who will, if
not stopped, use lower-case L instead of the digit one and
Ric Hayman wrote:
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Daniel Carrera wrote:
| Rod Engelsman wrote:
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|This has been an issue for a *l* time, Daniel.
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| My understanding is that the UI has already changed, and now, weeks
before the
| final release, there is a suggestion
Daniel Carrera wrote:
Tony Pursell wrote:
I thought more was going to be done to avoid it and I am amazed that
we still have a setup dialog that virtually invites people to do what they
don't really want to do
But why didn't you say this before the UI freeze?
I saw the OOo snapshot before the
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Why, o why, o why, o why, o WHY can we not have a simple do not break
character attribute?
I'm working right now on transcribing an 18th-century document full of
Mr. Sh and the like (actually, that's two em dashes), and I can
find absolutely no way to prevent
You know, this sort of thing crops up again and again...
A mother buys an ice cream sundae. It has chocolate sauce and whipped
cream on it. Yummy!
Hands it to her little boy, who looks at it and screams, What's the
matter b, no cherry!!?
Here we have a corporation that acquires a major
Rod Engelsman wrote:
Am I the only person with this problem?
Rod
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Jonathon Blake wrote:
And who is going to document the things that are lost for each version
of Word, RTF, etc?
I would imagine the engineers that built the filters would know what
works and what doesn't. Unless they don't test their product.
That and user feedback in IZ.
Rod
Nicu Buculei wrote:
I don't think we should care about
anything else beyond free formats - Ogg Vorbis and perhaps uncompressed Wav
You know what I care about right now? Producing a 25 to 45 minute
presentation in Powerpoint format with voice-over. Personally, I could
give a flying fig whether
Jacob,
First of all, I want to say, Damn you!. I was just about ready to
turn in for the night when I read your post. Now you got me thinking and
I'm going to be up later than I wanted. :)
My suggestion: If you want 6 dimensions, you should have 7 tables.
One each that is a simple list
Juan Carlos Avila wrote:
This is Norman and I can imagine the frustration you are having while
continuing to experience issues on virus warning. I know how important
it is to have your concern addressed immediately and we thank you for
taking the time to report this to us. Your feedback is of
Ralph Aichinger wrote:
Can anybody tell me, if in the following screenshots
the marked menu is really necessary? Some dialogs are
in German, but I think everybody gets the idea:
http://www.pangea.at/~ralph/dialogderhoelle/
What I want to say is the following: The topmost configuration
does not
Mathias Bauer wrote:
Maybe we are talking about different things here.
I'm not against changing the text of a dialog if it is not
understandable (though I still doubt that this is the case here, I can't
see that the instructions are broken).
But explaining to the user what checking and unchecking
Peter Kupfer wrote:
Christian Einfeldt wrote:
On Saturday 05 February 2005 12:46, Peter Kupfer wrote:
Is this real?
IMHO, no, it is phishing.
I sent like 10 messages to the discuss and got one of these. I
didn't cc anyone or anything else. I am subscribed to the list,
and my post made it
Peter Kupfer wrote:
Rod Engelsman wrote:
FYI, the Mozilla folks have another project in the works called
Lightening which is supposed to tightly integrate the Sunbird
calendar/task manager into Thunderbird. It's presently at the
pre-Alpha stage (working up the program specs, etc
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