[Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-07 Thread Pedro
Hi all The most frequent questions from people providing help in the User mailing list and in the Bug tracker is: "What is your OS architecture?", "Are you using the 32 bit version of LibreOffice ?" Isn't it possible that this information is included in the About dialog? In addition to Version

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-07 Thread V Stuart Foote
@Pedro, * Pedro wrote > The most frequent questions from people providing help in the User mailing > list and in the Bug tracker is: "What is your OS architecture?", "Are you > using the 32 bit version of LibreOffice ?" > > Isn't it possible that this information is included in the About dialog?

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-07 Thread Pedro
Hi Stuart, all V Stuart Foote wrote > And, when the 64-bit build of LibreOffice is installed, it is already > labeled (x64), as in this example: > > Version: 5.1.1.2 (x64) > Build ID: fe4d9e69c82c6ee6db3c27cd5e2d47558afa80ac > CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Windows 6.29; UI Render: default; > Loca

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-07 Thread V Stuart Foote
See this MSDN note: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724832%28v=vs.85%29.aspx -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/More-information-in-About-dialog-tp4177879p4177892.html Sent from the QA mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-07 Thread Pedro
V Stuart Foote wrote > See this MSDN note: > > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724832%28v=vs.85%29.aspx Ok. So LibreOffice is not getting the Windows version correctly. In fact, if I open a command window I get "Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]" which makes sense

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-08 Thread Yousuf 'Jay' Philips
Hi, I had mentioned the issue to Meeks last week and he said "Oh - so; those numbers have to go through a mapping table to be human readable. And - worse - they are now trying hard not to expose windows version information in their new APIs." On 03/08/2016 03:13 AM, Pedro wrote: V Stuart Foot

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-10 Thread Tommy
Pedro wrote: Hi all The most frequent questions from people providing help in the User mailing list and in the Bug tracker is: "What is your OS architecture?", "Are you using the 32 bit version of LibreOffice ?" Isn't it possible that this information is included in the About dialog? In additi

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-11 Thread Pedro
Hi Tommy Tommy wrote > Version: 5.2.0.0.alpha0+ > Build ID: f64a190f52f9e9c76c2a0d18f072938b5df93aae > CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Windows 6.29; UI Render: default; > TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2016-02-28_14:15:03 > Locale: it-IT (it_IT) > > but I think it would be easier to see

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-11 Thread M Henri Day
2016-03-07 18:47 GMT+01:00 Pedro : > Hi all > > The most frequent questions from people providing help in the User mailing > list and in the Bug tracker is: "What is your OS architecture?", "Are you > using the 32 bit version of LibreOffice ?" > > Isn't it possible that this information is include

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-11 Thread Pedro
Hi Henri mhenriday wrote > Version: 5.1.1.2 > Build ID: 1:5.1.1~rc2-0ubuntu1~trusty0 > CPU-trådar: 4; Version av operativsystem: Linux 4.2; UI-rendering: > standard; > Språkinställning: sv-SE (sv_SE.UTF-8) > > but no information on whether the version I have installed is, in fact, > 32-bit or 64

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-11 Thread M Henri Day
​2​ 016-03-11 13:00 GMT+01:00 Pedro : > Hi Henri > > mhenriday wrote > > Version: 5.1.1.2 > > Build ID: 1:5.1.1~rc2-0ubuntu1~trusty0 > > CPU-trådar: 4; Version av operativsystem: Linux 4.2; UI-rendering: > > standard; > > Språkinställning: sv-SE (sv_SE.UTF-8) > > > > but no information on whether

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-11 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 01:16:14PM +0100, M Henri Day wrote: >​Thanks for your speedy reply, Pedro !​ My Linux Mint 17.3-version is, on >the contrary, a 64-bit version, which I could confirm by running uname -a >in a terminal, as seen below : >  >Linux XX 4.2.0-

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-11 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 01:16:14PM +0100, M Henri Day wrote: > Assuming that the logic that Stuart mentioned for LibreOffice under > Windows > also applies to Linux (it should) then since your LibreOffice reports > "Version: 5.1.1.2" it is the 32bit (x86) version (otherwise it w

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-11 Thread M Henri Day
2016-03-11 14:28 GMT+01:00 Rene Engelhard : > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 01:16:14PM +0100, M Henri Day wrote: > >​Thanks for your speedy reply, Pedro !​ My Linux Mint 17.3-version > is, on > >the contrary, a 64-bit version, which I could confirm by running > uname -a > >in a termi

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-11 Thread V Stuart Foote
mhenriday wrote > I'd still like to know how to confirm that the same is true of the > LibO version I have installed Suspect a terminal session with cd to the LibreOffice installation and running "file soffice" would suffice. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundatio

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-11 Thread Pedro
Rene Engelhard wrote >> Assuming that the logic that Stuart mentioned for LibreOffice under >> Windows >> also applies to Linux (it should) then since your LibreOffice >> reports >> "Version: 5.1.1.2" it is the 32bit (x86) version (otherwise it would >> say >> "Version: 5.1

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-11 Thread M Henri Day
2016-03-11 15:05 GMT+01:00 V Stuart Foote : > mhenriday wrote > > I'd still like to know how to confirm that the same is true of the > > LibO version I have installed > > Suspect a terminal session with cd to the LibreOffice installation and > running "file soffice" would suffice. > ​Thanks,

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-11 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2016-03-07 at 10:47 -0700, Pedro wrote: > The most frequent questions from people providing help in the User mailing > list and in the Bug tracker is: "What is your OS architecture?", "Are you > using the 32 bit version of LibreOffice ?" Originally I was rather nervous about exten

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-11 Thread V Stuart Foote
Pedro wrote > It couldn't be simple and consistent, could it? Actually, I had thought the (x64) was being applied to info "About" dialog for all builds =) But perusing the code showed it had only been done to distinguish the 64-bit Windows builds. [1] Hmm, maybe I need to spend more time in Li

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-11 Thread Pedro
Hi Stuart, all V Stuart Foote wrote > Anyhow, Michael M.'s suggested easy hack looks to provide hooks for a > consistent indicator on all build platforms. Any takers? Code is a foreign incomprehensible language to me, but as far as I can tell, Michael is referring to "GetHWOSConfInfo" which I a

Re: [Libreoffice-qa] More information in About dialog

2016-03-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 09:52:15AM -0700, V Stuart Foote wrote: > But perusing the code showed it had only been done to distinguish the 64-bit > Windows builds. [1] Hmm, maybe I need to spend more time in Linux sessions. > > Anyhow, Michael M.'s suggested easy hack looks to provide hooks for