[libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-24 Thread aqualung
Tom, With your latest insulting missive you have simply underscored what I suspected: you are not someone to be taken seriously and I shall henceforth ignore you. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Mac-people-tp3092380p3104065.html Sent from the Users mailing l

[libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-24 Thread aqualung
Tom, I will ignore the hostile tone in your reply and the unsupported assertions ("rare", etc.) and simply note that the link you gave applies to installing different versions of LibreOffice on the same computer, not to having both OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice installed. Do you have any useful a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Mac people

2011-06-24 Thread aqualung
Ernest Kurtz wrote: > > Thank you, Alex. Is there any possibility of having an LO Mac list? This > list is deluging my mailbox with queries foreign to my needs and > experience. > The OpenOffice.org community forum does have a http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewforum.php?f=17 M

[libreoffice-users] Re: Side by side install of LibO and OOo

2011-06-21 Thread aqualung
krackedpress wrote: > > Would be interesting to see that, but how many "real world" users would > have both OOo and LibreOffice on the same computer? > Ahem... I am a real-world user, don't I count? I gave two reasons in my opening posting, (1) wanting to have one available when the other fai

[libreoffice-users] Re: Side by side install of LibO and OOo

2011-06-21 Thread aqualung
Jay Lozier wrote: > > I have seen with other file types particularly audio and video files > where you might have two or three players and the last one installed > changes the file associations in the registry to it. > Jay, that's right. A well-behaved program should inform the user during insta

[libreoffice-users] Re: Side by side install of LibO and OOo

2011-06-21 Thread aqualung
Hi Roxy, Jay-- Thank you for your replies but please keep on topic. This thread is not about how to change file associations in Windows or how to set a particular program as the default in Windows. We all know how to do this already (I hope) and we all accept that only one program will launch on

[libreoffice-users] Re: Side by side install of LibO and OOo

2011-06-20 Thread aqualung
Jack wrote: > > I believe there may be some slight issues due to the fact that both > LibO and OOo have the same process name (soffice.exe). Ah-hah! Now we're getting somewhere. It's not about the file types, it's about the "process name". This is potentially a serious issue if it prevents users

[libreoffice-users] Re: Side by side install of LibO and OOo

2011-06-19 Thread aqualung
Twayne wrote: > > IIRC, the use is given the choice of not affecting any other file > associations during the install. Or, it can take over all of them > depending > on which you choose at install time. O.K., good. So, LibO already gives the three-way choice dialog box that I envisioned? I am

[libreoffice-users] Re: Side by side install of LibO and OOo

2011-06-18 Thread aqualung
Cor & Twayne, Thank you for your replies. Twayne wrote: > > > If you think about the preceding paragraph, it's saying that both OOo and > LO > use the same file types and thus there could be confusion to the program > as > to which program should open a given file. Why should there be conf

[libreoffice-users] Side by side install of LibO and OOo

2011-06-17 Thread aqualung
In the Release Notes for LibreOffice 3.3.3, it says: "For Windows users that have OpenOffice.org installed, we advise uninstalling that beforehand, because it registers the same file type associations." It would be nice to have the option of keeping OOo, for the odd case when something that works

[libreoffice-users] Re: Download

2011-04-16 Thread aqualung
Bill Robison wrote: > > Where do I click to download LibreOffice > > This is what I am looking at http://www.libreoffice.org/download/ I am > just > missing something obvious and I downloaded the Help Pack but when I click > install it goes back to installing the help pack and then finds that I

[libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice

2011-04-16 Thread aqualung
Ryan Jendoubi wrote: > > On 16/04/11 07:09, aqualung wrote: >> [...] >> It could be risky for them to reveal much while the situation >> is in flux. At the same time there are hundreds of thousands of users who >> are probably quite anxious to find out what's

[libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice

2011-04-16 Thread aqualung
Tom Davies wrote: > > > "It was a cheap way for Oracle to hurt their rival" ?? Sun you (Ellison) > idiot. Not Oracle, but Sun was the company that owned OpenOffice and did > the > work of preventing the community from developing the product. > Ahem, Tom... Those were my words, so I guess

[libreoffice-users] Re: Ellison's Oracle washes hands of OpenOffice

2011-04-15 Thread aqualung
Very interesting. Quote from article: "Although LibreOffice provided an alternative, it's sorely lacking in the kind of brand recognition held by OpenOffice, while as a fork it was within Oracle's power to accept changes in LibreOffice back in the main code base." I was under the impression that

[libreoffice-users] Re: I am downloading LibreOffice to try it out.

2011-04-10 Thread aqualung
Ken (and Robert), Ken Springer wrote: > > If you think finding Nabble and other help in the Libre Office site is > hard, try Mozilla!! Horrendous!l Great eye candy, but not particularly > functional for finding help. > True indeed. That's why http://forums.mozillazine.org Mozillazine , a vo

[libreoffice-users] Re: I am downloading LibreOffice to try it out.

2011-04-09 Thread aqualung
I've noticed there was some talk among the moderators about whether to allow the above post through. I do apologize, I should have kept my amusement to myself. After all, for the people who came here to find answers to their questions it was no laughing matter. Possibly what caused the "crossed w

[libreoffice-users] Re: I am downloading LibreOffice to try it out.

2011-04-07 Thread aqualung
No offense to any of the participants (seriously!) but this thread is pure comedy gold -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/I-am-downloading-LibreOffice-to-try-it-out-tp2790818p2792483.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe

[libreoffice-users] Re: Word Count Progress Bar

2011-03-21 Thread aqualung
Great, I hope you make this into a .oxt extension and upload it to the extensions repository! -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Word-Count-Progress-Bar-tp2710396p2711100.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: