Re: OO updates

2015-07-15 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Jul 14, 2015, at 23:52, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > +1 for NO "ribbon" style GUI. > > http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/software/2014/02/20/why-the-microsoft-office-ribbon-is-still-ru/2 > > CUA menus work and work well, for anyone who can read the user interface's > language. +1 for no ribbon

Re: OO updates

2015-07-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Simon Phipps wrote: It is however expected to feature a fix for the security vulnerability CVE-2015-1774 The fix has been in trunk since May 1st (I know you know, but maybe someone missed this) and it is now in the recently created 4.1.2 branch too. This note, recently posted, has some reason

Re: OO updates

2015-07-14 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Are you asking about the ribbon? Could you please be more specific? > (There is no intention to make Apache OpenOffice Writer into an MS Word > 2013 work-alike. +1 for NO "ribbon" style GUI. http://www.bit-tech.net/bits/software/20

RE: OO updates

2015-07-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Two questions. 1. What do you mean by full support for xlsx and docx "extensions?" (There is no plan to change the support for .xlsx and .docx in 4.1.2, the forthcoming maintenance release.) 2. What do you mean by "MS Word 2013 style toolbars?" Are you asking about the ribbon? Could you p

Re: OO updates

2015-07-14 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Daniel Sherman wrote: > Can we expect OO updates soon or has that function been passed to Libre > Office? Libre Office is a different project. This project will never "pass any function" to LibreOffice. This list is about Apache Open Office. FC

Re: OO updates

2015-07-14 Thread Simon Phipps
Hi Daniel, Just to add to what Andrea has said and save you from having to read the whole dev list, his full proposal for the bugfix release he describes is at: http://markmail.org/message/tm4vqrtqrxoi4wo5 There are not expected to be any new features, including those you request. It is however e

Re: OO updates

2015-07-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 14/07/2015 Daniel Sherman wrote: The last update was almost a year go. Can we expect OO updates soon OpenOffice 4.1.2 is in the works and will be released this Summer. You can find many relevant discussions and follow activity on the dev list: http://markmail.org/search/?q=list%3Aorg.