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Extensions repository: Minutes 2 Tasks 0.5

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:20:04 +0000

The goal for this extension was to have an easy way during meetings to create tasks in a to-do list and manage them afterwards. It presumes that you make minutes and would like to generate a task list during meetings with ease and manage them.
When there is a task that has to be done by you, you activate the macro (through a keystroke or by using the menu). A window box than comes up, where you can fill in the subject of the task, the due dat and some other details. The macro also records in the background the filename if you were making minutes at the moment, the current date and a paragraph selected with text (hopefully related to that action). If no text is selected, no text is recorded.
Afterwards you can call back a report, from a database called TakenDB.odb. It gives all the unfinished tasks, sorted on priority. That database also contains other useful reports, which you can use if you open the database with Open Office Base. The database also contains a form where you can browse through all the tasks and make changes.

Remarks:

First download the zip file at www.vermail.nl/Minutes2tasks/ and the Readme first.pdf which tells you how to install and to use this extension
As I am inexperienced it takes some handwork to install that. I am sorry for that. If some is able to improve, be my guest and create another extension
I've used a lot of code of Dmitri Popov's Writer's Tool. They are great. Thanks. Don't expect that level of polish from this installing process...
This extension calculates the priority of each task. The priority gets calculated, where importance of a task counts 3 times harder than it's urgency (number of days too late):
Priority = Dayslate + (Importance * 3)
Resulting negative values means there is enough time left. The more negative the less hurry to do the task. The tasks with the highest positive number should have the highest priority. Using formula actually works for me quite well!

This extension should work for Windows and Linux (x86 and x86-64). I wouldn't know if it works for OSX, but I guess it should be possible.

IssueZilla: New issues: Sat Nov 21 16:43:00 UTC 2009

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:50:14 +0000

#i107096# - Database access: In a macro, SQL order "Shutdown compact" fails
#i107097# - framework: consolidate external prj parallel build commands and knock 9 minutes off build
#i107099# - l10n: [IT] Typos in Italian autotext
#i107098# - sc: sum.if gives an invalid results

IssueZilla: New issues: Sat Nov 21 04:43:00 UTC 2009

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:43:14 +0000

#i107094# - Database access: Form edit window size shrinks with each save, close and reopen
#i107095# - sw: Application crash on resize of window

Extensions repository: Change Picture

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:04:46 +0000

Allows to change the picture of an existing image in a document. It mimics a function of MS Word 2007 which is only available when working with docx documents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzryfx2GveY
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=91059&highlight=

Additional instructions

Change Picture should be display in a new tool bar in Writer, if is not displayed right after you installed the plug-in, restart OpenOffice. Usually the tool bar will be floating the first time, but I had the experience using it in Cal and is display right next to the standard tool bar.

The code has been improve and now it works with cal, draw and impress, thanks to its new compatibility with GraphicObjectShape objects.

IssueZilla: New issues: Fri Nov 20 16:43:00 UTC 2009

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:46:51 +0000

#i0# - Add 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 to the autocorr replacement table (Tools - AutoCorrect Options - Replace): 107084
#i0# - Description: Word count count hyphens as words. Exemple:: Description: Word count count hyphens as words. Exemple:
#i107079# - Drawing: Move simultaneously the contents of all pages to another layer.
#i107073# - Drawing: OODraw exports to bitmap with spell-check underlines
#i107067# - Presentation: Impress some times fails when you are moving text, moving or selecting multiple slide
#i107082# - Remove "Replace 1/2 ... with ½ ..." from Tools - AutoCorrect - Options tab: 107083
#i0# - Remove help references to option "Replace 1/2 ... with ½ ..." from Tools - AutoCorrect - Options tab: 107086
#i0# - Setting dimension of a Control so that it overlaps another one, leads the second time to a crash: 107092
#i0# - Unable to view issue 107082: 107091
#i0# - Word count counts hyphens as words: 107093
#i0# - [Automation] remove tests concerning option "1/2 ... with ½ ...": 107088
#i107070# - api: direct singleton support in Basic
#i0# - bullet characters should be exported when saving as txt: 107090
#i0# - button merged in standard toolbar + own UI caused office crash: 107087
#i107078# - framework: Busy waiting in multiprocessing mode
#i107077# - framework: restore "build --from" fuctionality
#i107072# - framework: send file (odt, ods, doc, xls,...) fails
#i107076# - gsl: Aqua: OOo unusable on low-resolution screens
#i0# - helpcontent2: ".uno:Thesaurus" will be renamed in ".uno:ThesaurusDialog": 107089
#i107071# - l10n: [DE]: Differential translation in menu 'Changes'
#i0# - limit number of fonts visible in font-selection: 107085
#i107068# - sc: CSV saving bug
#i107075# - sc: Calc crashes on calling the functions AutoPilot while Orca is running
#i107080# - sc: Crash in Calc on Snowleopard with VoiceOver
#i107074# - sc: copy line from calc to outlook 2007
#i107069# - sw: Auto Text Problem
#i107081# - ucb: PasswordContainerInteractionHandler UNO service

Extensions repository: Gallery Electronic Components (russian)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:41:12 +0000

This gallery for create electronic schemes (russian).
Эта галерея предназначена для создания электронных схем. В ней представлены условные графические обозначения базовых дискретных электронных компонентов. Предпочтительные настройки сетки -- разрешение 2,5mm шаг 3.

IssueZilla: New issues: Fri Nov 20 04:43:01 UTC 2009

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:43:45 +0000

#i107054# - Presentation: Support splitting a slide
#i107055# - Presentation: foto.jpg into presentation document.odp
#i107066# - framework: Wont Run
#i107057# - l10n: Update SDF file for Irish (ga), version 3.2
#i107056# - sc: Save as type selection missing from save dialog
#i107065# - sc: [CWS printerpullpages] border around page is on wrong place in N-up printing
#i107062# - sc: line break lost in autofilled cells
#i107064# - sw: Mailmerge removes header and footer
#i107063# - sw: bibliograpy entry in frames of image
#i107058# - tools: config_office: configure test for system db slow and unnecessarily limited
#i107061# - tools: config_office: fedora 12 libcrypt links against libfreebl3.so
#i107060# - tools: config_office: make system jar tests fallback to unversioned jars
#i107059# - ucb: ucb: remove warning in gio code

Michael Meeks: 2009-11-19: Thursday.

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:20:17 +0000

An ineffectual day flailing at too many varied tasks. Managed to do a little real hacking - which was fun - a one line change; hmm.
Got stuck into reading the Chromium code, sad to see an Ubuntu base, but good to see lots of interesting technologies in there: atk, pango, gtk+, clutter, gnome bits - even orbit2. It actually looks like something real, and I'm eager to see what efficiency wins and new tricks those Googlers manage to generate for the common good.

Tor Lillqvist: Photoshop filters in GIMP on Linux

noreply@blogger.com (tml) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:48:06 +0000

GIMP can use 3rd-party Photoshop filters on Linux, too.

Back in 2001, I wrote a piece of software called pspi, for PhotoShop Plug-in Interface. It's a GIMP plug-in that runs Photoshop plug-ins. (Just the "filter" kind of Photoshop plug-ins so far.)

Photoshop filters can be found for free on the net, and on the cover CDs of various magazines. Many of them are just crap, or offer functionality already included with the GIMP. But some can be real gems. I am not a graphic artist and don't have any huge collection of them myself.

Until now pspi has only worked for GIMP on Windows, as Photoshop plug-ins are Win32 DLLs. (Well, on the Mac they are that platform's shared libraries, presumably.)

When I wrote pspi I had in mind that it might well be possible to use it on Linux, too. It would then use Wine for the Win32 emulation necessary to load the Photoshop plug-in DLLs and run the code in them. I didn't have the inspiration or time to work on this myself, though. Now I hear that Mukund has actually done it! He says making pspi build on Linux and adapting it to load the PS plug-in through Wine was not hard at all. See screenshot above. Mukund, you rock. Kudos to the Wine developers, too, of course.

One problem with pspi is that in order to be able to build it from sources, one needs headers from the Photoshop 6 SDK. This SDK used to be downloadable for free from Adobe, but was pulled long ago. Only people with the PS6 SDK can build pspi. It is not legal to redistribute the SDK.

The current Photoshop SDK is much harder to get. It's expensive and requires case-by-case approval from Adobe. It is said to have a license that prohibits using it when developing products that potentially could compete with Photoshop. I haven't seen it myself so I don't know.

I have been told that the PS6 SDK was also bundled with the PS6 product. Buying a legal copy of Photoshop 6, if one can find it (used?) somewhere, seems currently to be the only way to get the SDK. It probably depends on your local legislation whether software can be freely resold by one end-user to another despite what a shrinkwrap license might say. I downloaded my copy of the PS6 SDK back when it was still available from Adobe's site.

Presumably it would be perfectly legal to distribute a Linux binary of pspi built against legally acquired PS6 SDK headers.

Don't ask me for such binaries, I haven't built pspi myself for Linux yet.

The pspi source code is currently GPL, but I am willing to change the license to for instance a MIT-style license. In fact, GPL probably doesn't really make sense for software whose express purpose is to dynamically link to proprietary shared libraries?

Tor Lillqvist: SUSE and Ubuntu binaries of pspi

noreply@blogger.com (tml) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:46:20 +0000

Remember my blog post about how pspi, the GIMP plug-in that runs Photoshop plug-ins, works on Linux, too? You can now download pspi binaries built on SUSE Linux 10 and Ubuntu 5.10 here. Hopefully the binary built on Ubuntu will also work on Debian unstable, for instance. Maybe one of them will work also on Fedora, and other distros. You will obviously need to have wine installed. I have tested against wine version 0.9.9, earlier versions might also work well enough.

I demonstrated pspi running on Linux at the Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon during the weekend. My pictures from Lyon are here.

IssueZilla: New issues: Thu Nov 19 16:43:00 UTC 2009

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:44:53 +0000

#i107045# - Chart: Positioning and alignment of objects within a chart area
#i107044# - Database access: [cws hsqldb19] Table wizard Employees table wrong datatype
#i107040# - Database access: [cws hsqldb19] Table wizard not show decimal places in second step
#i107046# - Drawing: Outputdevice::DrawEPS and transformations
#i107049# - Drawing: Slide pane jumps when selecting slide in the end of presentation
#i107032# - extensions: Extensions can't be installed after download with IE 6 or higher
#i107027# - framework: GNU patch-2.6 (the newest version) not recognized as valid for build
#i107042# - framework: Open Office takes 5-20 minutes to load
#i107036# - framework: OpenOffice detects another instance of itself but there isn't one
#i107053# - framework: Provide redo (repeat, do last command again)
#i107035# - framework: Temporary file for XML stream is not deleted after saving
#i107028# - framework: circle of dependence
#i107039# - framework: export basic lib as extension is broken
#i107025# - gsl: OOO320_m5: WaE: vcl/unx/source/gdi/salgdi.cxx
#i107037# - gsl: Some system keyboard shortcuts are broken
#i107030# - gsl: a fatal error of text height calculation
#i107024# - l10n: Writer help : some English paragraphs are shown in JA
#i107022# - l10n: [JA] translation for "View" is inconsistent
#i107051# - porting: port OOo to linux hppa (parisc)
#i107034# - qa: [Automation] testcases fail due to objects are drawn out of documents area
#i107033# - sc: Calc crash on drag and drop
#i107052# - sc: Confirming range in Function Wizard with Enter is not working anymore.
#i107047# - scripting: some modules empty after opening the IDE
#i107031# - sw: Image flipped is not saved in doc format
#i107050# - sw: Making styles selection/search in document easier
#i107038# - sw: New document page not centered in maximized backing-window
#i107026# - sw: Pasted numbered list should not be continued
#i107043# - sw: Pictures and Table does not display correctly or at all imported from MS Word 2003.
#i107023# - sw: Tooltip for Comment icon is "Note"
#i107029# - sw: WW8: table of contents empty due to not assigned outline styles on import
#i107041# - tools: SourceConfig.pm misinterpretes non-existing 'repositories' sections
#i107048# - tools: checkdeliver needs source_config

Extensions repository: Korektè Òtograf Kreyòl (KÒK)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:59:31 +0000

Korektè Òtograf Kreyòl (KÒK) is a free Haitian Creole Spell Checker developed by LOGIPAM http://logipam.org and Kevin Scannell http://borel.slu.edu/

Gullfoss: Opening up Another Time Capsule: Community Visit in Hamburg

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:29:05 +0000

As Christoph Noack opened a time capsule, let me do the same. Mine goes back 2 months to Sept 17/18/19 when specially invited members of the German-language OpenOffice.org community came to Hamburg. The visitors pictured above, plus me and Marcus Lange from Sun who joined the photo, were (l to r): Marcus Lange, Florian Effenberger, Daniel Stoni, Christian Lohmaier, Elizabeth Matthis (aka Liz), Thomas Hackert Uwe Altmann (not pictured: Gerald Geib, Volker Merschmann)

It was so wonderful to meet face to face people otherwise only known from email and to be able to thank them for their dedication and support. They each traveled here at their own cost (from far corners of Germany and even from Switzerland), which further shows their enthusiasm and dedication to our thriving open source product. On Thursday evening, those who were already in Hamburg met at a pub (Max&Consorten) for a first get-together. Afterward, most of us concluded the evening with a round of beers and more talk at my home---which I jokingly called "Motel Matthis".

Friday started out with a heartfelt word of welcome and thanks from Michael Bemmer, Senior Director of StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Engineering, and unfolded with a series of talks and snacks, including lunch and several smaller group meetings about special topics, until concluding at approximately 5:30 PM.

There were entertaining and informative talks by Stefan Taxhet on OOo in general, Gerd Weiss on infrastructure---including a personal tour of the server rooms to underline some of his points about the hardware, Andreas Bartel on Renaissance and Uwe Fischer on documentation, as well as tours of the engineering facility and opportunities to say hello to many of the OOo developers in real life.

At the end of the very busy but fun day, those of us who still had time went out to eat together at an Italian restaurant (maybe this was to get in the mood for the OOoCon in Italy!) and, several courageous visitors even spent a second night at Motel Matthis! This time Uwe made sure we had enough beer to let us talk long into the night. Thanks, Uwe!

Some comments I received after the visit are:

thackert: "It was interesting to become acquainted with some people I'd only known the mail address or nick of, and to hear really interesting talks as well to "sightsee" SUN. All in all a nice trip and - the best of all - a really nice stay at "Motel Matthis" with a perfect hostess (Liz!)"

floeff: "Thank you very much to everyone who made this visit in Hamburg possible! I'd never been at Sun Hamburg before, and it was a really nice day meeting old and new friends, getting insight on how the OpenOffice.org development works, and after all, we also had a lot of fun and a real great time. Liz is a wonderful hostess and we all enjoyed some very special days in a community that more and more becomes a real family."

VolkerMe: "Thank you again for such a nice day, which was very much too short for me. The opportunity to have personal talks with the engineers at SUN was so interesting, I wasn't able to discuss everything, so I hope I can come back another time. And although it has been said so often: Thanks Liz for hosting the meeting, for the well-prepared accommodation and for being our always smiling guide!

Saturday came too quickly and I had to say goodbye to my delightful guests. I hope to organize another visit to thank additional and like-wise dedicated community members in 2010.

Kind regards,
Liz

native-lang planet: Charles Schulz: Politicians, lobbyists and scapegoats: When choosing not to choose should make you vote the next time

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:40:02 +0000

The famous and much awaited RGI (Référentiel Général d’Interopérabilité) has officially been published and enacted. This announcement was met with mixed reactions and as I have been following the RGI for quite a few years now, I thought I would write some of my thoughts about it.

The RGI is actually old, not just because it was already online as a final draft in May 2009, but because the RGI as a project dates back several years. Its story goes like this: Somewhere in 2006 the decision is made by the French government to draft a public sector-wide policy on IT matters. This policy is to be published in several parts, one on security, another on accessibility and the last one on interoperability. The last one, called the RGI, is published as a draft on the same year and submitted for public comments on a wiki, which was at the time something daring and courageous. The feedback that was received was ominously good. In fact the first version of the RGI was mandating the use of Open Standards, and most notably ODF throughout the whole administration. At that very moment, Microsoft decided it was time to intervene and through a violent strategy of pressure and influence, managed to repel the RGI and have the process restarted. The process did restart and the same document finally got finalized for official approval in 2007. There the RGI progressively fades away, partly because of the presidential elections taking place in France at that time, partly because of a strongly applied pressure from the outside.

The freshly elected government seems to have not so fresh ideas about I.T. Its track record in the matter is probably one of the worst possible as it is the one who authored and championed the Hadopi law (the french three strikes system) and other network censorship legislation. Any communication system that is not controlled by the Hungarian director of police glory of our nation, the President, is progressively being put under his control. In this context one could believe that the RGI would have lost not time being reexamined again. The exact opposite happened, partly because of the neo-conservative bias of the new government who seems to believe in the omnipotence of markets vs State intervention, partly because of a strange proximity with Microsoft (four ministers inaugurated the new Microsoft offices in Paris!) and a common hatred of Google. In this context, the people in charge of drafting the RGI discovered they were deprived of any political support. Moreover, they also realized that the opportunity for a clear policy drafting had gone away. They are public servants, after all, and public servants cannot do a lot without the support of the politicians in power.

This is how we come to the present RGI. The document by itself has been totally rewritten, choosing to leave aside the policy aspect in favor of an exhaustive referencing and classifying of existing technology and standards. This document itself integrates well with the upper echelons of European interoperability framework and does not attempt to dictate what the public sector stakeholders should do. On the crucial question of the office file formats, it is obvious that the authors spent some time carefully choosing their words. While the use of xml-based file format is clearly recommended, ODF is being put under observation (the reason for this is unclear) and so is OOXML, but at least we know the reason for this: OOXML has no known implementation (and won’t have any until a long time, they might have added) and therefore cannot be used.

This is what happens when a government is fiddling too much with powerful corporations and forget the interest of its own people: honest, competent, public servants have to compose with whatever they have in order to keep things going. If I were to judge this document from this standpoint only, I would actually give it a big cheer.The problem is that the whole concept of the RGI has become somewhat of a loaded gun in France, and it is I believe useless to use people of the DGME as scapegoats. With what they have, they could not have done better. But what was at stake was an opportunity for France to become a champion of open standards and sustainable digital future. It’s sad to see this government never gave it a chance. I hope one day we will realize that the ideological bias against any form of openness entertained by the present President and Prime Minister is something akin to the outrageous denial of global warming by the previous U.S. administration.I look forward to the future versions of the RGI, and think they will bring more constructive, innovative and positive elements to the development of a coherent information infrastructure for our national public sector.

Gullfoss: Improved websites to download OpenOffice.org builds

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:20:59 +0000

The current setup of websites for downloading OpenOffice.org installation sets provides builds for several languages and operating systems. But nowadays a lot more are built. Unfortunately they are not that easy to find as they are on mirror servers. The most users do not know this or how to come to these mirrors.

Furthermore there was no comfortable way to download language packs (currently for 96 languages !).

Another reason is that many native language teams have only a small staff or do not have the time to test all available Release Candidate (RC) builds on all platforms for their language. However, these are very close to a final release but have not got the latest tests. But why not offering these to the users with a hint to be carefully when using?

To improve this situation and to deliver more choice we have created a new download website layout.

Main Download Page

http://download.openoffice.org

This website was enhanced to download easily the build you want. Of course the well-known (green) One-Click download remains the same easy way to get your favorite version. The same for the orange button for Developer Snapshots. The new thing is the yellow button that will guide you to the website for Release Candidates.

Full Installations and Language Packs

The improvements were done here to provide all available stable builds:

http://download.openoffice.org/other.html

The first table provides all full installation sets as stable release of the current OpenOffice.org version. The second table provides all stable language packs.

BTW:
A language pack contains only resource files for a specific language and platform to show, e.g., menus, dialogs and error messages in your language. If translated it may contain also the help content. It's a comfortable way to get several languages without to install the applications double and triple. After installation change the languages via menu "Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages - User Interface".

Release Candidates

A complete new website was created to offer all Release Candidates. Also here the first table has links to the full installation sets and the second to all language packs:

http://download.openoffice.org/all_rc.html

Some days ago the 100 millionth download of an OpenOffice.org build was announced. We hope to increase this impressive number with the new download websites.

Happy downloading. :-)

IssueZilla: New issues: Thu Nov 19 04:43:00 UTC 2009

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:43:37 +0000

#i107014# - Presentation: Impress 3.1.1 Extremely slow editing
#i107010# - framework: printerpullpages: Two of four tab pages are not persistent
#i107017# - l10n: Allow Upper Sorbian language as default document language
#i107015# - l10n: Colorsettings are two distinct words
#i107021# - l10n: [JA] there is an inconsistency in translation for "locale'
#i107018# - l10n: [JA] 0,5 should be 0.5 in Japanese
#i107019# - l10n: [JA] Footnote/Endonote has unnecessary prefix
#i107020# - l10n: [JA] translation for "Keep Current Format" is not intuitive
#i107009# - l10n: source_config file / multiple repository support in l10n tools
#i107016# - sc: Copy and paste of dates from spreadsheets with different zero dates
#i107011# - sc: Total number of pages ignores restart of page numbering in Calc
#i107013# - sc: diagram description is overlapping
#i107012# - sc: max 255 characters in xls export

Michael Meeks: 2009-11-18: Wednesday.

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Slept in late, off to the Doctor's, got some antibiotics. Started to feel better, desparately tried to get my still growing E-mail / task backlog under control.

IssueZilla: New issues: Wed Nov 18 16:43:00 UTC 2009

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:43:57 +0000

#i107005# - Chart: wrong import of legend orientation garbles chart
#i106998# - Database access: Crash when accessing a newly created table by keyboard
#i107007# - Presentation: "General error" double-clicking picture
#i107000# - documentation: Brocken list in help on Adding Command button to document
#i106992# - framework: Date format error
#i107003# - framework: Open Chart Dialog destroy Impress Toolbar
#i107006# - framework: PDF export, justified text becomes left aligned
#i107001# - l10n: [DE] Help on Adding Command button to document needs review
#i107002# - l10n: [Fr] Translations not updated after bug fix in code base
#i106991# - l10n: [JA] OLH mismatch with UI (Overlap and Leave gap)
#i106990# - l10n: [JA] OLH mistranslation in chart/00.po (X Axis)
#i106994# - l10n: [JA] some Impress/Draw command contain \t
#i106989# - l10n: [JA] translation for "Fomat Selection" should be improved
#i106997# - qa: [automation] "tToolsCustomize" wrongly reports "Active : Pop-up menu not open"
#i107004# - sc: open XLSX file: hangs and consumes all memory
#i107008# - sc: re opening changed csv file doesn't recognize changes
#i106995# - sc: unable to enable Auto filter Option and text to coloumn conversion
#i106999# - sw: Case conversion does not reflect after copy/paste
#i106988# - sw: Copy/paste problems
#i106996# - sw: Find & Replace \n doesn't work
#i106993# - sw: sfx2, svx: thesaurus code clean-up

Gullfoss: New: OOo-DEV 3.2.0 Developer Snapshot (build OOO320_m5) available

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:53:13 +0000

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev OOO320_m5 which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2.0 has been uploaded.

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Please use the following link:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO320_m5_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO320_m5_md5sums.txt

Gullfoss: New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300_m65) available

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:35 +0000

Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev DEV300_m65 which installs as OOo-DEV 3.2 (subject to change) has been uploaded to the mirror network.

If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.

Please use the following link:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Packages are also available from extended mirror sites ( listed with an [E] ) from the ".../extended/developer/DEV300_m65" directory:
http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors/#extmirrors

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300_m65_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300_m65_md5sums.txt

Caolan McNamara: DEV300_m65

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:45:34 +0000

With DEV300_m65 unused methods reduces to 886 as hwpfilter drops out of the list.

idling
Some other work ongoing on removing permanent timers which are constantly triggering when we should otherwise be idle. 3.2 will have the clipboard polling removed which makes the bare frame idle without wakeups, while patches for making math idle have been applied for 3.3. The spell checking loop in impress and draw never ends at the moment, patch available to fix that, as well as fix the graphic and ole cache manager loops to not run if unnecessary. I’ve no fixes for the more complicated writer and calc idle loops yet however.

strict aliasing
Good bit of progress on making OOo strict aliasing safe as well.

cppcheck
Played around with cppcheck as well, mostly discovered missing checks in various workbench tools and build-time tools, but a few good catches on stl iterators in main-line code, and very good on new[]/new vs delete/delete[]. A few false STL positives as well, but upstream is responsive to bug reports, so next version will give a better set.

IssueZilla: New issues: Wed Nov 18 04:43:00 UTC 2009

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:43:23 +0000

#i106986# - Drawing: Shape Sizing
#i106982# - extensions: "check for updates" - error in OOO320m5
#i106985# - framework: Fedora 12: libstlport_gcc.so: cannot enable executable stack ...
#i106980# - gsl: Bezier hairline printing broken
#i106981# - sc: COUNTIF functionality incorrect with wildcard
#i106983# - sc: In the same column of a spreadsheet, if two entry has same text but different case variation, later entry will be converted to earlier case
#i106984# - sw: All words flagged as misspelled in Writer spell checker
#i106987# - sw: Odd line appearing in text

Michael Meeks: 2009-11-17: Tuesday.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Up before six, urgh - taxi to breakfast meeting with Rob Sinclair, good to meet him in the flesh at last.
Met Claudio & James, off to the briefing centre for much of a day of talking about accessibility of all sorts. Amused at the vituperative reserved for Google's 100% inaccessible Chrome browser - go WebKit !
I'm increasingly convinced that the world writes, (or worse - pointlessly re-writes) things frequently enough that keeping a11y up to date is a vast task. Of course, as we all know - all applications now have to move to the web (2.0) with yet another rats nest of a11y problems, developer training etc. nevermind the frequent cool-toolkit-of-the-year lurches. By the time a11y has caught up, the relentless urge to re-write - usually for 'bloat' reasons (ie. we finally got a mature product that ticks the required boxes) - kicks in, and we end up with a 31337 ultra-lean non-functional replacement (apparently).
Arrived at the Eurostar four hours early; thankfully the management genius' that run this company provide no way to pay a fee to change the time of, or upgrade to a flexible ticket. It seems they prefer to leave money sitting in their hall for hours on end. Buying a new ticket for Eur 100+ is ridiculous, but I'd happily pay the difference to a flexible ticket now. Sat around feeling horribly ill, and wishing I was at home with the wife.

EIS: DEV300_m65 ready for use.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:55:55 +0000

DEV300_m65 has been built by Hamburg RE. No open build problems are known, and smoketest has been passed successfully.

Tasks and their ChildWorkspaces for Milestone DEV300m65

Child Workspaces integrated:

ause103

one more step to align SO and OOo build

ause109

buildfixes and cleanup

automationdev300m62cat0

Fixes for Testautomation based on DEV300m62

changehc02

Change Highcontrast detection from reacting on background color to artificial "HC" mode.

cmcfixes65

Remove low-hanging extra warnings seen with -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2

cmcfixes66

Fix low hanging reports from cppcheck

impress178_DEV300

OOo 3..2 .showstopper cws

pdbrelocation01

source_config adaptions and fixed for pushchecksum and pdbrelocation

smoketest24

adaptions for source_config

vcl106

3.3 issues

dev300m65masterfix

IssueZilla: New issues: Tue Nov 17 16:43:00 UTC 2009

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:44:01 +0000

#i106966# - Chart: Chart selection by double click open Chart Area Dialog
#i106965# - Database access: [cws hsqldb19] Can not insert image to table with image control bounded to BLOB field on Form
#i106964# - Database access: [cws hsqldb19] Field size not changes in table design mode
#i106969# - Drawing: distribute horizontal equal spacing off by one
#i106963# - Presentation: Window does not refresh correctly when one modifies the size of the slide pane quickly
#i106973# - api: Passing Byval does not work with Struct type variable
#i106967# - documentation: Help for Improvement program not displayed
#i106978# - framework: Extension update via HTTPS does not work.
#i106971# - l10n: Serious corrections
#i106970# - sc: Auto-filtering in a spreadsheet with Grouped rows filters only the first group
#i106975# - sc: Use special namespace for storing display name for datapilot tables
#i106977# - sc: truncated time format when importing from xls
#i106972# - sw: Cannot insert after section at end of document
#i106968# - sw: Windows XP Language bar disappears
#i106974# - sw: Writer: text context menus should have a sub menu for thesaurus look ups
#i106976# - tools: Tooling for a split build
#i106979# - www: "Create a new attachment" with wrong color

EIS: OOO320_m5 ready for use.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:55:56 +0000

OOO320_m5 has been built by Hamburg RE. No open build problems are known, and smoketest has been passed successfully.

Tasks and their ChildWorkspaces for Milestone OOO320m5

Child Workspaces integrated:

adc26_OOO320

Fix broken @see tags regression.

automationOOO320m3

automationOOO320m4

[Automation]
Scriptfixes for greenstate OOo 3.2

impressaccessibility6

OOO 3.2 show stopper bug fixes.

jl141

Bundling java 6u17

m

fix for not setting the initials by default in user dialog.

ooo32gsl03

3.2 showstoppers

sdk32fix

Used for late SDK 3.2 fixes

ooo320m5masterfix

IssueZilla: New issues: Tue Nov 17 04:43:00 UTC 2009

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:43:31 +0000

#i106954# - Chart: Add feature to Charts - Series Name
#i106962# - Database access: Base does not launch -- Hangs
#i106957# - l10n: [DE] fixes for CWS localization37
#i106958# - sc: Build GRG Method into solver
#i106959# - sc: Err 509 when I add "=3,4+19"
#i106955# - sc: Linked page styles impossible in Calc
#i106953# - sc: Restart page numbering for each sheet
#i106952# - sw: open-url error
#i106961# - ui: Option to directly set decimal and thousands separator to own liking, regardless of any locale settings
#i106960# - ui: Thin Space (Unicode: U+2009) as Thousands Separator
#i106956# - www: Please create subcomponent in project "eo"

Michael Meeks: 2009-11-16: Monday.

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Up early, feeling shocking; took babes to school, poked the Surgery ineffectually; home, tried to get the laptop into shape, and got to the train, Kings Cross, Brussels etc.
Eventually arrived, gave the address of the hotel to the Taxi driver - he seemed confused; drove to the street - no hotel. It appears that pasting Foo Address\nBrussels into google maps managed to get a hit in Paris, which is where I booked the hotel; bother. Toured the city finding somewhere to stay - ended up in an airport hotel, feeling groggy.

Extensions repository: Screenwright(R) A4 radio script formatting template

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:10:32 +0000

Summary: this free OOo Writer 3.x (+2.x) template will format your radio script for A4 paper.
Based on the original Screenwright(R), a template that won a cash award [details] from Sun Microsystems!

Here's a step-by-step primer for obtaining the template,
which contains complete instructions, along with other goodies:
1) Download and install the latest free OpenOffice.org suite.
2) If you have a slow connection, make sure to use the "MD5 checksums" link on the right of that download page, in conjunction with a download manager program (I used freedownloadmanager.org and clicked Advanced, Integrity).
3) Then download the free scr1.ott template by clicking the "Get it!" button, below. (Trouble? Try downloading from Templates or using Chrome, Safari or Firefox.)
4) Save the template in OOo's Templates folder. I put mine here:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice.org\3\user\template
or here:
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.4\share\template\en-US
(find your own path in OOo Writer by clicking Tools, Options, OpenOffice.org, Paths, Templates).
5) Open OOo Writer and click File, New, Templates and Documents, Templates, My Templates (double-click), Scr1 (double-click).
6) Write your radio script!

More details and background at the main Screenwright(R) screenplay download site:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/scr2

Extensions repository: Screenwright(R) radio script formatting template

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:33:20 +0000

Summary: this free OOo Writer 3.x (+2.x) template will format your radio script.
Based on the original Screenwright(R), a template that won a cash award [details] from Sun Microsystems!

Here's a step-by-step primer for obtaining the template,
which contains complete instructions, along with other goodies:
1) Download and install the latest free OpenOffice.org suite.
2) If you have a slow connection, make sure to use the "MD5 checksums" link on the right of that download page, in conjunction with a download manager program (I used freedownloadmanager.org and clicked Advanced, Integrity).
3) Then download the free scr0.ott template by clicking the "Get it!" button, below. (Trouble? Try downloading from Templates or using Chrome, Safari or Firefox.)
4) Save the template in OOo's Templates folder. I put mine here:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice.org\3\user\template
or here:
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.4\share\template\en-US
(find your own path in OOo Writer by clicking Tools, Options, OpenOffice.org, Paths, Templates).
5) Open OOo Writer and click File, New, Templates and Documents, Templates, My Templates (double-click), Scr0 (double-click).
6) Write your radio script!

More details and background at the main Screenwright(R) screenplay download site:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/scr2

IssueZilla: New issues: Mon Nov 16 16:43:00 UTC 2009

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:43:38 +0000

#i106942# - Drawing: circles look like ellipses on screen and printer
#i106940# - Installation: incorrect detection of "newer version"; install fails
#i106949# - Presentation: Small brief of the problem...
#i106943# - framework: ODF, support for office:text on hyperlinks
#i106941# - gsl: Application specific fonts not registered in 3-Layer Win installation
#i106945# - l10n: [DE]: Calc function DURATION_ADD not translated
#i106946# - native-lang: Setup of the Haitian Creole Native-Language Project
#i106947# - qa: [Automation] Refactor t_doc1.inc::hCloseDocument()
#i106944# - sc: Problem with the sum in OpenOffice Calc
#i106951# - sw: adding a note in a new document and trying to save into .doc/97 makes Writer to crash
#i106948# - sw: ctrl+shift+u for underline doesn't work as expected
#i106950# - sw: date custom property inserted as an empty field
#i106939# - sw: writer crash

Extensions repository: OO Pinyin Guide

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:49:17 +0000

OO Pinyin Guide is a Java extension for OpenOffice 3 or higher. It automatically adds pinyin transliteration over chinese characters inside a text document. This tool can be useful for people learning or teaching chinese.

It is basically an extended version of the "Asian Phonetic Guide" available in the OpenOffice Chinese extension. The improvement is that OO Pinyin Guide will automatically fill in the pinyin part instead and doesn't require you to type it by hand. Nevertheless you still should check whether the suggested pinyin is correct.

Note: this extension is still in early development stage !

Extensions repository: Screenwright(R) A4 AV 2-col corp/ind script formatting template

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:54:45 +0000

Summary: this free OOo Writer 3.x (+2.x) template will format your
audio-visual dual-column corporate video / industrial film script for A4 paper.
Based on the original Screenwright(R), a template that won a cash award [details] from Sun Microsystems!

Here's a step-by-step primer for obtaining the template,
which contains complete instructions, along with other goodies:
1) Download and install the latest free OpenOffice.org suite.
2) If you have a slow connection, make sure to use the "MD5 checksums" link on the right of that download page, in conjunction with a download manager program (I used freedownloadmanager.org and clicked Advanced, Integrity).
3) Then download the free scr9.ott template by clicking the "Get it!" button, below. (Trouble? Try downloading from Templates or using Chrome, Safari or Firefox.)
4) Save the template in OOo's Templates folder. I put mine here:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice.org\3\user\template
or here:
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.4\share\template\en-US
(find your own path in OOo Writer by clicking Tools, Options, OpenOffice.org, Paths, Templates).
5) Open OOo Writer and click File, New, Templates and Documents, Templates, My Templates (double-click), Scr9 (double-click).
6) Write your AV script!

More details and background at the main Screenwright(R) screenplay download site:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/scr2

Extensions repository: Screenwright(R) AV 2-col corp/ind script formatting template

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:54:11 +0000

Summary: this free OOo Writer 3.x (+2.x) template will format your
audio-visual dual-column corporate video / industrial film script.
Based on the original Screenwright(R), a template that won a cash award [details] from Sun Microsystems!

Here's a step-by-step primer for obtaining the template,
which contains complete instructions, along with other goodies:
1) Download and install the latest free OpenOffice.org suite.
2) If you have a slow connection, make sure to use the "MD5 checksums" link on the right of that download page, in conjunction with a download manager program (I used freedownloadmanager.org and clicked Advanced, Integrity).
3) Then download the free scr8.ott template by clicking the "Get it!" button, below. (Trouble? Try downloading from Templates or using Chrome, Safari or Firefox.)
4) Save the template in OOo's Templates folder. I put mine here:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice.org\3\user\template
or here:
C:\Program Files\OpenOffice.org 2.4\share\template\en-US
(find your own path in OOo Writer by clicking Tools, Options, OpenOffice.org, Paths, Templates).
5) Open OOo Writer and click File, New, Templates and Documents, Templates, My Templates (double-click), Scr8 (double-click).
6) Write your AV script!

More details and background at the main Screenwright(R) screenplay download site:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/scr2

Petr Mladek: OpenOffice_org 3.2 beta2 available for openSUSE

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:27:31 +0000

I’m happy to announce OpenOffice.org 3.2 beta2 packages for openSUSE. They are available in the Build Service OpenOffice:org:UNSTABLE project and include many upstream and Go-oo fixes. See also overview of integrated features and enhancements. Please, look for more details about the openSUSE OOo build on the wiki page.

The package is a beta version and might include even serious bugs. Therefore they are not intended for data-critical usage. A good practice is to archive any important data before an use, …

As usual, we kindly ask any interested beta testers to try the package and report bugs. Especially, please test the three new extensions: NLPSolver, oooblogger, and Google Docs and Zoho.

Most annoying bugs

the new GDOCS extension adds icons that look ugly in the big size
Go-oo-specific strings are not translated
See bugzilla for more

Other information and plans:

The next beta3 build should be available two weeks from now. The current plans are to provide the final build in the middle of December. Though, the release will most likely slip to January.

IssueZilla: New issues: Mon Nov 16 04:43:01 UTC 2009

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:43:16 +0000

#i106934# - documentation: Pictures missing at help page
#i106938# - framework: Journalled Recovery
#i106937# - sc: Calc won't open MySQL exported xls spreadsheet
#i106935# - sc: Comment function and fixated windows --> entered text disappears if comment area and fixated area overlap
#i106936# - sw: Crash on switch to Position tab in List Properties Dialog

OpenOffice.org User Experience Blog: Time Machine Reloaded - November 8th

noreply@blogger.com (Christoph Noack) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:56:00 +0000

Hi folks!

It's the right time to set the time right ... This is the last day of my little Time-Machine-Blog which still covers the adventure OpenOffice.org Conference 2009.

November 8th

It seems that the today's weather wants to ease our goodbye - in the morning it rained and the sun (lowercase letters!) was nearly gone. There were still a few hours until my flight to Germany, so we decided to store my luggage at the main station and to see as much as we can.

Yesterday I talked about the time constraints and that we were not able to get into the Colosseum. Today, we joined a tourist group which dramatically reduces waiting time and provides some more historical facts. But here, the only thing that really matters is a picture...

Above, you see the inside of the Colosseum. Or let's say the remaining parts, since we already look at the basement. Many of the precious goods have already be taken away, for example the marble decorations. We have been told, that the walls have been completely covered ... and now we also know that the holes in the walls have been used to attach the marble tiles.

Although sometimes it might feel different, I think that theming the UI of OpenOffice.org is far more easy than to cover a zillion square meters with extremely heavy material :-)

Okay, we didn't only stare at holes ... we also moved on to get into the Roman Forum. To give you an idea that I had to hurry up, I will only provide one picture (Do I hear any relief for saving you some time? *g*). Funnily, the place had been a private "theater" for the emperor. Nice idea ...

That said, I had to hurry up to get to the airport. After saying goodbye to André, I went towards the main station. Due to my time buffer, I had the chance to enjoy my very last cappuccino. Sigh.

The rest went rather well and so everyone - and everything - landed safely. I mean, also my bag arrived without any further deformation :-)

Different to me. The last thing I thought was "bed, sleep, bed". Well, I had some nice dreams ...

Now

I hope you enjoyed the last days. If you have any comments, proposals or just critique, then please let me know! To me, it was a great pleasure, because i had the chance to experience some tiny details again. Details which have been covered by the whole buzz around the OpenOffice.org Conference.

Literally, see you next year! :-)

Christoph

PS: It may bother you, but for Planet readers it might be worth to have a look at the original blog posting which better preserves formatting

Michael Meeks: 2009-11-15: Sunday.

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Up early, dealt with babes, off to NCC, ran creche. Back for lunch, feeling yet worse, on to Solomon & Peace's for dinner, and then back home. Chewed over life, my lethargy and general inactivity with J.
Bed early, kidneys hurting in the night, urgh.

Extensions repository: Pruwowanje prawopisa za hornjoserbšćinu - Obersorbische Rechtschreibprüfung

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:03:01 +0000

Deutsch:
Um diese Erweiterung verwenden zu können, benötigen Sie mindestens OpenOffice Version 3.0
Wenn Sie eine OpenOffice-Version < 3.2 verwenden, ist es nicht möglich, die Sprache Obersorbisch auszuwählen. Stattdessen müssen Sie als Umgehungslösung für die Sprache des Textes "Xhosa" auswählen.
Mit OpenOffice 3.2 (erwarteter Veröffentlichungstermin Ende 2009) wählen Sie bitte "Sorbian Upper" als Sprache für den jeweiligen Absatz.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier.

English:
To use this extension you need at least version 3 of OpenOffice.
If you use OpenOffice < 3.2 you can't choose "Sorbian, Upper" as language. Instead - as a workaround - you have to choose the language "Xhosa".
With OpenOffice 3.2 (expected release date end of 2009) please choose "Sorbian Upper" als language for the paragraph.

Parts of this extensions are based on the spell checker for Mozilla Firefox, see https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/3956. The dictionary used there is copyrighted by Prof. Dr. Eduard Werner.

Template repository: Kalender 2010 - Portrait

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:11:53 +0000

Openoffice Vorlagen von Exceltemplate.net

IssueZilla: New issues: Sun Nov 15 16:43:00 UTC 2009

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:43:15 +0000

#i106932# - hi: Unicode ZWJ and ZWNJ not working in Windows Vista
#i106933# - sc: Undo merged cells not possible from Toolbar
#i106930# - sw: Copy & Paste from website crashes OOo Writer 3.2
#i106931# - sw: Display embedded MathType 5 equations
#i106929# - sw: fixed non-functioning paste function in Open Office

IssueZilla: New issues: Sun Nov 15 04:43:00 UTC 2009

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:43:31 +0000

#i106922# - api: Error connecting to OOo once OOo has been started by application, then closed.
#i106921# - framework: Entire suite will not start
#i106918# - framework: lock file when opening OOO application
#i106925# - pap: Papiamento dictionary
#i106924# - sc: Automattically format date fields as date format entered
#i106920# - sc: slow curser in calc
#i106928# - sw: PDF export only generates first page
#i106927# - sw: Replacing a word with a text which contains several lines
#i106923# - sw: Tables: Editing a date changes it's format
#i106926# - sw: cws printerpullpages: Not possible to print hidden text
#i106919# - sw: embedded presentation misaligned

OpenOffice.org User Experience Blog: Time Machine Reloaded - November 7th

noreply@blogger.com (Christoph Noack) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:23:00 +0000

Hi again,

the OpenOffice.org Conference is already, but when going 7 days back in time, we are still in Italy.

November 7th

Originally, some of us planned to reside some days longer in Orvieto and to eventually visit Rome by train. Some things changed after the announcement that there will be a strike by the railway employees. Jacqueline and André managed to get some rooms in Rome and to discuss the issue with our hotel. Fortunately, the hotel personnel was extremely kind and agreed to change our reservation. Thanks!!!

We moved on to Rome - and to my surprise - the neighborhood was extremely nice. As you will see on the picture, we saw a building with an orange tree (for everyone living in warmer regions, that is something special for us).

After dropping our baggage, we instantly moved towards the center of the city to visit some sights. Here is the well known Colosseum. I provide a picture without tourists - the amount of people there is a bit annoying ;-)

Besides the Colosseum, the whole site offers a lot to see. Due to the limited time - we wanted to continue our sightseeing tour by bus - we just had a brief look at the Roman Forum. Funnily, we've met Andreas who helped us to get some "inside" pictures. Mmh, the gate on the picture lets it look like a prison ...

As I already said, we continued the tour by bus and got of at special places. One example is the "St. Peter's Square" in the Vatican City.

As you can see, it is rather large. But that doesn't guarantee that you will only meet strangers - it seems that the OpenOffice.org people are just everywhere :-) That time, we met Rene who joined us...

Once inside, we decided to take the over 500 steps to enjoy the great view from the dome of the St. Peter's Basilica. Have a look at the shadow in the center of the picture - no, that's not my head ;-)

The building is absolutely impressive; outside and inside. Here just a brief look on the altar ...

Fast forward. We continued our bus tour until it gots dark ... and cold; as you may guess on the picture below. So we went back to our hotel and finally found a nice place to get our dinner. The very last evening with both Jacqueline and André. Somehow :-(

That's it. We will finish our journey tomorrow, after a short look inside the Colosseum.

Until then, please have a nice day!

Christoph

PS: The original posting with preserved formatting is located here.

Michael Meeks: 2009-11-14: Saturday.

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Lie in, off to Tesco / Homebase to buy this & that. Put up mirror cabinet in the bathroom, some door stops (to stop door handles going through walls) - neatly obsoleting some of my older hardware.
Set too making a clothes rail for N's wardrobe, interrupted by a surprisingly lengthy power-cut; unusual. Attempted to continue carpenting with hand tools, and brace & bit; sadly the chuck on the latter is shockingly bad, making life harder.
Lit candles, and a fire - spent the time burning confidential documents - which feels extremely dodgy, but just saves on buying a shredder.
J. out in the evening, feeling pretty under the weather; but managed to get some long overdue poly-filler-ing done. It's good to be minus one gaping hole in the toilet wall at least. Bed early.

IssueZilla: New issues: Sat Nov 14 16:43:00 UTC 2009

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:43:25 +0000

#i106912# - Formula editor: Incorrect import from MS Office
#i106909# - Presentation: Crash when selecting text in an .odp.
#i106910# - es: Mi Clave Publica para CVS
#i106915# - framework: hard disk access when acting on certain controls with the mouse
#i106916# - sc: Data Sort does not change linked cell references
#i106917# - sc: Help page misaligned when opened from help index
#i106911# - sc: VLOOKUP specifing a range in another workbook
#i106913# - sw: Can't show context menu near nubered list with wrong word
#i106914# - ui: printerpullpages: Print UI ignores settings from Tools - Option -<Application> - Print

Eric Bachard: OOo4Kids.activity.xo is available !

noreply@blogger.com (ericb) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:05:12 +0000

On XO machines, when using Sugar, an application must respect some criterias, to appear listed as activity. We had in the scope to provide OOo4Kids as activity on Sugar.

...and the first step is done !!

Until yesterday evening (late in the night), Thomas Fontenay and me, worked hard to fix a silly issue we had with the first .xo archive of OOo4Kids. In fact, symlink are prohibited in the activity tree, and we had to modify it. + we had to include the changes in the OOo4Kids build process, similar to the OpenOffice.org one.

For the moment, we only provide en-US, but other locales are possible, like italien, spanish, french, german, and portuguese.

The lucky XO owners can download the archive there

Next steps :

* improve the set, and make its build more robust
* improve performance (simplify, simplify, remove dead code .. )
* work on the Journal implementation
* Study the sharing mechanism, like allow several children to work on the same document, though the network
* improve the python support
As you can see, there is place for a lot of students applications !!

Last but not least, I repeat my thank you to Thomas Fontenay, Abdelkader Belabbes, students at Epitch Paris for their good work.

IssueZilla: New issues: Sat Nov 14 04:43:00 UTC 2009

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:43:10 +0000

#i106908# - Presentation: impress froze and when trying to save to reboot is now corrupted
#i106907# - sw: bullet point formatting lost when doc re-opened
#i106906# - sw: jump to cursor when saving as Word document

OpenOffice.org User Experience Blog: Time Machine Reloaded - November 6th

noreply@blogger.com (Christoph Noack) — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:31:00 +0000

Dear readers,

even today we do fight against some time constraints. So let's have a look what happened on ...

November 6th

The last day of the conference. It might be good for you that most of the day has been spend with personal chats and discussions. That makes this posting a bit shorter...

The first presentation I attended was "A new logo for OpenOffice.org" by Bernhard of the Art team. You may remember the poster stand which had been organized for that - I talked about that earlier. If you are interested in some more information, the presentation material has already been made available here.

After that, there has been the excellent presentation by Jacqueline and Oliver-Rainer who talked about "Lists and Outline in Writer" to be found here. Although the slides are available, you might miss the live demo unless you have a look at the video (starts at 57min).

Then, the day passed by ... unbelievably fast. Especially since there were many private discussions, even targeting critical questions with regard to the development of OpenOffice.org or the communication activities of Project Renaissance. I'd like to say "Thank you" to these people, who hopefully already know about that.

At the end of the day, the organization team offered a "town walk". Great, since there were some small sights and musuems we had not known about. On the left you see a picture which had been taken in the "Pozzo della Cava".

Time went by and it got dark outside. Let's share one of the night views of Orvieto.

Finally, we made it to "San Giovenale", a veeery old church built in 1004 (the picture on the right). I'm still somehow surprised how good the original picture looks for not having a tripod, using a consumer lens and an exposure time of over one second.

Okay, since we are discussing pictures and cameras - here is Bernhard who also tries to capture some of the nice parts of the church.

That's all for today, since I don't have pictures covering a very funny pizza (and many more things we'd tried) dinner in the late evening.

Oh, by the way, I already said that this was the very last day of the conference. So I would like to express my deepest thanks to all people involved.

Thank you for organizing, attending, chatting, improving, ...

But to me, it's not over yet. There are still two days of sightseeing I would like to share. Tomorrow, we will move on to Rome. Stay tuned :-)

Have a nice evening!

Christoph

PS: The original posting and formatting can be found on OpenOffice.org UX Team Blog.

Michael Meeks: 2009-11-13: Friday.

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Played with valgrind, poked Julian. Flushed the mental list of outgoing mails to write. Chat with JP; got stuck into accessibility again, good to see what has been happening there. Chased various team members by phone to catch up with the current state of play.
Stephen helped me get the latest UIA / Silverlight setup and working, which is neat. Call with Sandy & Brad.
Put up H's new blind - screwing it to the plastic window, hopefully it will stay put, and not puncture the sealed window units. Question Time in the evening, and chalked up tasks for tomorrow.

IssueZilla: New issues: Fri Nov 13 16:43:00 UTC 2009

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:44:28 +0000

#i106897# - Database access: Query Wizard - SbaTableQueryBrowser::impl_initialize
#i106895# - Database access: [cws hsqldb19] Form Wizard - application hangs
#i106898# - Database access: [cws hsqldb19] Form Wizard - assertion failed
#i106896# - Database access: [cws hsqldb19] Text Document - Assertion failed TransactionManager...
#i106875# - Database access: driver-dependent JDBC classpath configuration is ignored when using the DriverManager instead of a DataSource
#i106883# - Drawing: Export to SVG fails to maintain a usable image
#i106881# - Presentation: Impress Unusable for Presenting Multiple Images
#i106889# - external: expat: upgrade to 2.0.1
#i106885# - framework: Desktop-Search doesn't work sometimes
#i106901# - framework: Mac:crash when insert latin char with "Character viewer"
#i106893# - framework: OO fails to start
#i106905# - framework: Paste has stopped working
#i106891# - framework: desktop: soffice / linux tweak
#i106880# - framework: printerpullpages: Cannot choose another printer than default
#i106879# - framework: printerpullpages: Not able to define a printer for document
#i106890# - framework: printerpullpages: Not able to print "Text placeholder"
#i106900# - l10n: Fix string identifier
#i106904# - l10n: ICU needs to be updated because of known security vulnerability
#i106882# - sc: Data not getting saved properly in shared spreadsheet
#i106903# - sc: Data-loss when copying chart from calc and pasting into writer
#i106894# - sc: Excel Import: rotated shape + vertical writing leads to wrong shape position
#i106902# - sc: Multiple pastes locks up spreadsheet program
#i106886# - sc: Notes Invisible in sharing calc
#i106888# - sc: Selection List in calc
#i106873# - sc: Undo skips Chart data range changes
#i106899# - sdk: SDK-Documentation-remark for ActiveX sample
#i106874# - sw: Issue with saving document protected with Word 2003
#i106872# - sw: Paste has stopped working after crash on save
#i106887# - tools: handle crash report feedback=true without email address
#i106876# - ucb: Update OpenSSL library
#i106892# - vba: Per noel's comment, create this new issue to track the problem of API Format(). The original issue id is: 106276.
#i106878# - www: Request commit authority to openoffice.org component 'vba'
#i106884# - www: SVG is missing from list of mimetypes for attachments
#i106877# - xml: vulnerable expat library needs to be updated

Gullfoss: Missed the OpenOffice.org Conference? Enter Christoph's Time Machine!

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:48:20 +0000

Do not miss your opportunity to enter Christoph's time machine, if you could not attend this years OOoCon in Orvieto. Even if you have attended, it gives you the possibility to see the conference from a non-developers point of view. Enjoy!

Best regards,

Frank

Template repository: Tri-Fold Pamphlet Template for DIN A4

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:45:36 +0000

Educational or advertising template. For use with advertising, flyers, as a means to attractively present a single page document. Must be printed double sided. Print a test sheet first, of course, to see how it folds.

IssueZilla: New issues: Fri Nov 13 04:43:01 UTC 2009

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:43:28 +0000

#i106871# - *Testproduct: Important feature
#i106868# - Drawing: Zooming on changing page size
#i106866# - Installation: openofficeorg1.cab error
#i106863# - framework: Spotlight search in native file picker freezes OOo
#i106864# - framework: Type-In Text Fields Too Small in Dialogs
#i106870# - framework: [CWS printerpullpages] Ignore ENTER when entering print preview page numbers
#i106862# - qa: [automation] f_basic_eventbinding.bas tAssignComponentFunction
#i106869# - sc: Error save format Excel 5.0 files containing symbols cyrillic
#i106867# - sw: Autocomplete is not language sensitive
#i106865# - sw: cannot recover a file. Need the to recover the text from the file.

OpenOffice.org User Experience Blog: Time Machine Reloaded - November 5th

noreply@blogger.com (Christoph Noack) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:47:00 +0000

Hi everyone,

let's go back the usual 7 days to re-experience the OOoCon 2009!

November 5th

From our point-of-view, it was "the day" of the conference. It was packed with User Experience related topics (conference program, page 2). Here are some highlights...

Ma Li from the IBM Lotus Symphony gave some nice talks, especially since he had used very entertaining and sometimes funny slide designs. Here, I can can only provide a picture shown the "default" design.

Basically, everyone talked about the same - how to better suit the needs of our users. Okay, we've also been reminded to avoid the impersonal term "user", so please exchange it with some person unrelated to OpenOffice.org but related to you. Then you better get the idea of what we are talking about.

Of course, Andreas talked about it, too. In his workshop "The role and the methods of user experience in product design" he took a more general approach why some products are more successful than others. Or let's say, what are the ingredients to develop a product which has the potential to be really successful.

After Andreas finished his workshop, there were about 10 people who attended our workshop "User Experience Done "Live" Based on Expertise and Usage Data". As far as I know, the attendees were volunteers and employees of Sun Microsystems and IBM. Since the workshop did take place in one of the usual presentation rooms, the equipment was somehow optimized for presentations instead of workshops. So we had to rely on the funny ODF note pads we brought with us - and the PLIO people, who were so unbelievable kind to provide a second data projector in the last minute. Thanks a lot for that!!! Unfortunately, there was somebody missing ... Mr. Internet Connection left the room right before and so we had only very rarely access to the Internet and the web sites we wanted to work with. What a pity, especially since some time we kept trying to get it working. However...

First, we presented our backup topics to let the attendees chose what to work on. Backup topics? Yes, because although we did some requests on mailing lists and in blogs, we didn't get any worked out proposal. Maybe our ideas were so bad that - at the end - the people in the workshop presented their own ones. So we got three excellent ideas to work on (described here). Due to the Internet connection problems, the attendees chose to work on "How to improve the quality of search results on the extension website?". Funnily, this idea had been brought in by Frank Mau (Sun Microsystems) who is also responsible for the User Feedback Data tooling. This data could have been used for questions dealing with the core product OpenOffice.org.

Frank explained the problem "offline" - if the user searches for extensions, the search results were sometimes sub-optimal which is related to the underlying search algorithm. Before starting to work on that topic, I gave a brief introduction of "user search strategies" and how this related to todays website features like: hierachical menus, tags and tag clouds, text search with synonyms. Concerning the search we worked out that a plain "text search" does not work well if a) there are far too many search results which might even be unrelated, and b) it doesn't work well if the user does not even know what term to search for (we tend to think technially, but most of our users are technically unbiased).

After some discussion it was raised that there were - literally - no resources to realize huge changes for the Extension Website. Keeping that in mind, we worked on some tiny but powerful proposals how to proceed (see here). If there would be a little bit more support, we also discussed how to re-arrange the elements on the website to provide access to the elements which were rather suited for the search (e.g. moving the tags a bit up). Finally, we had some intermediate result to further work on after the workshop.

Time was running - and still no internet connection - so we proposed to further inform about User Feedback Data and how to use it in the daily work. Agreement - and so Frank Loehmann gave a short presentation and I added a bit more "playing detective" with the source code browser OpenGrok to better understand the raw data. This could also be used for reference in the further analysis in the Project Renaissance.

Result: The workshop itself was quite interesting, especially for me :-) There has been positive feedback after the workshop, so most likely we will offer it again to further strenghten the cooperation in the community.

If you want to know more, here is the workshop wiki page, the videos / video streams and the presentation material.

And what is a day without a closing event? We enjoyed the party which has been organized by the NLC. Many thanks to the whole team!

That's it. You may now enjoy your very personal espresso - just go on. We'll see each other tomorrow!

Cheers,
Christoph

PS: Not to forget the reminder for the planet users, who want to see this posting well formed.

Michael Meeks: 2009-11-12: Thursday.

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000

Up lateish, paying back the sleep debt. Mail catch-up. Pete arrived to lay vinal in the bathroom. Detour via the dentists to get a mouth that feels like it's made of cold rubber.
Back, re-assembled and tidied up a bit the laptop battery test harness, grabbed new packages to test. Electrician arrived and discovered that the heat sensor that should have been in the under-floor heating mat was in fact not: the friendly tiler arrived back to start lifting the floor tiles. Pete still at it laying the floor. Lunch - Tony popped over.
Prodded at glibc wrt. the annoying gdb debugger griping around loading -lpthread late in the day, as a dependent of a dynamic module, could it just be another gdb lameness ?
Dinner with the wife; while OpenSUSE 11.2 installed; filed a few bugs - nasty problem with metacity's signal handling - it seems.

IssueZilla: New issues: Thu Nov 12 16:43:00 UTC 2009

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:43:54 +0000

#i106851# - Presentation: Style name not saved after rename
#i106843# - Presentation: Under Notes Master View,create new master page,then program crash
#i106853# - extensions: pdf import extension broken on windows
#i106861# - framework: Copy Paste from Calc to Writer no working
#i106854# - framework: Document recovery leads to conflict by saving recovered files
#i106850# - framework: soffice does not propagate soffice.bin exit code
#i106852# - framework: solaris' grep cannot "-v"
#i106848# - l10n: Localization37: several files in English in the FR version
#i106845# - porting: remove IRIX port
#i106844# - qa: Endless loop in testautomation/global/tools/includes/required/t_option2.inc
#i106858# - sc: Crash
#i106857# - sc: In search$Find option and fields
#i106846# - sc: allow user to set default or fallback or force form control font
#i106847# - sdk: SDK-DevGuide-OfficeDev-DesktopEnvironment doesn't work properly when deployed with jdk-1.6.0
#i106856# - sw: Choosing records from x to x in form-letter printing dialogue does not work
#i106860# - sw: Collated duplex printing doesn't work properly
#i106855# - sw: Printing a form letter to file does not includes images
#i106859# - sw: Sort Separator ... button crash Writer
#i106849# - udk: Assertions about wrong base URL when searching for JREs

Gullfoss: New-style service constructors in OpenOffice.org Basic

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:42:25 +0000

New-style service constructors in OpenOffice.org Basic

Starting with OpenOffice.org 3.2 OpenOffice.org Basic allows to use UNO new-style service constructors (for more details please see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/ProUNO/Services).

To achieve this UNO services are now mapped to OpenOffice.org Basic objects. They have to be addressed by using the complete UNO namespace path. Let's take the example from the "Service Constructors" section in the wiki page mentioned above completed by a dummy module:

module com { module sun { module star { module foo {

service SomeService: XSomeInterface {

create1();

create2([in] long arg1, [in] string arg2);

create3([in] any... rest);

};

}; }; }; };

Then the service object can be addressed like this:

Dim oSomeServiceObj

oSomeServiceObj = com.sun.star.foo.SomeService

All constructors defined for a new-style service are available as methods of its corresponding OpenOffice.org Basic object, e.g.:

Dim oSomeInstance As Object

oSomeInstance = oSomeServiceObj.create1()

' or

oSomeInstance = oSomeServiceObj.create2( 42, "Hello" )

' or

oSomeInstance = oSomeServiceObj.create3( aVarOfAnyType )

Internally the parameters are passed to the createInstanceWithArgumentsAndContext method of com.sun.star.lang.XMultiComponentFactory as Arguments sequence. The UNO default context is used both to obtain the Multi Component Factory and as Context parameter.

This is the simple version. To give more control to the user there's also another way to call service constructors similar to the one used in the C++ mapping of service constructors. In this version the UNO context can be passed explicitly to the constructor method. Then the code would look like this:

Dim oMyContext As Object

oMyContext = GetContextFromSomewhere()

Dim oSomeInstance As Object

oSomeInstance = oSomeServiceObj.create1( oMyContext )

' or

oSomeInstance = oSomeServiceObj.create2( oMyContext, 42, "Hello" )

' or

oSomeInstance = oSomeServiceObj.create3( oMyContext, aVarOfAnyType )

In this case the passed context is used internally instead of the UNO default context.

The OpenOffice.org Basic runtime automatically chooses the appropriate version by checking the first parameter's type. If the first parameter supports com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext and the parameter count exceeds the one of the used constructor the second version is used.

This can become a problem in one special case: If a constructor has a rest parameter and expects an object supporting XComponentContext as argument it becomes ambiguous which version should be used. It could be a call to the constructor with the intention to pass the context as an argument to the service (case 1) or with the intention to pass the context to createInstanceWithArgumentsAndContext with no argument for the service (case 2).

The solution: In case 1 it doesn't matter if no or one context is passed as parameter:

oSomeInstance = oSomeServiceObj.create3()

oSomeInstance = oSomeServiceObj.create3( oMyContext )

oMyContext is only used for createInstanceWithArgumentsAndContext and not passed as argument to the service.

For case 2 the context has to be passed twice

oSomeInstance = oSomeServiceObj.create3( oMyContext, oMyContext )

Then the second context parameter is passed to the service. This may look a little bit strange, but it's a rather exotic scenario anyway.

If a new-style service only has an implicit constructor it's mapped to a method "create" without parameters in OpenOffice.org Basic.

Eric Bachard: Education Project ClassRoom : log available

noreply@blogger.com (ericb) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:39:33 +0000

Yesterday, was IRC ClassRoom , and we were extremely pleased to receive Heiner Rechtien

As usual, the log is available on the OpenOffice.org wiki

Gullfoss: Odt2DAISY - create DAISY Digital Talking Books with OpenOffice.org!

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:12:35 +0000

Vincent Spiewak has finished his OpenOffice.org extension for converting ODF text documents to DAISY Digital Talking Books - you can find the press release here.

The extension not only creates XML content, but also can make use of different text to speech engines, so you will have fully featured talking books.

I recommend this extension for everybody who wants to create DAISY books. Binaries and source files are available on sourceforge, the license is LGPL 3.

If you never heard of DAISY before, you might want to look at the screen casts which will show you how it works.

Thank you very much for this great OpenOffice.org extension!

Malte Timmermann: Odt2DAISY - create DAISY Digital Talking Books with OpenOffice.org!

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:05:48 +0000

Vincent Spiewak has finished his OpenOffice.org extension for converting ODF text documents to DAISY Digital Talking Books - you can find the press release here.

The extension not only creates XML content, but also can make use of different text to speech engines, so you will have fully featured talking books.

I recommend this extension for everybody who wants to create DAISY books. Binaries and source files are available on sourceforge, the license is LGPL 3.

If you never heard of DAISY before, you might want to look at the screen casts which will show you how it works.

Thank you very much for this great OpenOffice.org extension!