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Tina Krogull | 29 Sep 11:18

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 Release Candidate

Hi Louis,

a couple of things:

- When I try to download the RC1, no matter which download site I 
choose, I get the alert: 550 Failed to change directory
- The Link "OpenOffice.org 2.0 Release Candidate" has an error. The URL 
is "http://download.openoffice.org/2..0.0rc/index.html". There is one 
"." too much in the link.

Tina

Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:

> All,
>
> OpenOffice.org 2.0 has gone from being a Beta to a Release Candidate  
> (RC).  Congratulations to all who made this possible!  As an RC,  
> OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC still--even more so--needs to be downloaded and  
> tested by the community.  So we urge you to go to <http:// 
> download.openoffice.org/2.0.0rc/index.html> and start the fun.  The  
> sooner we clean up the bugs, the sooner we can come out with  
> OpenOffice.org 2.0.
>
> And what is OpenOffice.org 2.0?  The world's best and easiest to use  
> free productivity suite.  Read the product page and features pages  
> for more information.
>
> * OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC <http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.0rc/ 
> index.html>
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Louis Suarez-Potts | 29 Sep 10:29
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OpenOffice.org 2.0 Release Candidate

All,

OpenOffice.org 2.0 has gone from being a Beta to a Release Candidate  
(RC).  Congratulations to all who made this possible!  As an RC,  
OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC still--even more so--needs to be downloaded and  
tested by the community.  So we urge you to go to <http:// 
download.openoffice.org/2.0.0rc/index.html> and start the fun.  The  
sooner we clean up the bugs, the sooner we can come out with  
OpenOffice.org 2.0.

And what is OpenOffice.org 2.0?  The world's best and easiest to use  
free productivity suite.  Read the product page and features pages  
for more information.

* OpenOffice.org 2.0 RC <http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.0rc/ 
index.html>
* Product <http://www.openoffice.org/product2/index.html>
* Features <http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/index.html>

*** NOTE: For right now, Windows user will have to remove older Beta  
and developer builds prior to the installation of the RC because of  
an incorrect interpretation of their version information by the  
Windows Installer. As a matter of course the stable version  
OpenOffice.org 1.1.x (most recent: 1.1.5) can be used concurrently.

Cheers to all,

Team OpenOffice.org
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Edward H. Trager | 27 Sep 19:36
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Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software

Hi, everyone,

This message is an open letter to:

 - Gnome Desktop developers
 - KDE Desktop developers
 - OpenOffice.org developers
 - Gimp developers
 - Inkscape developers

... regarding a proposal for an improved font selection drop-down
widget that would be ideal for use in professional-quality Open Source 
word processing, desktop publishing, and graphic design programs
such as OpenOffice.org, Gimp, Inkscape, and similar
programs.  

The proposal suggests a design that is particularly 
applicable where users require a streamlined and intuitive interface
for selecting multiple fonts from large font collections present on
the user's machine.  The proposal also attempts to fully address 
aspects of internationalization related to font selection
that I believe have been largely overlooked until now.  Finally,
the proposal suggests using a common XML configuration file which
for storing font collection information.

To see the full proposal, please see:

    http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/fontdialog/

The rest of this email provides a synopsis of the proposal.
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G. Roderick Singleton | 13 Sep 14:02
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Access to language packs not available.

Please excuse the cross-posting but I think the problem of no access to
built language packs is a problem. SOme of us work in multiple languages
and having the language packs saves space and time.

So I think that there should be a statement, in English, that we should
get language packs from the NLC of choice. However, there is a problem,
the 2.0 language packs are not offered by most NLC projects. They are
not put on the mirrors nor downloads.openoffice.org.  So we are now at
an impass. If those in control will not offer the language packs via the
openoffice.org projects, such as oootranslation, then we are obliged to
get the packs elsewhere. Where? Well how about hammering Pavel's
development server. Not freindly but it will work until ...

Please reconsider. Employment of language packs is an important part of
the 2.0 Beta process and if these are not tested we will not have a
viable product and we are forcing users to do multiple installations of
complete 2.0/1.9 suites in other languages than that first downloaded.

Think about what you are doing.
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Alexandro | 3 Sep 21:07
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Chineese character crashing and overlaping one with the other.

Email from one of our chineese workers in our company:
 I use Open Office version. 1.9.113 in my company.
Still have some problems with the formatting and
coding when I put in simplied Chinese characters, e.g.
the characters can not be shown properly, some of them
appear like crashing with other characters. Pls report
to the corresponding party.
 The process is usually once closed/saved/opened, the characteres shown as 
overlaping. This is with the Zoom applied at 100% and with Asian character 
support enable. Also kerning enabled for Asian characters.
 Some random text will appear red for no aparent reason.

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Louis Suarez-Potts | 2 Sep 19:02
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License Simplification

All,

On 2 September 2005 Sun Microsystems announced that it was retiring  
the Sun Industry Standards Source License (SISSL), an Open Source  
Initiative (OSI)-approved software license.  In recent weeks, the  
OSI, which authorises open-source licenses, has been discussing  
limiting license proliferation, so as to make the process of choosing  
a license easier for developers and companies.  Sun's move is in  
support of that objective.

How does this move affect OpenOffice.org? As most know,  
OpenOffice.org code was launched under the dual banner of the SISSL  
and LGPL; licensees could choose which one they wanted to use, and  
nearly all have chosen the LGPL.  Effective with the announcement  
that Sun is retiring the SISSL, however, OpenOffice.org will in the  
future only be licensed under the LGPL.

For users, the simplification means: no change.  OpenOffice.org  
remains free to use, distribute, even sell.  One can freely use it in  
commercial as well as government environments; nothing has changed.

For vendors, distributors, add-on and plug-in writers of  
OpenOffice.org:  The LGPL allows for commercial distribution without  
affecting derived products in the same way as the GPL.

For developers and other contributors:  As the code will be licensed  
only under the LGPL, modifications to the source must be published.   
(The SISSL did not require all changes to the source to be  
published.)  As most OpenOffice.org contributors are already openly  
contributing to the community, we anticipate no problems.  And for
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Sophie Gautier | 20 Aug 09:30
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[discuss] ANN : Tony Galmiche co-lead du projet francophone

Bonjour à tous,

J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que Tony Galmiche va maintenant 
co-leader le projet francophone avec moi.
Il assure cette tâche depuis déjà un moment puisqu'il intervient à tous 
les niveaux du projet, y compris sur le site où je lui ai donné les 
mêmes droits que les miens.
Tony, je souhaite que ce rôle officiel maintenant t'apporte la 
reconnaissance bien méritée du travail que tu effectues au quotidien 
pour notre communauté fancophone.

Sophie Gautier
Responsable du projet francophone
Membre du Community Council

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Bruno MOUTOUH | 11 Aug 18:54
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Mille regrets à tous

Bonsoir,

Je vous présente toutes mes excuses pour cette pollution bien involontaire
de 'réponses automatiques d'absence' que vous avez peut-être reçu de ma part 
sur vos BAL.

En effet l'aide d'Outlook Express semblait indiquer que cette régle de
réponse n'aurait pas du être appliquée aux messages de ces listes, car
traités par une règle précédente. J'ai constaté avec consternation à mon
retour qu'il n'en a rien été.

A l'avenir je me méfierai de ces automatismes. A trop vouloir bien faire...

Cordialement,

B. Moutouh
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Jens Ansorg | 18 Jul 08:19
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XFORMS in Openoffoce.org 2?

[xpost with follow-up set to gmane.comp.openoffice.questions]

By sheer coincidence I realized recently that OOo supports XFORMS. Yet 
another reason to switch from a competitive package and it's proprietary 
(infopath in this case) data formats!

I went ahead and searched for Information about this feature but could 
not find a lot. Most search results are from last year and related to 
the announcement of xforms support in OOo.

I.e. on
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/lars?entry=openoffice_org_snapshot_build_1
Lars Oppermann's Weblog

He promises more info on that topic but I cannot find anything.

Where is the best place to learn about XFORMS in Openoffice.org?

thank you
Jens Ansorg
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Louis Suarez-Potts | 10 Jul 19:00
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Vote for Community Contributor Representative

All,

Vote for the next Community Contributor Representative (CCR) to the  
Community Council!  Voting begins Monday 11 July at 00:00 UTC and  
ends Friday, 15 July, at 00:00 UTC.

There are four candidates for the CCR office.  The CCR holds a seat  
on the Community Council for 6 months (more or less) and represents  
you.  Prior office holders were CP Hennessy and Daniel Carrera.

The candidate is supposed to be someone who is familiar with  
OpenOffice.org (project and product) and able to speak to the needs  
of end users as well as the Incubator project members.  All the  
candidates are qualified.  They are (in no particular order):

* Laurent Godard

* Rene Engelhard

* Christian Lohmaier

* Hirano Kazunari

To vote, you must be a registered OpenOffice.org community member.  
Here is how to vote:

1. Log in if you are not already.  Go to "My start page," and click  
on the "Vote Now!" hyperlink on the right hand side. You will be  
taken to a page where you can cast your vote.
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Santiago Bosio | 7 Jul 00:23
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Nuevo diccionario de corrección ortográfica disponible para pruebas

Hola, Comunidad:

Como indiqué la semana pasada, he terminado la versión preliminar del
nuevo diccionario de corrección ortográfica; el cual está disponible
bajo licencia LGPL.

Solicito a toda la comunidad su colaboración. Es necesario probar el
nuevo diccionario y realizar correcciones antes de poder utilizarlo en
producción. Con el apoyo de todos ustedes será mucho más rápido y fácil.
Si nos apuramos, quizás sea posible integrarlo a OpenOffice.org antes
del lanzamiento de la versión 2 (Richard: ¿te parece que sea posible?).

El paquete está disponible en el repositorio http://www.oooxtremo.org/
En el mismo lugar encontrarán también un documento PDF sobre la
realización del nuevo diccionario, que puede resultar útil para quienes
quieran colaborar en el desarrollo.

Para aquellos que quieran instalarlo, en el mismo paquete comprimido se
encuentra un archivo README con instrucciones básicas de instalación.

Si tienen dudas, pueden contactarme en mi correo personal, o a través de
alguna de la listas.

Saludos desde Mendoza, Argentina.

Santiago Bosio
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