Re: [libreoffice-users] in response ...

2017-02-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Anne-ology, You are right, that is the general meaning of moderation. However, when we talk about moderation here, we talk about mailing list moderation. When we talk about moderator, we refer to a mailing list moderator, not to concepts such as panel moderators. A mailing list moderator has a

Re: [libreoffice-users] in response ...

2017-01-31 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tom, It seems that the problem Brian highlighted is a bit different and is a recurring one. Anne-ology does not seem to understand her exact role as a list moderator, even after years of being in that position. What she has to do is first to approve the message so that it can reach the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice

2016-11-27 Thread Charles-H . Schulz
th no problem. On the other hand, using Markdown in my experience does not really make me expect to have nicely laid out documents (like with LibreOffice or LATEX for instance). Markdown is fundamentally a web and transitional format, made to process text on websites or online documentat

Re: [libreoffice-users] for the list members

2016-11-01 Thread Charles-H . Schulz
basic rules. Disclosing private emails makes list subscribers very uncomfortable, no matter how you feel about this. http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html http://www.mail-list.com/mailing-list-etiquette/ I hope this will help you, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document

Re: [libreoffice-users] need help off this list - need Linux package choice help

2016-10-24 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tim, Have you given OpenShot a try? Best, Charles. Le 24 octobre 2016 05:10:41 GMT+02:00, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster a écrit : > >Please help this long term user, and a local promoter, [since the >beginning] of LO. > >I really need help on a presentation video[s]. I had an idiot gi

Re: [libreoffice-users] F-Droid

2016-10-03 Thread Charles-H . Schulz
Hi,I hope this is the right place to tell it. It would be grate, if someone > updated the libreoffice version on F-Droid.ThanksAnett. -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details

Re: [libreoffice-users] OwnCloud link on LO site

2016-03-27 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Bruce, Le 27 mars 2016 13:58:38 GMT+02:00, Bruce Hohl a écrit : >From the home page menu on the LO site: Community > OwnCloud opens >http://owncloud.documentfoundation.org/ which requires a user & >password. > >Is this a LO OwnCloud demo? >If so, does anyone know how I can get credentials

Re: [libreoffice-users] Thunderbird potential as the official/default email-client for LO? Re: [board-discuss] BoD decision from 2015-10-05

2016-03-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Dear all, As this is the LibreOffice user mailing list would you be kind enough to take this discussion elsewhere, for instance the Thunderbird mailing list? Thanks, Charles. -- Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec K-9 Mail. Veuillez excuser ma brièveté. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+uns

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice git repository!

2016-02-12 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello, We do not rely on Github for independence reasons. However we have our own git repository: http://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/source-code/ Github is an online service, not the only place to host git repositories (there are others such as bitbucket, gitlab and of course every git reposi

Outlining in LibreOffice WAS: [Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: question about the best version of libreoffice]

2016-01-28 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Virgil, Closing this thread once and for all by reacting to something completely different Le 21.01.2016 16:11, Virgil Arrington a écrit : On 01/21/2016 09:12 AM, V Stuart Foote wrote: Of course even from these users we (the LibreOffice project) really need folks to install the de

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: question about the best version of libreoffice - MY God is better!

2016-01-27 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Gentlemen, Please take your philosophical discussion elsewhere. It is wildly off topic here, as this is a mailing list dedicated to supporting users of LibreOffice. Thank you, Charles. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.o

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Happy New Year 2016

2016-01-02 Thread Charles-H . Schulz
Hello Chandrakant, Sylvia, Sylvia Sánchez @ 2016-01-02 01:16 CET: > Thank you very much!! > Same for you too!! Indeed, happy new year to all of you and let's make 2016 an even better year for LibreOffice! Best wishes, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document Foundation, Kur

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LEBRE VERSION STILL

2015-11-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
stion. LO has Merchandise, hansn't it ? What is their funtion if not sell something ? Regards, Jorge Rodríguez El jue, 05-11-2015 a las 11:49 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz escribió: Hello Ken, Le 05.11.2015 11:24, Ken Springer a écrit : > On 11/5/15 12:12 AM, toki wrote: >>

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Marianne, Le 05.11.2015 16:38, marianne-x a écrit : List Ahoy: Charles Schulz wrote: "Also, I'm curious to know what operating system you replaced her existing system with." The original was Vista, and the replacement was Vista. The easiest path, since everything was right there in a recovery p

Re: [libreoffice-users] lost opportunity

2015-11-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Marianne, Le 05.11.2015 08:42, marianne-x a écrit : A minor tale of woe: I have been trying for years to convince a young lady friend to break away from slavish dependence upon Micro$oft, and at least give LO, et. al,, a try. Her Curtains machine, running on Vista, finally got so clogged

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LEBRE VERSION STILL

2015-11-05 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Ken, Le 05.11.2015 11:24, Ken Springer a écrit : On 11/5/15 12:12 AM, toki wrote: On 05/11/2015 04:24, Ken Springer wrote: While some bug may be deemed trivial by the devs or some system, that bug may not be trivial to the user. That is why individuals and organization purchase Tier 3

Re: [libreoffice-users] LTS

2015-10-12 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello James, Le 12.10.2015 15:25, James E. Lang a écrit : This tread has veered sharply off course from the original post thus my change of the Subject. If AOO Issued security and stability updates in a timely manner and if they issued a battle tested version of LO every couple of years or so,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing Libreoffice in Ubuntu

2015-10-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
ney on LTS and is only able to do so because the LTS itself is a profitable business. Otherwise you would not even hear of it. Businesses looking for something very similar to a LTS version of LibreOffice can contact our certified developers and their companies though. Best, Charles. > &

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing Libreoffice in Ubuntu

2015-10-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 11 octobre 2015 14:43:39 GMT+02:00, Alex Thurgood a écrit : >Le 11/10/2015 14:15, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > > >Charles, > >> >> I do not know where you got that support and security updates are >only available on Linux. That is factually wrong and ser

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing Libreoffice in Ubuntu

2015-10-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 11 octobre 2015 14:12:37 GMT+02:00, "Andreas Säger" a écrit : >Am 10.10.2015 um 15:27 schrieb Florian Reisinger: >> Would you be so kind as to tell us which aspects got worse? > >Macro coders depend on either MRI (Python extension) or XRay (Basic >library). Both tools can be linked to the alph

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing Libreoffice in Ubuntu

2015-10-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 11 octobre 2015 11:44:33 GMT+02:00, Alex Thurgood a écrit : >Le 10/10/2015 23:36, Italo Vignoli a écrit : > >Suffice it to say that Andreas is a vociferous participant in this >discussion list, but that doesn't make his criticisms any less >justified >or relevant. What he dislikes is badly imp

Re: [libreoffice-users] Clean up/optimize/canonicalize a .odt file

2015-09-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 25 septembre 2015 21:42:12 GMT+02:00, Florian Reisinger a écrit : >Hi, > >One possible reason is hard formatting. By adding and removing a style >hardcoded empty span tags can appear. However this should not happen >when using styles (even for bold and so on). > >I read this some time ago. Hop

Re: [libreoffice-users] Credit Card Donation

2015-09-20 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 20 septembre 2015 07:54:18 GMT+02:00, Mark Gay a écrit : >I made a credit card donation to the Document Foundation on 9-19-2015. >Your message to me was that it didn't go through, yes I received a tex >message from my bank that the donation did in fact go through. What's >up? > > Mark Gay > >

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 5.0 is released

2015-08-05 Thread Charles-H . Schulz
... and we have a banner, please feel free to use it and share: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/0/05/L05_webbanner.png (announcement: http://blog.documentfoundation.org) Cheers, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige

Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey

2015-07-19 Thread Charles-H . Schulz
Pad X131e running Windows 8.1 > iPhone 6 > > > I like Linux, ThinkPads and Android. If anybody's interested in broadening the audience of this survey, we can create an actual online survey and attract several hundreds/thousands Libreoffice users. It's always good to collect th

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Thanks for the support of the LO NA-DVD .iso file download

2015-07-15 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 15.07.2015 12:24, Marc Paré a écrit : Hi Tim, Le 2015-07-14 10:17, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster a écrit : Since July 8th, when the ISO file for my LibreOffice NA-DVD [English] when online, I have had 90 downloads. It had been a while, due to hardware and health issues, since I was able t

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to use LibreOffice to blur and save a PNG?

2015-07-13 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
user who wishes to avoid MsFt yet use quality software; > in fact, I think those sites are attempting to make a profit. > > > >From: Charles-H. Schulz >Date: Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:05 AM >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to use LibreOffice to blur and >sa

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to use LibreOffice to blur and save a PNG?

2015-07-13 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
ich I thoroughly enjoy using - I think they would be interested in knowing where I located it/them. For example, C-Cleaner, Avast, IrfanView, VLC, ... are in this category - and these are all rated at the top of their respective categories. From: Charles-H. Schulz D

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to use LibreOffice to blur and save a PNG?

2015-07-13 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
hope you'll understand what the issue is. Best, Charles. Le 13.07.2015 15:57, anne-ology a écrit : That is *not* a 'freeware' site; anyone who has gone there would know this. If you enjoy LO, then you should also enjoy their dedicated efforts. From: Charles-

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to use LibreOffice to blur and save a PNG?

2015-07-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 11 juillet 2015 02:07:42 GMT+02:00, anne-ology a écrit : > LO is not designed to do that; > but there are numerous programs which will do a very good job >for you - > many of these are even free for the individual user and can be >located >http://www.techsuppo

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice's documentation (pdf and online)

2015-06-24 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 24 juin 2015 19:09:26 GMT+02:00, James Knott a écrit : >On 06/24/2015 12:58 PM, dallen wrote: >> Hi All, >> >>I'm an experienced Technical Writer beginning work on >LibreOffice's >> documentation, but I have some questions for LibreOffice users: >> >>1) Does anyone EVER look at the pdf

[libreoffice-users] Fwd: [libreoffice-website] Deployment_and_Migration guide questions

2015-05-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Message d'origine De : Rob Pearson Envoyé : 25 mai 2015 13:26:03 GMT+02:00 À : webs...@global.libreoffice.org Objet : [libreoffice-website] Deployment_and_Migration guide questions Hi, I have been bold and made significant changes to http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Depl

Re: [libreoffice-users] Users support via Twitter

2015-05-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 16 mai 2015 15:08:39 GMT+02:00, Brad Rogers a écrit : >On Sat, 16 May 2015 14:17:11 +0200 >"Charles-H. Schulz" wrote: > >Hello Charles-H., > >>The point that has not been made yet is that while support on Twitter >>may seem ill fated people do as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Users support via Twitter

2015-05-16 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 16 mai 2015 13:32:33 GMT+02:00, Brad Rogers a écrit : >On Sat, 16 May 2015 02:48:08 + >toki wrote: > >Hello toki, > >>On 16/05/2015 00:43, King Kong wrote: >>> It's a challenge to craft a support question in 160 characters. >>There are several tools that take a statement, and tweet them

Re: [libreoffice-users] Users support via Twitter

2015-05-15 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 15 mai 2015 18:53:21 GMT+02:00, "Charles-H. Schulz" a écrit : >If you don't know about Twitter (http://www.twittet.com) it is a >microblogging service used by millions worldwide. > >We have an active presence there, notably through the following twitter >accoun

Re: [libreoffice-users] Users support via Twitter

2015-05-15 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
through the garden >listening to all the twittering, tweeting, etc. ;-) > > > >From: Charles-H. Schulz >Date: Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:50 AM >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Users support via Twitter >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Cc: proje...@global.libreoffice.org >

[libreoffice-users] Users support via Twitter

2015-05-15 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello everyone, The Document Foundation offers several types of community support channels for LibreOffice. One of the main ones is the users support mailing lists, but there are of course others, such as the Ask LibreOffice website and other tools. One experimental tool we have been using si

Re: [libreoffice-users] No releases of my extension on the LO extension site

2015-05-12 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 12 mai 2015 07:02:02 GMT+02:00, X Roemer a écrit : >Hi, > >I'm the author of the Writer extension Organon for LO/OO. I tried to >keep it up to date on the LO extensions site, but compared to OO's >extensions site and its mechanism, I found it really hard to manage it >for LO. I think, LO's m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Is a blunder a bug?

2015-04-10 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello everyone, Thank you for bringing clarity to this issue. I have 2 suggestions at this stage : * ensure there is no existing bug/rfe report already filed for this topic before filing your existing report * try to follow up on this with our design team or ask someone here willing to do it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Two ideas about LibreOffice tips

2015-02-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
a lot of good tips. Regards from Tom :) On 25 February 2015 at 10:10, Charles-H. Schulz < charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: Hello Zeki, Sophie, Le 25.02.2015 10:44, Sophie a écrit : Hi Zeki, Le 23/02/2015 21:39, Zeki Bildirici a écrit : Hi, 1- Currently we share LibreOf

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-30 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello, On 30 janvier 2015 11:50:02 CET, Urmas wrote: >"Charles-H. Schulz": > >"> that either Windows 8.1 or some setting peculiar to some systems >create >a very bad >> experience when installing software... > >It is LO misconfigured Apache server

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-28 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
There is some major work going on on this. We have a viewer in beta version. But we aim this year to get an editor and viewer version released. Right now we need to develop and improve our base system first. Best, Charles. On 28 janvier 2015 18:35:40 CET, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: >On

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-28 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
at best frustrate! Moreover e.g. when you say "click the installation files icon" which one where do you refer to!? etc On 28 January 2015 at 15:59, Charles-H. Schulz < charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: Dear Philip, Sorry for the question on your laptop; it d

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-28 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
red this before, but: I'm using an almost new Toshiba Laptop with Windows 8.1 & though I followed Stuarts instruction/link in downloading the file with the msi end it said man on the Laptop after this was done - or does that mean I failed to replace the existing man one even though I en

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-28 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Dear Philip, Forgive me to answer before Stuart but do you mean to say that you followed the link and ended up with downloading a file with a .man extension at its end? I have just tried your link and got a file with a .msi ,which is a very common form of Windows Installer. By the way, what

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-28 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Dear Philip, For some reason this thread of discussion does not seem to help and I must confess that it is not clear to me what problem you're doing through aside that you're struggling at the download/installation phase. Would you mind following the steps below and tell us the outcome? As a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Interesting comment about Writer Bugs in LinuxQuestions.org

2015-01-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
fer of help - specific questions and so forth > > - would be a positive counter-balance. > > > > Frank > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Interesting-comment-about-Writer-Bugs-in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Interesting comment about Writer Bugs in LinuxQuestions.org

2015-01-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
icizing of LibreOffice. I'm a married man but I feel somewhat offended by the comparison. Cheers, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://ww

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Support options

2015-01-18 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le dimanche 18 janvier 2015 à 11:40 +0100, Andreas Säger a écrit : > Am 18.01.2015 um 00:07 schrieb Charles-H. Schulz: > > > > I am curious why you are pushing the OpenOffice forum rather than the > > LibreOffice Forum (access via Nabble or the other forum, http:// > &g

[libreoffice-users] Fwd: [libreoffice-marketing] Reminder: LibreOffice Bugzilla Migration will happen next Saturday (Jan 24th)

2015-01-18 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hi, People here may be interested in this: our bugzilla is moving to our own infrastructure, therefore its address will soon change. best, Charles. Message d'origine De : Robinson Tryon Envoyé: 18 janvier 2015 08:13:04 CET À : libreoffice-dev , "des...@global.libreoffice.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Support options

2015-01-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
hello Andreas, On 17 janvier 2015 23:25:30 CET, "Andreas Säger" wrote: >Am 16.01.2015 um 14:48 schrieb Andreas Säger: >> >> As far as content matters, >>> http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php >> >> is the major resource of user knowledge for both OpenOffice and >> LibreOffice users.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Support options

2015-01-15 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
quick >to >> use, intuitive, no passwords or registration, then go for it. If on >the >> other hand they are just following the latest thing, then forget it. >In >> the end, the support solution needs to fit the users needs, not just >be >> cool. >> >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Support options

2015-01-14 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
uot;new groups" means something else, then clarify what is meant. Just to be abundantly clear: this list alongside other lists of LibreOffice.org are available as newsgroups on gmane.org Best, - -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berl

[libreoffice-users] New twitter account for user support

2015-01-13 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello and happy new year everyone, As mentioned here a few weeks ago, we now have an operational twitter account for users support: http://twitter.com/libreofficehelp As such this will provide assistance to users who asks us questions via Twitter and it is community run. Volunteers interested in

[libreoffice-users] New twitter account for user support

2015-01-12 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
in helping through this account are welcome, contact me off list or raise your hand here. Best, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: http://www.documentfoundation.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Recommendations for an Android app?

2014-12-29 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
On 29 décembre 2014 13:47:16 CET, Alexander Thurgood wrote: >Le 29/12/2014 13:00, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : > >Hi Charles, > >> Well.. we are about to have one I think ? >> > >One that allows for editing as well ? At least that would be sometime in 201

Re: [libreoffice-users] Recommendations for an Android app?

2014-12-29 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Well.. we are about to have one I think ? Best, Charles. On 29 décembre 2014 12:51:22 CET, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: >Hi all, >Has anyone got recommendations for an Android app for ODF? >I've currently got Textmaker for ODT but their spreadsheet doesn't do >ODS for some reason. Andropenoff

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 17.12.2014 17:35, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) Thanks! :) It didn't quite work for my newsletter but it may open things up a bit for other documents we have struggled with here. I'm beginning to see why Charles tried to find out about what sort of thing i'm aiming for. Scribus has a LOT of

Re: [libreoffice-users] 'exporting' Odt into Scribus

2014-12-17 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tom, Le 17.12.2014 15:11, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) I do my company newsletter in Writer but want to do the finishing touches in Scribus. Has anyone else tried this? A few years ago someone from this mailing list offered to give me a hand but i had no time to even try it back then.

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Twitter] Opening a new user support channel

2014-12-12 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Gordon, Excellent, we'll sync and talk about this off list. Thanks a lot, Charles. Le Thu, 11 Dec 2014 22:11:52 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 11/12/14 22:08, Charles-H. Schulz wr

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Twitter] Opening a new user support channel

2014-12-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Dave, Jonathon, We are drifting here. We are looking for help , not to compare each others personal preferences. The fact is, we have people looking for support who won't subscribe to mailing lists or newsgroups. They are on social networks and therefore we are expanding there. Volunteers welc

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Twitter] Opening a new user support channel

2014-12-10 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello, Le 10.12.2014 16:58, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/12/14 15:27, dave boland wrote: Charles, May I ask what is wrong with a traditional news group? They work very well, They /did/ work very well. I shouldn't think that anyone unde

[libreoffice-users] [Twitter] Opening a new user support channel

2014-12-10 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello everyone, As you know we provide several options when it comes to users support. There is: - the mailing lists (this one is in English but others exist for other languages) - the forum that is really the Nabble interface to the mailing list - the ask.libreoffice.org website - IRC channel

Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about upcoming 4.3.3 release

2014-10-25 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
l mistake or if the bug report itself has not been updated. I'll ping one of our release managers, Sophie, who just happens to be on that list :-) Sophie, do you have more info on this bug status? Thank you, -- Charles-H. Schulz Co-founder, The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-10 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tom, This archive that you speak of hosts unsupported and unpatched versions that may have major vulnerabilities in them. At no point in time do we recommend the use of this repository. Thanks, Charles. On 10 octobre 2014 21:09:48 CEST, Tom Davies wrote: >Hi :) >Just to deal with just

[libreoffice-users] Q&A on the LibreOffice project

2014-10-03 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hi, I'm intentionally starting a new thread, as Charles's replies this morning raised a few points that are rather important for subscribers of this mailing list to know about. At least it seems that Charles reall assumed certain things about our project that are inaccurate and in turn that m

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
y of remembering this. Cheers, Charles. Regard from Tom :) On 2 October 2014 16:22, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Le 02.10.2014 17:04, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) I don't think that bullying users is particularly clever or productive. bullying? Lets take a completely different sc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 02.10.2014 17:04, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) I don't think that bullying users is particularly clever or productive. bullying? Lets take a completely different scenario as an example. Lets say that someone buys a can-opener. They use it and like it so at Christmas they buy a new one as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tanstaafl, Le 02.10.2014 16:05, Tanstaafl a écrit : On 10/1/2014 11:18 AM, Werner wrote: On 10/1/2014 17:03, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/1/2014 9:25 AM, Werner wrote: On 10/1/2014 14:47, Tanstaafl wrote: I didn't file it (it was already filed), but it is: http://www.libreoffice.org/bugz

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How to handle regressions

2014-10-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 01.10.2014 22:21, Tanstaafl a écrit : On 10/1/2014 12:54 PM, Florian Reisinger wrote: 9 bugs for 30k €. That is a fair price... Continuing reading the thread now... PS: If a volunteer does not tackle your pet bug, you should get someone to fix it (search for "libreoffice L3 support" for ot

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-10-01 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Paul, Le 01.10.2014 00:55, Paul a écrit : Hi Charles, On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 16:32:53 +0200 "Charles-H. Schulz" wrote: Hello Paul On 30 septembre 2014 15:38:26 CEST, Paul wrote: >Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more... > > >On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:5

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-09-30 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Paul On 30 septembre 2014 15:38:26 CEST, Paul wrote: >Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more... > > >On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:54:58 +0200 >"Charles-H. Schulz" wrote: > >> Le 30.09.2014 13:26, Tanstaafl a écrit : >> > On 9/29/2014 2:55 P

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-09-30 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 30.09.2014 13:26, Tanstaafl a écrit : On 9/29/2014 2:55 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Yes, "Fresh" is stable but because it's had new features added we can expect to find that some things that don't so well in "Fresh" and yet still find that they work perfectly fine in "Still". To many of us that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-09-30 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Hedley, We do have alphas betas and rvs for both branches. Just sayin'. Best, Charles. On 30 septembre 2014 11:27:45 CEST, Hedley Finger wrote: >Normally I avoid religious arguments where the Fundamentalist >Parboilians >are just as firmly welded to their position as their opponents the

Re: [libreoffice-users] discuss list

2014-08-14 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Sure. On this page you will not only find the discuss mailing list link, but also to others. Of note : the Board Discuss, where the board of the foundation publishes decisions, votes, etc. Other lists such as the localization, website, marketing, etc are also listed: http://www.documentfoundat

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: What version?

2014-08-11 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello everyone, Quick note in passing. I fail to see how thr discussion on xml standards implementations is of any interest to our users. May I (respectfully) suggest that interested parties bring this conversation to our discuss list? Thank you, Charles. On 11 août 2014 10:40:00 CEST, Owen G

Re: [libreoffice-users] query ...

2014-08-09 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
inue > using these machines. > >And, remember, that you 'experts' on these machines were not > always that way - you too had to ask questions and receive simplified > answers. > > > > From: Charles-H. Schulz > Date: Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 10:26 AM

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Pikov, On 7 août 2014 21:02:17 CEST, Pikov Andropov wrote: >Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 8/7/2014 3:05 AM: >> Hello Pikov, >> >> On 7 août 2014 01:30:57 CEST, Pikov Andropov >wrote: >>>V Stuart Foote wrote on 8/6/2014 6:34 PM: >>>> No great myst

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
On 7 août 2014 21:09:34 CEST, Pikov Andropov wrote: >Charles-H. Schulz wrote on 8/7/2014 3:12 AM: >> Hello again, >> >> On 6 août 2014 23:29:44 CEST, Pikov Andropov >wrote: >>>I'm so confused by the multiple version that I have to ask. >>> >&g

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
b-designers really wanted to fix something how about helping all the >international translators sort theirs out? How about moving into UI or >UX >design and lending a hand there. It's not like there is a shortage of >interesting things to do! Tom : you are becoming really funn

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
homepage clicking on download will dispmay a menu with the two branches. Surely that is an acceptable behaviour? Cheers, Charles. > >But thank you for contributing this constructive information that has >helped this discussion move forward. > >Paul > > > >On Thu, 07 A

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
don't need support. I guess if people were asking for technical support in the social media thing then they would be a bit lost, right! Would you solve their problem for them or push their 'spam' to the proper channels? Regards from Tom :) On 7 August 2014 14:07, Charles-H. Schulz

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
you might expect. Try helping solve users problems on this mailing list for a while and i think you would be surprised. Regards from Tom :) On 7 August 2014 13:54, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Le 07.08.2014 14:28, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) No-Op has been a huge help to many people on this Us

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 07.08.2014 14:50, Paul a écrit : On Thu, 07 Aug 2014 09:59:46 +0200 "Charles-H. Schulz" wrote: Le 07.08.2014 09:54, Tom Davies a écrit : > Hi :) > +1 > (to James's suggestion.) > I think most people on this mailing list would probably agree with > getting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
download. Then set choices kept getting forgotten. Tick-boxes used inappropriately and didn't work. Change just for the sake of change is not always positive. True. Criticizing something for 4 years does not make it right either... Best, Charles. Regards from Tom :) On 7 August 2014 09:09

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
de on anybody's expense. But let's hear what Pikov has to say. Best, Charles. Regards from Tom :) On 7 August 2014 08:59, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Le 07.08.2014 09:54, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) +1 (to James's suggestion.) I think most people on this mailing list would pr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 07.08.2014 09:55, NoOp a écrit : On 08/06/2014 10:01 AM, Florian Reisinger wrote: Hi Tom, If we do not find the bugs in the fresh version, they won't be resolved until the rename to Stable/Still. If less use Fresh, the quality of the next stable will be lower Does this help? No. Bas

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 07.08.2014 09:54, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi :) +1 (to James's suggestion.) I think most people on this mailing list would probably agree with getting the 4.2.6. That is your own wild call and your own opinion. I don't agree with you. Many people don't agree with you. Stop saying somebody sh

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello again, On 6 août 2014 23:29:44 CEST, Pikov Andropov wrote: >I'm so confused by the multiple version that I have to ask. > >Several neighbors are "eligible" for me to install LibreOffice. > >One has Windows XP. >One has Windows 7 and o9ne has Windows 8. >One has Ubuntu and one has Linux Mint

Re: [libreoffice-users] What version?

2014-08-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Pikov, On 7 août 2014 01:30:57 CEST, Pikov Andropov wrote: >V Stuart Foote wrote on 8/6/2014 6:34 PM: >> No great mystery. >> >> If they are more conservative--LibreOffice 4.2.6 is a solid build, >somewhat lacking in the latest office features. >> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
m 11:17 schrieb Tom Davies : > > > > > > > > Hi :) > > > > This seems to be contradicting what Charles is saying. > > > > > > > > Also is it really a good policy to force new and unwitting users > > > > to act as guinea-pigs? Should all new users be pushe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Paul, On 6 août 2014 17:37:58 CEST, Paul wrote: > > > >On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:20:32 +0200 >"Charles-H. Schulz" wrote: > >> Paul : did you intend to post this off list? > >No, sorry, my bad for not checking the address. I just clicked "reply&

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 06.08.2014 16:14, Paul a écrit : On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 12:05:08 +0200 Sophie wrote: > Clearly it is not so easy for new people to figure it out otherwise > we wouldn't keep on having to answer this same question from so > many new users. So you answer them and they will know, this is how sup

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le 06.08.2014 16:22, Paul a écrit : On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:56:13 +0200 "Charles-H. Schulz" wrote: LTS will never, however magically produce a "better quality release" No, not magically, but by the very nature of it being around for longer it will, in the end, result in a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Each branch has its own release candidates, even its final release candiates. Each branch is autonomous (has its master branch, if you will), and has its stable releases. BTW: we don't reinvent the wheel here, this is how development works and the use of terminology we use (alphas, betas, releas

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
w versions as often as a LibreOffice fan with unlimited broadband might. Regards from Tom :) On 6 August 2014 12:56, Charles-H. Schulz < charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: Nino, Right on target; I could not have said it better. As for the release pace there is a theory tha

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tim, Le 06.08.2014 15:04, Kracked_P_P---webmaster a écrit : We have developed a "cycle" for each line where we know that x.x.0 is the newest and x.x.6/7 is the most mature of that line. So we should use that idea. Yes we have two lines. Yes there is an idea of maturity vs. younger/fresh

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Nino, Right on target; I could not have said it better. As for the release pace there is a theory that suggests that slowing it to a rearly rythmn would decrease the intetest of developers. But that is obviously a theory, and cannot be an exact science. Best, Charles. On 6 août 2014 13:50:57

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Tom, First, both Nino and Sophie's answers are really good. Mine was just trying to be simple and short. I think, just like Sophie suggested, that you are still thinking along the "stable-unstable" pattern. My answer, by the way, does not contraddict Nino or Sophie. Let me take two -al

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Still?

2014-08-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Pikov On 6 août 2014 07:29:17 CEST, Pikov Andropov wrote: >Florian Reisinger wrote on 8/6/2014 1:22 AM: >> Hi, >> The problem we have: We do not have one release branch as Firefox >has, we have two... Users should use and find bugs on the "Fresh" >version in order to make thee fresh, which

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