Planet go-oo

Eric Bachard: OOoLight

2010-09-02T17:00:09+00:00

EducOOo presents OOoLight

OOo4Kids is made for children ( 7-12 ), but after some times, it appears that older people want a light office suite too :-)

So we had the Fun idea to start from OOo4Kids 1.0, and to propose a new light office suite based on OOo4Kids.

Naturally, its name is OOoLight.

Currently, we test with Norwegian Bokmål ( Windows only ), but if the software is appreciated, maybe we'll provide other locales.

=> Download OOoLight ( Norwegian Bokmål, for Windows, only, who can be installed in parallel with OOo and OOo4Kids)

For further information, about the Norwegian version, have a look there

As usual, the Design is made by Ben Bois

Last but not least, if some feature is enough interesting, there is no problem for a backport in OpenOffice.org (OOoLight is provided under LGPL v3 License, fully compatible with OOo )

Some screenshots for the poor other :

The splashscreen :

The new Start Center :

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Education Project on the wiki
EducOO.org blog (french)
OOo4Kids

Many thanks to Ben Bois , author of the EducOOo Logo

Gullfoss: Print file format changes on Linux

2010-09-02T16:23:46+00:00

The CUPS print system that is used on Linux and other Unix operating systems is switching its file format from PostScript to PDF. As part of this OpenOffice.org should switch its print output file format to PDF, too. This was implemented in OOo for issue 94173.

The corresponding CWS pdfprint is going "Ready for QA" today and since this affects an area where we should have broad testing with a variety of systems and printers, I put an install set of the CWS at:

ftp://qa-upload.services.openoffice.org/pdfprint/linux-x86/OOo_DEV300m86_Linux_x86_install-arc_en-US.tar.gz

Please feel free to check this install set and see if it gives you printing related trouble. Ideally this change should be transparent for the user, that is you print your documents just as you did before. The only visible change is that "Print to file" would now produce PDF instead of PostScript; also you can switch the behavior back to the old one in either the (not well known) spadmin utility or per print job: in the Print dialog open "Properties..." , go to the "Device" TabPage and change the "Printer Language type" to either PDF or the desired PostScript Level.

Disclaimer: of course you should remember that this is a Child Workspace build, that is a development version. It will have the same issues that the correspoding Master Workspace (DEV300 m86) has and should not be used in a production environment.

For those that would like to test this on Solaris: here is a Solaris (x86) install set:

f tp://qa-upload.services.openoffice.org/pdfprint/solaris-x86/OOo_DEV300m86_Solaris_x86_install-arc_en-US.tar.gz

On Solaris however CUPS is rather optional, so you would not get a PDF print output there necessarily.

IssueZilla: New issues: Thu Sep 2 13:43:01 UTC 2010

2010-09-02T13:43:35+00:00

#i114273# - Database access: Query wizard: cannot set more than 2 conditions at "3.Serach conditions"
#i114263# - Database access: database changes not discarded after opening a table a second time
#i114266# - framework: I want batch addons
#i114264# - framework: Registration screen options
#i114272# - framework: Remove password minimum length (5) for Master Password
#i114269# - qa: Distribute OOo 3.3.0 - Basque (eu)
#i114271# - qa: [Automation]: Adapt export tests to new dialogs
#i114265# - sw: Export or printing selection of tail part of numbered list shifts numeration
#i114270# - sw: Incorrect RTF export when using multiple footers
#i114267# - sw: code clean-up: remove SwPreviewPrintOptionsDialog
#i114268# - sw: common form document are very slow to load

IssueZilla: New issues: Thu Sep 2 03:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-09-02T03:43:20+00:00

#i114257# - Presentation: user defined animation not saved
#i114258# - framework: Cannot launch OOo 3.2.1 in OSX 10.5.8 - suddenly stopped working
#i114261# - framework: Error loading BASIC of document
#i114262# - framework: OOo.org 3.3b runs once
#i114259# - sw: Printing sets document modified status
#i114260# - sw: Will not print

IssueZilla: New issues: Wed Sep 1 13:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-09-01T13:43:54+00:00

#i114245# - Database access: (potential) crash when opening the "Format" dialog for a database table column
#i114246# - Database access: [CWS fs33a] [ORB] joined tables (at least in sample document) broken
#i114247# - Database access: [cws fs33a] + and - sign missing in xml form navigator
#i114252# - Presentation: incorrect multiple slide selection
#i114253# - Presentation: selection lost after dragging multiple slides
#i114238# - framework: Display error in the german "Speichern unter..." dialog.
#i114244# - framework: [CWS findbar02] Message box "re-search from bottom" although string not found
#i114241# - framework: [CWS findbar02] Search upwards brings up message box "Reached top, continue from bottom?"
#i114242# - framework: [CWS findbar02] Search with keyboard not working when search direction changes
#i114243# - framework: [CWS findbar02] keyboard search gets no notification with when re-searching from top/bottom
#i114250# - qa: [Automation]:g_tools.bas: Doc not editable
#i114249# - qa: [Automation][DBA_FRM_FORMS.BAS] has two warnings on MAC
#i114255# - qa: [si] Distribute 3.2.1rc2 - Sinhala localization as final
#i114256# - sc: DataPilot from external service saves wrong field information
#i114254# - sc: Offline working with OOo 3.2 Strange
#i114240# - sc: print dialog does not preselect "Selected cells"
#i114239# - sw: In a large Writer document, Comment notes are not displayed at file open.
#i114251# - sw: open a docx crashed ooo-dev 3.3 beta 1 (build 9524)
#i114248# - www: HG commit access

Martin Hollmichel: OpenOffice.org 3.3

2010-09-01T13:32:02+00:00

People wondered why there is no release date defined in http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease33. For the past releases there was a detailed, complete release plan including date for all details in advance. That schedule is important for involved people (like l10n, qa and marketing folks) to plan their resources for the release and make the release process transparent for all.

With the current release we did not enter all concrete release details in this plan. In the past those dates were not that reliable, we missed schedules in the translation area, we missed schedules with frequent release candidates and due to miscellaneous other problems. Because of that we are now entering the date for the next upcoming milestones we know for sure but not for all dates in the future. As the release process is in general defined all participants are able to do the time estimation for their slots after the start of the release process, meaning the branch off of the code line.

Continue making the release date public although we know that there is a high probability that we miss the date is setting the wrong expectations to the public. And we continue to get reactions again like: "The OpenOffice.org release is delayed again."

The release status meeting stay responsible for the release coordination, so if there are questions or concerns please don't hesitate to show up there.

IssueZilla: New issues: Wed Sep 1 03:43:01 UTC 2010

2010-09-01T03:43:23+00:00

#i114231# - framework: Wiki Publisher cannot login on newer MediaWiki versions (approx: 1.16)
#i114236# - l10n: OOo Bidi
#i114233# - sw: Add Word to Dictionary: Not Functioning
#i114234# - sw: in RTL UI paragraph aligment is displayed opposite
#i114235# - sw: last line in papragraph should also be align to the right
#i114232# - sw: lost formatting related to lost preferences
#i114237# - sw: vanessa

IssueZilla: New issues: Tue Aug 31 13:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-31T13:43:27+00:00

#i114224# - Database access: Indexes do not work
#i114227# - Drawing: DRAW CRASH WHEN ZOOM
#i114228# - Presentation: Impress: Generating invalid ODF documents containing hyperlinks to other slides
#i114230# - framework: .stw file extension conflicts with Esker's SmarTerm software
#i114225# - framework: Wrong use of %productname variable in Document Converter
#i114226# - framework: soffice.bin process + virtual memory
#i114222# - sc: Bad fallback positioning with multiple Uniscribe script items for currency format
#i114223# - sw: Problem after footnote
#i114229# - www: Localized header elements for Finnish website

Michael Meeks: 2010-08-31: Tuesday.

2010-08-31T10:05:44+00:00

Up at 6am, hiked to Preson Park, train to Gatwick, waited for delayed flight. Extremely impressed with the battery life on this new Duo (with SSD). Caught up with the news variously.
Read Simon's excellent position oncontributor agreements, with relation to the (potentially problematic) Project Harmony.
Highly amused by an article in The Economist on 'the cost of weapons'. Learned an important new German term: Eierlegende Wollmilchsau or "egg-producing wool-milk-sow" (apparently this is the A400M specification) - could there really be engineering and business problems with a-priori over-specification ? Another priceless quote:
In Iraq and Afghanistan numbers matter more than firepower. The same applies to warships fighting pirates off the coast of Somalia; a ship cannot be in two places at the same time. As Stalin reputedly said, "Quantity has a quality all of its own".
Read a nice article on gcc with some helpful reminiscence on the egcs/gcc fork and its resolution.

Eric Bachard: OOo4Kids 1.0 ported on Archlinux !!

2010-08-31T07:59:09+00:00

gyo and Coolgeek prepared the archives ( 13 locales available ! )

So, if you are an "archer" just add archlinuxfr server in your /etc/pacman.conf (as root, either using sudo or su):

In case of Intel 64 bits architecture, add:

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64

In case of Intel 32 bits archtecture, add :

[archlinuxfr]

Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686 # Intel 32 bits architecture

Install it :

Supposing you use sudo (please adapt to your need if you use su ), the next steps for the installation are :

sudo pacman -Sy # to make the archlinuxfr repo available, and OOo4Kids archives found

sudo pacman -S ooo4kids # just install OOo4Kids basis (en-US only)

Or, more generaly :

sudo pacman -S ooo4kids-$locale # replace $locale with one in the list : ar, de, es, fi , fr, it, nb, nl, pt, sl, zh-CN, zh-TW
e.g.for french : sudo pacman -S ooo4kids-fr # just install OOo4Kids for french

Enjoy !!

Thanks to Calimeroteknik, gyo and Coolgeek who did an awesome work to port OOo4Kids on archlinux !!

Other link (in french) : the full Archlinux port story

IssueZilla: New issues: Tue Aug 31 03:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-31T03:43:45+00:00

#i114206# - Presentation: Shape properties are shared for same shape type before insertion
#i114214# - Presentation: pdf does not rotate text in presentations
#i114212# - framework: already created window jumps to another virtual desktop, when documenta has loaded
#i114220# - framework: can not save files
#i114207# - framework: framework::ModuleUIConfigurationManager::dispose crash during shutdown
#i114215# - gsl: canvas/source/vcl cannot be built with DBG_UTIL / VERBOSE
#i114209# - gsl: forms/qa/unoapi forms.OGridControlModel::com::sun::star::view::XSelectionSupplier crash
#i114213# - gsl: toolkit/qa/unoapi toolkit.AccessibleMenu::com::sun::star::accessibility::XAccessibleSelection failure
#i114217# - sw: "Insert Header" insert footer
#i114219# - sw: Disabled PDF hyperlinks with Adobe Reader 9
#i114221# - sw: Image files not saving when anchored to frame
#i114216# - sw: In RTL UI note options is over program border
#i114210# - sw: PDF export will generate only one page doc instead of two
#i114208# - vba: Operator precedence of 'Not' inconsistent with Excel VBA
#i114218# - website: Updates for support.openoffice.org page
#i114211# - xml: xmloff/qa/unoapi xmloff.Draw.XMLStylesImporter::com::sun::star::lang::XInitialization crash

Shaun McDonald: Cycling: London to Dover overnight

2010-08-31T00:36:27+00:00

With the English bank holiday weekend (Scotland has the August bank holiday on the first Monday instead of the last), I thought that I would go for one of my longer cycle rides and see if I could beat my previous record of 150 miles. On the Saturday morning I packed the 4.5 litre of water, home made pasta, chocolate and extra clothing layers into my panniers. I finally got going at 1pm, which was a lot later than I was expecting.

The first part of my journey was heading north to the River Thames on the Waterlink Way/National Cycle Route 21. Then I followed the Thames to the Woolwich ferry using the NCN4 and 1. I decided to add a little extra adventure to my journey by crossing the River Thames a couple of times. First using the Woolwich Ferry to get to the North bank, which is free. Then following a part of the new Cycle SuperHighway 3, which is a rebranding of the previous cycle path that it runs along, to head east towards my next crossing. To get back to the South bank of the Thames, I used the Dartford crossing. You can’t cycle over, however a free pickup truck service is provided to take cyclist and bike over to the other side.

After a nice chat about traffic and cycling with the traffic officer who took me across, I then re-joined the National Cycle Route 1 most of the way to Whitstable. I decided to follow a straighter new cycle route from just before Gravesend to Strood, which is part of the old A2 prior to it being upgraded.

Shortly after Sittingbourne while following the NCN1, I seen on the right hand side of the road a car with the two door windows smashed a couple of people and another vehicle, which looked rather unusual. I continued further up the road until I was out of sight, as I didn’t know how they would react and then reported the car break-in to the police via a 999 call. As I didn’t know how to describe my current location well, thus I took a photo of the screen on my phone (which ended up against my face while talking thus unable to look at the screen) with the latitude and longitude, and gave the lat/lon to the operator, which worked. On Sunday afternoon I got a phone call from the police following up with some clarifications to the useful evidence. They were pleased that I had phoned in the incident as a witness as most people would have just turned a blind eye.

A bit further down the road I stopped to eat some of my pasta, and suddenly some dark rain clouds came over and the heavens opened. Luckily it was just a fairly short shower and I had managed to find a bit of shelter for it to pass. It did worry me a bit as to how much more rain there would be for the rest of my journey. Luckily once that cloud passed it was clear for the rest of my journey.

From Whitstable I followed the coast, much of which was on the path or promenades that runs along the edge of the sea. As I was getting into Ramsgate at about 2 am after 107 miles, I was getting too tired to be able to continue the rest of the night further round the coast safely, so I found a nice bench and shelter overlooking the sea to put my head down for a few hours. Luckily I had a towel with me that I was able to use as a pillow.

Shortly after 5am I set off again slightly refreshed with the first signs of dawn. The route of the NCN1 down to Deal is quite nice. After Deal however it turns inland a little and into a very long climb that seems to just go on forever. It was nice to be able to get to the top and see the nice view across the English Channel. After a little decent there is the White Cliffs of Dover National Trust site, which has a nice view overlooking Dover ferry port. (Yeah, I’m sure you already know that I quite like travelling by ferry from time to time.)

From there I headed down the short and steep downhill into Dover, the downhill was over way too quick considering the amount of uphill. I then took the train home, going the full length of the straight track from Ashford to Redhill (with a change at Tonbridge). The reason I mention it, is because it does look quite strange or unusual at lower zooms on a map, when there generally is more curves in rail lines.

On the Sunday late afternoon/evening I took a nice 5 hour nap to catch up my sleep, before getting up for a few hours to catch up on a few things before heading back to bed for a full nights sleep.

In total it was 133 miles over 20 hours, which is my second longest cycle in one go. The Dunwich Dynamo was 127 miles including the ride to the start. At some point in the future I want to ride from Dover anti-clockwise round the coast, particularly to try hill out of Dover and the long downhill into Deal. I’d also like to do Dover-Brighton via the NCN2.

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Michael Meeks: 2010-08-30: Monday.

2010-08-30T21:00:00+00:00

Up early, breakfast, out shopping for misc. omitted party items, did some work, lunch. Out shopping again for vegetarian sausages - which live in a carefully camouflagued section of Tescos (in a freezer).
Back for Miriam's party, barbeque mayhem, playing the guitar for various musical games (log-pot tragically failed in the portable CD player), trying to force feed the assorted children & parents, and so on. Good to see Sue, Adam & James too.
Bid farewell to them all; Cheryl kindly dropped me to the station, set off - using the new Android device, which (now I'm not in the middle of no-where) seems to have some great Edge/3G connectivity, even on the train.
Reviewed, merged, and pushed the next set of awesome bootchart2 work from Riccardo. Wondered how I can get an ESRCH (No such process) response from a pread at a valid address, on a memory map of a (live) process' /proc/<pid>/mem particularly when the process is still alive afterwards (with the same pid); most odd.

IssueZilla: New issues: Mon Aug 30 13:43:01 UTC 2010

2010-08-30T13:43:41+00:00

#i114204# - Database access: Refreshing Fields with a BLOB-Content
#i114203# - Installation: INSTALLATION PROBLEM
#i114196# - Installation: Missing dependencies when using unopkg in postinstall
#i114197# - Presentation: Slide show started from wrong slide.
#i114200# - Presentation: impress provides only limited ways of specifying the date/time format in corresponding fields
#i114201# - framework: Custom single quotes should be enabled by default
#i114202# - sc: DataPilot field setting "Show items without data" is wrong after save & reload
#i114194# - sc: Excel files dropdown menus sometimes blank
#i114192# - sw: docx: does not import text shading/background color
#i114199# - sw: selection (and positioning) of text with special unicode characters have bad bounds
#i114205# - sw: sw/qa/unoapi sw.SwAccessibleParagraphView::com::sun::star::accessibility::XAccessibleText::copyText() failed
#i114198# - sw: sw: NULL pIndex in SwCallLink::~SwCallLink
#i114193# - tools: configure: accept CppUnit 1.12.0
#i114195# - udk: xBitmapContainer.insertByName does not seem to work

Eric Bachard: Improving Math Equation editor (part 1: present the problems)

2010-08-30T09:46:46+00:00

English version :

Since a long time, I appreciate the Math equation editor shipped with OpenOffice.org. It is not perfect, but I like it, even if it needs some improvements.

For the record, the most famous issue was :

equations misaligned ( see the famous 9-years-old issue 972 )

But we can easely add those one :

equation(s) size to be modified as simple highlighted text, when selected
missing symbols : bow ( little round arc over letters, to define an angle)
missing symbols : |--->
accented greek letters : counterproductive, and sometimes a bit boring

The first time I worked on that, was at the great Go-OoCon ( Prague, 2008 ), where I presented the basics of Starmath.

BTW to Novell, feel free to organize a new one ;-) .. was a great moment for people writting code, because mostly code oriented.

Since, I continued to study this part of OOo, and I even wrote a basic Starmath sources description. To avoid a company-controlled wiki, everythingis on the OOo4Kids wiki (feel free to complete if you see missing / errors .. ).

The idea, was to help students interested to contribute, and share the knowledge.

And the good thing is, that Go-Oo was selected as project for the Google Summer of code. I was proud to see Novell people welcome me in its GSoc Team, and at the end, we (my friend Fridrich*** and me) were lucky to obtain 2 students working on the Math improvment !!

In the next part, I'll present all the actors who participated, and how we worked.

***Congratulations for the recent happy event :)

French version :

Depuis très longtemps, j'apprécie l'éditeur d'équations Math intégré dans OpenOffice.org. Il n'est pas parfait, mais je l'aime bien, même s'il a besoin d'être amélioré.

Pour mémoire, le bug le plus connu était :

équation non alignées ( voir (en anglais) see la fameuse issue 972, âgée de 9 ans déjà )

Mais nous pouvons facilement ajouter dans la liste les autres problèmes énoncés ci-dessous :

taille des équations modifiable comme du texte, lorsque mis en surbrillance
symboles manquants : bow ( petit arc de cercle permettant de définir un angle)
symbole manquant : |--->
lettres grecques accentuées : contre-productif, et certaines fois un peu ch...

La première fois que j'ai travaillé sur ces éditeur, c'était pour la super Go-OoCon ( Prague, 2008 ), où j'ai présenté les bases de Starmath.

Au fait, (pour Novell), vous pouvez en organiser une nouvelle quand vous voulez ;-) .. c'était vraiment un super souvenir, pour les codeurs, parce que justement seulement orientée code.

Depuis, j'ai continué à étudier cette partie d'OOo, et j'ai même écrit une description des sources de Starmath. Afin de ne plus utiliser un wiki "compagnie-controlé", tout a été délibérément mis sur le wiki d'OOo4Kids (merci de compléter et ou corriger toute erreur ou oubli .. ).

L'idée principale consiste à aider les étudiants, et surtout, à partager cette connaissance.

Et alors, la bonne nouvelle, c'est que Go-Oo a été sélectionné en tant que projet pour le Google Summer of code. Et j'ai été fier de voir les devs de Novelle m'accueillir comme ils l'ont fait dans leur équipe du GSoC. Mieux, nous avons même eu la chance, (mon ami Fridrich*** et moi) d'botenir deux slots pour des étudiants travaillant sur l'amélioration de Math !!

Dans la prochaine partie, je présenterai tous les acteurs ayant participé, et comment nous avons travaillé.

***Félicitations pour le récent joyeux événement :-)

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Education Project on the wiki
EducOO.org blog (french)
OOo4Kids

Many thanks to Ben Bois , author of the EducOOo Logo

Gullfoss: New: OOo-DEV 3.3.x Developer Snapshot (build OOO330m6) available

2010-08-30T08:32:41+00:00

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev OOO330m6 is available for download.

OOO330 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.3.x releases.

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

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO330m6_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO330m6_md5sums.txt

Gullfoss: New: OOo-DEV 3.x Developer Snapshot (build DEV300m87) available

2010-08-30T08:30:11+00:00

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev DEV300m87 is available for download.

DEV300 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.x releases.

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

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/DEV300m87_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/DEV300m87_md5sums.txt

IssueZilla: New issues: Mon Aug 30 03:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-30T03:43:40+00:00

#i114189# - Database access: Base crashes when using query filters / sorts on columns created by correlated subqueries
#i114188# - Database access: Base query that references another query fails if subquery has order by statement
#i114187# - Database access: Cannot see/remove query sorts from "order by" statement in query view
#i114186# - Drawing: WaE: DEV300_m87: slidesorter
#i114182# - Presentation: White Flash When Starting Presenter Mode / Dual Monitors
#i114184# - api: Grey out the text on macro buttons when the macros are disabled.
#i114190# - documentation: Certification decision process
#i114185# - framework: While painting the menu and label controls the text gets distorted.
#i114181# - sc: If I open OOO while closing, it hangs.
#i114183# - sc: LINEST is missing standard errors in some trivial cases
#i114191# - sc: toolbar sort range incorrect with more than one heading row

Michael Meeks: 2010-08-29: Sunday.

2010-08-29T21:00:00+00:00

Lie in, off to All Saints (NCC not meeting it seems). Max preached briefly, good to walk homw with Bronie & Robin (recently avoiding death in a falling ladder episode).
Had Effie and Dee over for lunch, lovely to spend some time with them. Set too cleaning the house a little for the onslaught of babies tomorrow. Girls watched the lame children's movie: Stuart Little.
Got accidentally swallowed by Hannah's bed-time story: the Lord of the Rings; stayed up deep into the night getting Saruman finished off properly.

IssueZilla: New issues: Sun Aug 29 13:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-29T13:43:13+00:00

#i114179# - Drawing: Transparent pdf export color broken
#i114177# - l10n: l10n: [JA] UI not translated
#i114180# - sw: OO crash on enabling "support assistive technology tools" and opening a Basic Macro file
#i114178# - sw: URL detection should be implementable in spell checker

IssueZilla: New issues: Sun Aug 29 03:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-29T03:43:27+00:00

#i114173# - Database access: Primary key in Base Forms are not shown
#i114170# - Installation: Installation hangs in unopkg
#i114175# - sc: Failure to redraw after Insert Row
#i114176# - sw: Saving a document with page borders as Word 97/2000/XP damages document.
#i114169# - sw: Text with footnotes jumps page under certain condition
#i114172# - sw: Writer cannot produce borderless print.
#i114174# - sw: Writer crash when anchor of shape set to "As character"
#i114171# - ui: Tango icon theme is badly out of date

Michael Meeks: 2010-08-28: Saturday.

2010-08-28T21:00:00+00:00

Up early, packed everything into the car, roof-box, etc. Off to see Sandra's to swim in the pool again - M. finally shed her fear of the water and started swimming lengths at crazy speed in her swimming ring, good.
Picked some apples, had lunch, bid 'bye to the parents & thanks for their help, and set off to drive home. Three and a bit hours later (a very clear drive) arrived.
Unpacked variously, fed the babes, read them stories. Started on the inbox, oh dear ... perhaps a mistake; but it's a bank holiday on Monday too it seems.
Interested to read that Wheat has been tentatively sequenced:
The wheat genome is the largest genome decoded to date. It is five times larger than the human genome and is known to be a very complex structure, comprised of three independent genomes.(BBC)
Interesting - if you were astounded by having an ~identical genome to a chimpanzee, perhaps it is time to get a bigger-is-better inferiority complex going with your breakfast cereal; alternatively - time to start collecting base-pairs (or chromosomes ?).

EIS: OOO330_m6 ready for use.

2010-08-28T14:55:16+00:00

OOO330_m6 has been built by Hamburg RE. No open build problems are known, and smoketest has been passed successfully.

Tasks and their ChildWorkspaces for Milestone OOO330m6

Child Workspaces integrated:

automationooo330m5

calc58

Calc fixes for OOo3.3

coc03

ext004

fwk152

Show stopper issues for OOo 3.3

mib18

ooo33gsl06

3.3 stoppers

ooo33gsl07

More 3.3 stoppers

sw33bf08

OOo 3.3 show stopper fixes in Writer and some dictionary updates

ooo330m6masterfix

IssueZilla: New issues: Sat Aug 28 13:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-28T13:43:17+00:00

#i114166# - Database access: Illegal operation on empty result set/MySQL
#i114168# - l10n: untranslsated string in UI for pt-BR
#i114167# - sc: Print wide tables on one page with „intelligent broken“ lines
#i114165# - sc: Spreadsheet cells, custom system color conflict
#i114164# - sw: Tables vanish when saving in .doc format

EIS: DEV300_m87 ready for use.

2010-08-28T11:55:17+00:00

DEV300_m87 has been built by Hamburg RE. No open build problems are known, and smoketest has been passed successfully.

Tasks and their ChildWorkspaces for Milestone DEV300m87

Child Workspaces integrated:

automationdev300m85

automationdev300m86graphics

changeannouncemail2

add cross merged cwses in mail body

cmcfixes77

misc warnings and build fixes

codecleanup02

Remove unused code

dv20

Bugfixes for OpenOffice.org 3.4

pl07

FIx some issues regarding API tests

renaissance1

Features and bug fixes for project Renaissance

vcl114

3.4 tasks

dev300m87masterfix

automationooo330m3

This CWS only affects automated tests which have been run locally, so there are no entries in QUASTe.
Please clone for DEV300

automationooo330m4

automation CWS with latest fixes for both OOO330 and DEV300

fwk151

Showstoppers for OOo 3.3

graphite04

Solutions for graphite related OOo330-showstoppers

jl154

Extension manager and other showstopper issues

jl157

Showstopper issues

mav56

OOo 3.3 showstopper cws.

native324

OOo 3.3 installation tasks

ooo33gsl05

3.3 stoppers

txtl10n

support for help.tree files and text files (.xtx)
no office code touched

ooo330m5masterfix

calc57

Calc/Chart fixes for OOo3.3

l10nfixer01

Fix one l10n issue.

narrow02_OOO330

Update Liberation fonts to an official release which includes the narrow font faces

obo49

Bugfix for mwsfinish/mwstag.pl

ooo33gsl04

3.3 show stoppers

sb128

work around sysdtrans deadlock in smoketest on Windows-2003 buildbot

tl83_OOO330

Misc fixes for OOO 3.3.

vgbugs10_OOO330

Contains some fixes for build tool & SourceConfig.pm

writerfilter08ooo330

apply changes in writerfilter08 on OOO330

ooo330m4masterfix

automationooo330m1

For testautomation fixes that go only into OOO3.3

calc56

Calc/Chart bugfixes for 3.3

fwk150

Show stoppers for OpenOffice.org 3.3

impress196

Showstopper fixes for OOo 3.3

mhu23

Use recommended Windows linker flags, and DLL search path.

mib17

native322

Preparing JRE 6 u21

native323

OOo 3.3 installation tasks

ooo330l10n

Localizations for OOo 3.3

ooo33gsl03

3.3 stoppers

ooo330m3masterfix

IssueZilla: New issues: Sat Aug 28 03:43:01 UTC 2010

2010-08-28T03:43:46+00:00

#i114149# - Chart: ODF: "chart:error-indicator" is missing "dimension" attribute
#i114153# - Database access: Form fields don't show text values
#i114154# - Presentation: Impress crash with com::sun::star::lang::IllegalArgumentException
#i114160# - framework: Change Password Dialog for Connection Shows Wrong Dialog
#i114151# - framework: Side pane of extension is left after deinstallation of it's extension
#i114161# - framework: Undocked Tasks Pane Changes Position Creating a new Document
#i114155# - framework: configmgr: fall back to "en" locale
#i114148# - framework: unotools: contains an unused copy of menuoptions.cxx
#i114156# - l10n: [ZA] Update localistaions for all South African languages
#i114159# - sc: Zoom slider color in preview
#i114150# - sc: [Calc] button to set macro's level security doesn't work
#i114152# - sw: "Hindi" vs. "Arabic" numerals (again)
#i114162# - sw: ODF : attribute "config:type" has a bad value.
#i114163# - sw: ODF : attribute "style:page-number" has a bad value.
#i114158# - sw: typeface "condensed" not honoured by Openoffice Writer on Linux
#i114157# - www: windows wont start

Michael Meeks: 2010-08-27: Friday.

2010-08-27T21:00:00+00:00

Everyone off to Fountains Abbey to admire the ancient ruins of the monastary there. Some spectacular construction and architecture by the Cistercians - apparently they started their first monestary in a swamp - on purpose to make it harder to live there: which as a side-effect made them experts in water management. Lots of wandering in the sun with the babes, admiring the mill's water works, and so on.
Read the amusing literature, on eg. lead water pipes, something approximately like this:
"The Monks used lead pipes for their water, but nationally we replaced our lead water piping forty years ago. There are three problems with lead piping - first, hair loss (not such a big issue for Monks), second - loss of short term memory, and third - I can't remember."
Home in the evening, ice creams from England's (nominally) oldest sweet shop. Watched Howel's Moving Castle with the babes, fed them dinner, and left the parents to baby-sit them.
Out for dinner with my wife - bliss. Swift pint beforehand, then really an extraordiarily good restaurant The Willow at Pateley Bridge - amazed to find such unusually good food. Back, bed late.

IssueZilla: New issues: Fri Aug 27 13:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-27T13:43:30+00:00

#i114142# - Chart: ODF: attribute "chart:axis-label-position" has a bad value
#i114146# - framework: OOo Filepicker: Auto Completion Problem
#i114147# - framework: OOo crashes when VisioVoice is active
#i114140# - framework: Report Builder extension is called 'Oracle Report Builder'
#i114143# - qa: [Automation] [c_updt_2.bas ] tToolsLanguageThesaurus : replace with is not filled
#i114141# - qa: [Automation] control not filled after open dialog
#i114137# - sc: Please paste the result of the filter for a number
#i114138# - sc: Regression: Fill or Paste too slow
#i114144# - sc: wrtier crashes on opening a file
#i114139# - sw: OLE Objects suddenly disappear
#i114145# - tools: remove TESTDIR support from solenv/inc/tg_shl.mk

Caolan McNamara: “the community”

2010-08-27T08:51:00+00:00

I rather dislike “the community” as a term, it’s too easy to mentally substitute it as other people or useful idiots.

IssueZilla: New issues: Fri Aug 27 03:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-27T03:43:29+00:00

#i114135# - Drawing: svx/cui/etc: default "document" colour
#i114131# - Presentation: transitioning backwardsjumps whole slide, does not go backwards through object effects
#i114127# - framework: better configmgr -> UniversalContentBroker::changesOccurred notifications
#i114134# - gsl: Graphite integration with multiple features turned on does not always work correctly
#i114128# - sc: Import legacy drawing controls from XLSX/XLSM/XLSB
#i114132# - sc: When saving a spreadsheet the cells formatted as date are modified
#i114133# - sw: Crash when opening specific docx file
#i114130# - sw: Graphics appear on wrong pages when printing booklets
#i114129# - sw: ooo330l10n2: list of attributes in search dialog not localized
#i114136# - website: Register Now button forced down/out of box by inline error on submit

Michael Meeks: 2010-08-26: Thursday.

2010-08-26T21:00:00+00:00

Off to find a suitable river to muck about in with the babes - to attempt to teach them what rivers are for - and to expunge the Townie "ooh my dress might get muddy"
Much fun paddling and slipping about in a river, seemingly near an old Roman road. Suitable dam building exploits - fitting considering the rocky terrain. Training in the ubiquity of sheep, rabbit etc. droppings and the necessity of treading on them if you are to make any progress. Much successful de-townification.
On to an abandoned lime kiln on the moors, and climbed up to an observation point over a huge limestone quarry - completely invisible from the road / nearby - with grass banks concealing and muting a vast pit packed with interesting looking machines. The girls took a great interest in the various mechanical monsters and their roles, but were disapointed by a lack of blasting.
On into Grassington and through to find a pleasant spot near the river to have a picnic lunch;
Home, to watch Jurrasic Park together; hmm. Then dinner and packed everyone off to bed.
Amazed to see the British media reporting news like this
Doctors with religious beliefs are less likely to take decisions which could hasten the death of those who are terminally ill, a study suggests
. Odd that the converse is not the news: Doctors with no religious beliefs are more likely to take decisions which could hasten death ... etc. I hope my doctor has a high commitment to (at least my) life.

IssueZilla: New issues: Thu Aug 26 13:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-26T13:43:24+00:00

#i114122# - Database access: image controls cannot embed images in the document (anymore)
#i114123# - Drawing: Loop while loading *.eps
#i114119# - framework: Drawing is differnt with the original one if switch between Area Tabs
#i114125# - framework: [numberformatter] NaN double values with decimal separator
#i114124# - sw: Full stop is included in spell checking
#i114120# - sw: Importing doc from 3.2.1 results in Read Only
#i114126# - sw: Spell checking and grammar checking interfere
#i114121# - tools: autodoc generates no doc for uno services which contain a constructor

IssueZilla: New issues: Thu Aug 26 03:43:01 UTC 2010

2010-08-26T03:43:45+00:00

#i114109# - Database access: [SRB] ODF reports: generator in meta.xml
#i114111# - Database access: [SRB] ODF spreadsheet report: invalid style:column-width
#i114105# - Database access: [SRB] ODF text reports invalid: office:version in settings.xml
#i114108# - Database access: [SRB] ODF text reports: invalid cells: missing office:boolean-value attribute
#i114106# - Database access: [SRB] ODF text reports: invalid root element in styles.xml
#i114107# - Database access: [SRB] ODF text reports: invalid style:text-combine-start-char attribute
#i114110# - Drawing: PDF Documents do not open correctly
#i114116# - Presentation: Extension Manager Check for updates window spin loops, Mac OS X
#i114113# - Presentation: Slide Copy - Table format
#i114112# - l10n: Tools Options menu Writer/Web
#i114114# - sc: Saving templates
#i114115# - sw: Alphabetical index: controlling sorting
#i114104# - sw: Assertion on copy paste when Accessibility is ON
#i114118# - sw: DOCX: Incomplete content displayed
#i114117# - sw: DOCX: cannot position images that are not in line with text.
#i114103# - sw: using fetch format scrolls the document

Michael Meeks: 2010-08-25: Wednesday.

2010-08-25T21:00:00+00:00

Up early, J. app't with doctor. Off to Sandra's to swim again, swum the morning away happily - followed by some fruit picking and lunch.
Off to Brimham Rocks in the afternoon - much clambering over rocks. Uncle John came over - really lovely to see him, wrecked precious SUSE Labs T-shirt, and one of few remaining intact pairs of trousers while attempting some ridiculous climbing feat with two children - succeeded, but at what cost ?
Back together for lunch at Sandra's, running about with the babes in the garden - British (touch) Bulldog, Packed them off to bed late.

IssueZilla: New issues: Wed Aug 25 13:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-25T13:43:28+00:00

#i114102# - Chart: Performance on Print dialog: open time depends on printer dpi and document complexity
#i114101# - sc: Failure to save background image in xls files
#i114098# - sc: Need unlimited conditional formatting like in Excel
#i114095# - sw: Double quote followed by single quote
#i114099# - sw: Highlighted text hardly visible
#i114096# - sw: No blue line for page breaks in tables
#i114093# - sw: View boundaries in importing documents
#i114097# - sw: programmatically modifying the data of an embedded chart does not udate the chart's visual representation
#i114100# - tools: braindamaged temp file creation in utl::TempFile::TempFile
#i114094# - website: Being through of "File Issue"

IssueZilla: New issues: Wed Aug 25 03:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-25T03:43:11+00:00

#i114091# - Installation: Cannot restart after updating extensions
#i114092# - sw: Letter become small after 2nd save.
#i114090# - ucb: ucb configuration changes are broken

Michael Meeks: 2010-08-24: Tuesday.

2010-08-24T21:00:00+00:00

Up early, booked an appointment for J. with the local GP, mercifully 20 metres from the house. Off to visit The Forbidden Corner apparently (The strangest place in the world) - discovered on arriving that it doesn't open until nearly midday (oh). Spent some time wandering the pleasant grounds, getting mobbed by hungyr ducks, and admiring a flock of swifts flying fast and close between us as we walked to catch some sort of insect near the ground.
A snatch of lunch, and we set off to sample the strange-ness. And indeed, as advertised, it was really extremely unusual. a set of fine gardens, with an over-arching maze - some extraordinary follies, a labryinth of underground tunnels of unusual complexity, castle pieces, grotesque statues, and lots of IR controlled water sprays - everything a child could want, and more. Strangely E. was terrified by the relatively mild burping entrance gate, and not by some of the very tight underground spaces. M. sat out a lot of dark, underground twistiness with Grandma.
Eventually back home, rather late. Fish and Chips dinner, put the babes to bed, and chatted with the parents. Bed earlyish.

Cedric Bosdonnat: Word binary files dumper

2010-08-24T15:22:25+00:00

I have been away quite a long time for vacation: a one month trip around China with my wife. I wanted to write some blog post, but I still couldn’t find time for it… but I have something cooking here that is worth talking about. I have started to write a small command line tool showing the internals of .doc files. Thanks to apache POI and the file format specs, it currently outputs quite nicely the paragraphs and their runs as well as the field descriptors. This helps me a lot to understand what is going on in the OpenOffice.org WW8 import filter, but is currently not complete.

The sources are available under GPL v3 on this gitorious repository: http://gitorious.org/ww8dumper/ww8dumper, feel free to propose some patches to make is progress!

IssueZilla: New issues: Tue Aug 24 13:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-24T13:43:37+00:00

#i114087# - Formula editor: Math: Wrong .uno:InsertFormula Help ID
#i114083# - Installation: Wrong file properties for some executables
#i114079# - Presentation: Close master view and click used master page, crashes OOo
#i114080# - framework: Erorr in desktop::copy_recursive() (userinstall.cxx) when a directory should be copied which only contains a symlink
#i114081# - framework: Re-implement SID_MAIL_PREPAREEXPORT
#i114089# - framework: all charts in existing (spreadsheet) documents broken after programmatically creating a chart
#i114078# - l10n: Country code breaks values in extensions xcu file
#i114088# - l10n: Template site translation request for language el
#i114086# - sc: Copying table frm web pastes entire table to single cell.
#i114077# - sc: Insert - Link to External Data - HTML table corrupts in Calc
#i114082# - sw: Issue while editing text in kannada language
#i114085# - ucb: MacOS: SSL Warning dialog not centered on screen
#i114084# - www: abuse user bil65klo3

Katarina Machalkova: Iron Maiden: Aces High

2010-08-24T08:44:50+00:00

Yeah, it is really me jumping from the aircraft and falling down. My first thoughts after the jump weren't "Wow, this is fun", but "Geez, I've done it and I'm still alive".
Big thanks to Gejza and Bery (the two instructors accompanying me) - if it weren't for them, I would have never mustered courage to actually jump. Another big thanks to ACMik, Alenka and Danny - there's nothing like landing into the cheering crowd of your friends, especially when it's your first time :)

IssueZilla: New issues: Tue Aug 24 03:43:01 UTC 2010

2010-08-24T03:43:19+00:00

#i114074# - framework: Open office crashes on startup
#i114071# - framework: Unable to Save
#i114072# - sc: second calc document too long on opening
#i114073# - sw: Add a minimum schema level for the graphic option "first paragraph"
#i114076# - sw: Slashed strikethrough displays and prints double
#i114075# - ui: ooo_custom_images: BrOffice.org nolog splashs contain Oracle text

Michael Meeks: 2010-08-23: Monday.

2010-08-23T21:00:00+00:00

Up early, breakfast, off to Sandra's house; met up with the grandparents. Went swimming with all the family at some considerable length and with much amusement.
Lunch, then off to visit some caves nearby on the hills. Back for dinner, watched DVD with the babes for a bit, and then enjoyed Runaway Jury with the wife: excellent stuff.

Eric Bachard: Blog migration

2010-08-23T16:14:03+00:00

Blog migration in progress...

=> New blog
=> Feed

Thanks for your patience :-)

IssueZilla: New issues: Mon Aug 23 13:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-23T13:43:37+00:00

#i114065# - Presentation: "left to right" handout printing does not work
#i114066# - Presentation: Drag&Copy copies wrong slide
#i114068# - external: cppunit: undefined reference to `dlsym', `dlopen' and `dlclose'
#i114069# - framework: DejaVu fonts need updating
#i114064# - qa: [Automation] [dba_db_Addressbook.bas] not working on Mac osx
#i114058# - qa: [Automation] [f_window_functions.bas] script not running due to a basic error
#i114061# - sc: If Date in Functions DAYSINNONTH、DAYSINYEAR、ISLEAPYEAR、WEEKSINYEAR are more than 8, hangs OOo
#i114067# - sc: Insert a line in a big calc file take a long time
#i114070# - sw: "Before text" paragraph spacing is applied to both text, and graphics, if the graphic is left-aligned
#i114060# - sw: Custom page sizes should affect portrait/landscape settings in page setup
#i114062# - sw: General I/O error loading StarWriter DOS file
#i114059# - sw: downloaded latest version and now cannot open new or old files.
#i114063# - sw: selective printing of headers and footers

Gullfoss: New: OOo-DEV 3.3.x Developer Snapshot (build OOO330m5) available

2010-08-23T08:16:28+00:00

Developer Snapshot OOo-Dev OOO330m5 is available for download.

OOO330 is the development codeline for upcoming OOo 3.3.x releases.

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

Download:
http://download.openoffice.org/next

Release Notes:
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/OOO330m5_snapshot.html

MD5 checksums:
http://download.openoffice.org/next/md5sums/OOO330m5_md5sums.txt

IssueZilla: New issues: Mon Aug 23 03:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-23T03:43:28+00:00

#i114054# - Presentation: Allow multiple slides to be inserted at once
#i114050# - ca: Incorrect image numeration on Catalan Language Pack
#i114049# - extensions: Presentation minimizer 1.0.1 does not install on DEV330m5
#i114051# - framework: OS level - "select all" in dialog boxes
#i114055# - lingucomponent: Updated dictionary pack extension for sl
#i114053# - sc: Relative Conditional Format Formula converts to Absolute after save & reopen
#i114056# - sw: "Before text" paragraph spacing is applied to both text, and graphics, if the graphic is left-aligned
#i114057# - sw: Undo changes after saving a document
#i114052# - sw: undo doesn't change edits to literature index

Michael Meeks: 2010-08-22: Sunday.

2010-08-22T21:00:00+00:00

Lie in, breakfast, off to local CofE Church. Fine puzzle painting experience in creche; discovered our next door neighbour Sue there, and had her over for lunch.
Off to see Julia's Aunt Nickie, drove over some beautiful moors with the heather in bloom: lovely. Spent some time with her, admired the garden, tea & cake.
On to see M&D at Sandra's house, wandered the field next-door to see the sheep, and try to spy rabbits; back late - lots of tired babies to put to bed late.
Up late, finishing To End All Wars - a rather gripping true story of redemption in a Japanese prisoner of war camp building the Burma railroad.

IssueZilla: New issues: Sun Aug 22 13:43:01 UTC 2010

2010-08-22T13:43:29+00:00

#i114047# - Drawing: Connector - not selectable after the first connection
#i114044# - Drawing: Graphical styles - changed names are not saved
#i114046# - Drawing: saving drawing changes sizes of objects
#i114041# - framework: auto-recover falsely is overwriting newer documents
#i114039# - framework: getEmbeddedObject() call takes too long on formula
#i114040# - framework: password-to-open-document window keeps hiding
#i114048# - sc: can't print tables in Calc exept one table
#i114042# - sw: Conditional text not found
#i114043# - sw: Conditional text not spell-checked
#i114045# - sw: closing page peview returns to last saved cursor position instead of previewed page

IssueZilla: New issues: Sun Aug 22 03:43:01 UTC 2010

2010-08-22T03:43:22+00:00

#i114035# - sc: Automatic filter and Freeze panes
#i114034# - sc: Sort feature selects beyond my selection
#i114038# - sc: file does not display properly
#i114036# - sw: Specialized dictionary
#i114032# - sw: Spellcheck isn't working
#i114033# - www: My SSH key for working on http://he.openoffice.org/
#i114037# - zh: Conversion between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese

Michael Meeks: 2010-08-21: Saturday.

2010-08-21T21:00:00+00:00

Lie in, packed the house up into the car; set off north. Good, clear progress up the A1M, lunch at C ... onwards. Arrived at Pately Bridge early afternoon.
Discovered house still being cleaned out, unpacked the car, and managed to back it into the garage; 25.4mm spare at the back and 50.8mm at the front (Guiness Book of Records measurement-style).
Took the babes into the high street (20 metres away) to shop, and wandered across the bridge - admiring the extra floodable meadow next to the river, and the water-proof wall around it - with the unfeasibly high depth measuring device in the river.
Home, out again to buy bits, took the babes to the park, Grandma & Grandad arrived, played on swings and so on. Back for dinner, packed everyone to bed. Watched The Princess Bride until lateish: "When I was your age, Television was called 'Books'".

Andreu Correa Casablanca: Software libre en Windows

2010-08-21T17:12:38+00:00

A muchos no nos gusta trabajar sobre MS Windows por muchos y diversos motivos. Uno de los que acostumbran a tener más peso es que no es un sistema que no nos dé la suficiente libertad. Otros motivos son la falta de versatilidad, su shell, que no es demasiado potente.. (aunque lo han intentado subsanar con la Powershell), o, directamente, el mismo motivo que aducen los windowseros para no pasar a sistemas libres, que no estamos acostumbrados a sus programas (o nos parecen una grandísima boñiga).

Pero siempre podemos encontrar algo de esperanza. Hay gente que desarrolla software libre muy útil y que funciona sobre Windows. No solo nos ayudarán a pasar el mal rato cuando no tengamos más remedio que usarlo, sino que nos podrá servir para habituar a aquellos que queramos convencer para que abandonen Windows (sí, a veces el proselitismo es necesario, sobretodo si se es el pringado de turno que tiene que ir arreglando ordenadores con Windows por todas partes).

Aquí dejo mi lista del software libre para Windows que encuentro más útil,

Internet

Mozilla Firefox : Un gran navegador, y, todo hay que decirlo, parece funcionar mejor sobre Windows que sobre GNU/Linux. Tengo que añadir que la versión 4 será mítica en cuanto vea la luz del día.
Mozilla Thunderbird : A su vez, en su versión 3.1, resulta ser también un gran cliente de correo, y la experiencia puede mejorar notablemente si se combina con el plugin Lightning , actualmente en su versión 1 beta 2.

Oficina

OpenOffice ( aunque prefiero la versión de Novell, Go-OO ) : Una gran suite ofimática, mejorable sin duda, pero que está a la altura de las necesidades diarias y maneja por defecto el formato estándar ODF. Además nos permite trabajar también con los formatos de la suite ofimática de Microsoft y exportar nuestros documentos a PDF.
Mozilla Sunbird : Un buen programa para gestionar tus calendarios y horarios, se integra perfectamente con Google Calendars y también con Mozilla Thunderbird mediante el plugin Lightning que he mencionado anteriormente.

Utilidades varias

InfraRecorder : Muy útil para crear y quemar imágenes de CDs, así como hacer copias directas, o bién CDs con los archivos que quieras.
PeaZip : Para comprimir y descomprimir ficheros, tiene una interfaz muy agradable y simple.
7-Zip : Lo mismo que PeaZip, algo más versátil, pero su interfaz gráfica tiene una apariencia menos cuidada.
Ghostscript : No es nada que se vaya a usar en el día a día, pero sirve como pieza indispensable para integrarse con otras herramientas de la talla de Scribus. Es útil para tratar con Postscript y PDF.

P2P

Hay muchos más programas de los que pondré en esta sección, simplemente pongo mis preferidos.

eMule : Todo un clásico, nos permite acceder a multitud de películas, música, documentos varios, programas, etc. Todo a través de las redes ed2k y Kademlia, una con puntos centralizados y la otra totalmente descentralizada respectivamente. Nos permite aplicar ofuscación de protocolo.
Deluge : Mi cliente favorito para torrents, rápido, sencillo, y libre. Permite cifrar las conexiones y tiene un plugin semi-oficial que nos permite bloquear las ips de ciertas entidades que actúan a modo de “polis malos de internet”.

Multimedia

Como antes, solo mencionaré los que me gustan.

Songbird : Un completo reproductor de música, con multitud de plugins. Podrás escuchar música, radios online, leer las letras de las canciones mientras las escuchas, sincronizar tus gadgets, cambiar su aspecto…
VLC : Uno de los mejores reproductores de vídeo del momento. Se distribuye de forma que no hace falta instalar códecs adicionales. La última versión es capaz de aprovechar aceleración por hardware en algunas tarjetas gráficas, con lo que el equipo podrá funcionar de forma fluida mientras visualizas películas.
Miro : Un programa para visualizar vídeo a través de Internet, particularmente no lo uso mucho porque paso mucho tiempo programando, pero es un buen programa para chafardear y encontrar cosas nuevas fácilmente.
LMMS : Pensado originalmente para Linux, ahora es multiplataforma. Es una especie de estudio para edición musical muy pero que muy chulo, supongo que habrá cosas más perfeccionadas en el aspecto técnico dentro del mundo del software cerrado, pero qué le vamos a hacer, a mi me gusta tal y como es.

Edición gráfica

The Gimp : Cómo no, el programa de retoque fotográfico más conocido del mundo del software libre, y el predecesor del proyecto Gnome. Ahora mismo la última versión estable es la 2.6 , tiene algunos defectos importantes, en parte causantes de su baja adopción entre artistas gráficos. El primero es su falta de soporte para los perfiles de color CMYK (aunque se espera que probablemente se le dé soporte en la próxima versión 2.8), el segundo es su interfaz, conformada por diversas ventanas independientes… y que nos puede llegar a marear. El segundo problema ya se ha solucionado en las versiones de desarrollo, aunque no hay todavía ninguna versión para Windows con ese cambio.
Blender : El programa que antes de ser libre fue usado en la película de Terminator 2 para crear el efecto de metal fundido del robot malo de la película. Actualmente la última versión estable es la 2.49 , pero ya está disponible la beta 2.53 , que incluye muchísimos cambios en la interfaz, y otros detalles internos que soy incapaz de describir por desconocimiento, aunque suenan espectaculares.
Inkscape : Un programa de dibujo vectorial, le queda mucho trecho por delante para ser perfecto pero es sin duda muy bueno en lo que hace.
Scribus : Un programa de maquetación, tal como Quark Express… solo que con menos fondos para ser desarrollado, así que no podemos esperar tanto, pero no todos necesitamos características demasiado avanzadas. Para trabajar perfectamente con él es bueno instalar Ghostscript previamente.

Desarrollo de software

Netbeans : Un muy buen IDE , permite trabajar con Java, C/C++, PHP… (y algunos lenguajes más que no recuerdo). Se integra perfectamente con Mercurial, SVN y CVS. Nos permite refactorizar de forma muy cómoda el código, detecta errores automáticamente en tiempo de desarrollo, se puede integrar bién con entornos de Unit testing…
Mercurial: Un sistema de control de versiones descentralizado, crear y mezclar ramas es pan comido con éste gran sistema. Es parecido a Git (que también tiene implementaciones en Windows, pero más fácil de manejar, aunque no es tan veloz ni versátil, es más que suficiente). Necesita tener instalado Python en el sistema.
Python : Uno de mis lenguajes interpretados preferidos, la sintaxis es muy bonita y se puede mezclar código al estilo funcional con código imperativo. Si se instala en Windows es preferible instalar dos versiones simultáneamente, la de la rama 3 (que debe ir por la 3.1 ..), y la de la rama 2.5 (que debe ir por la 2.7), por cuestiones de compatibilidad, pues con la rama 3 rompieron compatibilidad hacia atrás para poder mejorar algunos aspectos del lenguaje.
MonoDevelop: Otro de mis IDEs preferidos, desgraciadamente, igual que Netbeans, está escrito en un lenguaje no nativo. Aunque éste en C# al contrario que Netbeans, que está escrito en Java. Aunque es un poco extraño requiere funcionar sobre la plataforma .Net y no sobre Mono (en el caso de Windows).
Qt Developer: Sin duda uno de los mejores IDEs que he visto nunca, todo perfectamete integrado, resaltado de sintaxis, detección de errores, editor de GUIs, integración con 4 o 5 sistemas de control de versiones (entre ellos Git y Mercurial). ¿La pega? Está especialmente diseñado para C/C++, pero sobretodo para C++ con Qt. Aun así, tengo que decir que trabajar con Qt es una gozada.
Notepad++ : Un editor de texto sumamente versátil, con resaltado de sintaxis para muchísimos lenguajes, con plugins para actuar a modo de visor hexadecimal, permite trabajar con multitud de codificaciones, y alternar entre los diversos modos de salto de línea existentes (UNIX, Windows… y creo que hay otro, que no recuerdo).

Administración web

FileZilla : ¿Quieres conectarte a un servidor FTP, SFTP o FTPS? Aquí tienes la solución.
WinSCP : Otra solución parecida a FileZilla, aunque añade el protocolo SCP.

Software científico

wxMaxima / Maxima : Un sistema de cálculo simbólico bastante completo, wxMaxima nos proporciona una interfaz gráfica para Maxima. Podremos trabajar con matrices, resolver ecuaciones diferenciales (o sistemas de ecuaciones diferenciales), cómo no, también lineales, cuadráticas, cúbicas y cuárticas, graficar resultados (en 2 o tres dimensiones), encontrar vectores y valores propios de aplicaciones lineales o matrices, calcular límites, integrar, diferenciar, etc.
Texmaker : En realidad no se trata de software científico, sino de creación de documentos con el lenguaje LaTeX (basado en TeX) , pero dado que es utilizado sobretodo por científicos y técnicos he decidido ponerlo aquí. Tiene una interfaz muy cuidada y bastante bien pensada, nos permite crear documentos desde diversas plantillas predefinidas, cuenta con multitud de símbolos accesibles por si no nos acordamos de sus respectivos códigos, nos permite previsualizar el documento, y obviamente generar el PDF correspondiente… Creo que es la mejor opción para trabajar con LaTeX sobre Windows.
Marble : Un programa para poder visualizar el globo terráqueo, no es científico propiamente dicho, pero sirve para obtener información sobre el mundo en el que vivimos… así que ¿por qué no ponerlo aquí? Actualmente la última versión disponible para Windows es la 0.8 , mientra que la última desarrollada es la 0.10, que ha incorporado muchísimas mejoras en las dos actualizaciones sucesivas desde la versión 0.8. Pero supongo que es normal que de vez en cuando haya desincronizaciones en las releases cuando estamos tratando con programas multiplataforma, y más cuando los recursos son escasos.

Bueno, aquí he puesto unos pocos, tampoco demasiados, de los programas libres existentes para Windows. Hay muy buenos recopilatorios, como cdlibre.org , aunque encuentro a faltar allí valoraciones sobre la calidad del software (ya sea en cuanto a calidad técnica, usabilidad o estética). Y sobre todo, esto debería considerarse como un paso intermedio si se quiere libertad de verdad, algo útil para habituar a los usuarios, para que no sufran con la transición.

IssueZilla: New issues: Sat Aug 21 13:43:01 UTC 2010

2010-08-21T13:43:06+00:00

#i114031# - sc: Paste Problem

IssueZilla: New issues: Sat Aug 21 03:43:01 UTC 2010

2010-08-21T03:43:42+00:00

#i114016# - Database access: Hot-keys for copy and paste do not work in database-table
#i114022# - Database access: Last images remained in database forms
#i114026# - Database access: Run Query shows list totally filled with result of first row
#i114018# - Installation: OOo 3.2.1 installer registers incorrect paths for xmergsync.dll.
#i114025# - gsl: OOO330_m5: WaE: vcl/source/gdi/gdimtf.cxx:
#i114019# - sc: Clicking on tab causes sheets to move up/status bar
#i114030# - sc: FACTDOUBLE() returns incorrect result
#i114027# - sc: Insert rows causes mis-registration of display, no new rows
#i114024# - sc: copy {only} comment clears destination cell
#i114020# - sc: wrong date calculation/display
#i114028# - sw: File>Export as PDF>selection gives weird result
#i114017# - sw: Heavy system-load on large doc. Editing not possible
#i114029# - sw: Problem with Spell Checker
#i114023# - sw: Spell check function does not work.
#i114021# - sw: focus can't be switched to second document

Michael Meeks: 2010-08-20: Friday.

2010-08-20T21:00:00+00:00

Poked mail, code reading. Amused to see SanDisk (a company whose products I rather like) doing the age old trick of creating a new market space to lead in: in this case seemingly a rather contrived space; tut tut.
Bought the Fluendo DVD player, goes against the grain, but it works nicely seemingly (at least for The Pricess Bride - and after all what more do you need ?).
Drove Thomas & Becky to the station.
Dinner, packed babes to bed & read stories. Back to work, fixed an Evolution crasher, dug at bootchart2 netlink oddness around error handling with Kay's hand-holding; seemingly MeeGo fooled me by dying at the first hurdle: on socket (PF_NETLINK, SOCK_DGRAM, 11); - pushed a clean fix to bootchart2. Some nice patches coming in from Riccardo Magliocchetti (xrmx) gave him git/push access.
Packed for the next weeks off on holiday, backed up the laptop, filled out Clarity for the future.

EIS: OOO330_m5 ready for use.

2010-08-20T13:55:31+00:00

OOO330_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 OOO330m5

Child Workspaces integrated:

automationooo330m3

This CWS only affects automated tests which have been run locally, so there are no entries in QUASTe.
Please clone for DEV300

automationooo330m4

automation CWS with latest fixes for both OOO330 and DEV300

fwk151

Showstoppers for OOo 3.3

graphite04

Solutions for graphite related OOo330-showstoppers

jl154

Extension manager and other showstopper issues

jl157

Showstopper issues

mav56

OOo 3.3 showstopper cws.

native324

OOo 3.3 installation tasks

ooo33gsl05

3.3 stoppers

txtl10n

support for help.tree files and text files (.xtx)
no office code touched

ooo330m5masterfix

IssueZilla: New issues: Fri Aug 20 13:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-20T13:43:34+00:00

#i114007# - Chart: Height of Chart Types free choose able
#i114012# - Drawing: sd: a11y crash because ctor chain calls back into object before ctor is complete
#i114006# - documentation: File > Save As (Save wih Password) misses context sensitive help
#i114004# - framework: Unknown New XLM Filter, Save as Package, crashes OOo
#i114008# - framework: [performance]: Reducing startup time for the first start
#i114009# - l10n: Mac OSX locales should be supported by OOo
#i114015# - sc: Wrong data import
#i114013# - sc: shortened links in Calc
#i114010# - sw: Entry Fields crushed in forms exported to PDF
#i114005# - sw: Last paragraph can not apply bullet or numbering when selecting "backwards"
#i114011# - sw: writerfilter: missing copyright headers
#i114014# - ucb: Login dialog: "Remember Password" check box value not always correct

IssueZilla: New issues: Fri Aug 20 03:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-20T03:43:36+00:00

#i113992# - Chart: Backup ChartModel object leaks when opening chart dialog
#i113991# - Database access: "Graphics" property of form controls does not display existing properties anymore
#i114002# - framework: extensions: missing copyright headers in plugin: "Source Code Control System - Header"
#i113994# - l10n: Slovak GSI file for 3.3.0
#i113996# - l10n: l10n: Punjabi Translation Updated for Openoffice.org 3.3
#i113995# - sc: Formulae results in .xls format spreadsheets saved as zero
#i113998# - sc: On opening format cells the application craches
#i114000# - sc: Type not viewable in cells
#i114001# - sc: UI Not updated during data entry
#i114003# - sc: trace dependents between different sheets, hangs Calc
#i113997# - sc: truncated spreadsheets with DATA/FILTER/STANDARD FILTER menu, on every Ooo version
#i113993# - sw: Brochure printing don't hamdle page orientation
#i113999# - sw: Header reverts to 'same left/right' on closing document

Michael Meeks: 2010-08-19: Thursday.

2010-08-19T21:00:00+00:00

Mail, news, Clarity, fluff. Lunch with Jill. Filed misc bugs with traces. Chased an Evo. bug for a while, some odd combination of threading, gdbus, glib signals taking a gstrv, and some unpleasant memory corruption.
Boggled at Intel buying McAffe - what a strange acquisition, attempted somehow to detect an underlying strategy ... there is clearly a missing piece somewhere.
Enjoyed Richard Fontana's Copyright Assignment slides from LinuxCon - particularly the conclusion slide which I reproduce:
- Formal contribution agreements are Bad:
  - No real legal advantages
  - Signals basic lack of legal confidence in FOSS
  - Negates social/technical advantages of FOSS
  - Ethical concerns
- More justifiable if assignee is nonprofit fiduciary
- Otherwise, best policies are informal, pure FOSS, documented
Dinner early, conference call late; awaited Tom & Becky who clearly were enjoying themselves too much in Cambridge.

IssueZilla: New issues: Thu Aug 19 13:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-19T13:44:07+00:00

#i113980# - Drawing: Position of the gradation shifts when printing.
#i113976# - Drawing: Size of the picture breaks when intersected by shape.
#i113975# - Installation: instset{oo}_native and missing localized files
#i113977# - Presentation: After check "keep ratio" checkbox, the width of Numbering was changed as same as height
#i113990# - extensions: presenter console does not work with multiple screens
#i113988# - framework: private:standardimage/* URLs not working as expected
#i113974# - l10n: Autonaming for slides is the same for Draw and Impress
#i113983# - l10n: Bengali (bn) translation for OpenOffice.org 3.3
#i113986# - l10n: Czech GSI for OOO330
#i113979# - porting: getUnloadingMutex() uses already destructed object during process exit
#i113978# - qa: [Automation][w_loadsave.bas]Test fails due to messagebox loading swdos.txt
#i113981# - sc: CSV file not opened properly
#i113982# - sc: Vlookup in a macro
#i113984# - sw: Missing characters when printing particular document
#i113987# - sw: Scrollbar jumps always to previous printers
#i113989# - tools: build.pl hang if the workdir is not inside a module
#i113985# - utilities: Wrong OOo minor version in solenv/inc/version.lst

IssueZilla: New issues: Thu Aug 19 03:43:00 UTC 2010

2010-08-19T03:43:31+00:00

#i113970# - Database access: OO Base 3.2.1 cannot connect with embedded DB it created -- says was created by newer version
#i113969# - Presentation: Impress animation timing repeat broken
#i113966# - Presentation: Impress detects5 screens when only 2 screens are present
#i113971# - api: No Icon for Base and Draw
#i113973# - framework: Click "Target in Document" in Hyperlink dialog, crashes OOo
#i113963# - l10n: Finnish (fi) translation sdf for 3.3
#i113968# - l10n: [SH] Serbian Latin Translation for 3.3.0
#i113967# - l10n: [SR] Serbian Cyrillic Translation for 3.3.0
#i113972# - sc: Data Pilot does not include empty cells in a Count
#i113964# - sw: Deleting an entry from index structure should be intuitive
#i113965# - tools: build.pl not always find the module root