Re: Bug#335793: openoffice.org-help-en: Please upgrade to v2.0

2005-10-26 Thread Matt Price
ought you guys were doing the ubuntu packages, too. m > -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNS

Bug#326091: openoffice.org2-writer: crash at opening a ms-word document without true java.

2005-09-01 Thread Matt Price
Jean-Michel wrote: Package: openoffice.org2-writer Version: 1.9.125+2.0beta2-1 Severity: grave Tags: experimental Justification: renders package unusable I try to open a ms-word document with both oofice2 and oowriter2. Both crashes at importing the document. The software say 2 lines on stderr

Re: Java and OpenOffice.org

2005-03-30 Thread Matt Price
sid=05/03/22/204244&tid=93 > Good article! just want to second that -- it's a very high calibre writing, thanks for your excellent reporting/advocacy. matt ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `-

Re: Problem installing unstable.

2005-03-15 Thread Matt Price
unstable openoffice.org openoffice.org-debian-files openoffice.org-bin Matt > > Regards, > David. > > -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -- if you'r

Re: Bug#284579: confirmed on xfce4

2005-02-01 Thread Matt Price
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:43:25PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: also wanted to report that on my system, neither downgrading cupsys nor downgrading openoffice.org has done the trick yet (will try a fullscale downgrading of all openoffice.org packages when I have a chance). Matt

Bug#284579: confirmed on xfce4

2005-02-01 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, Just want to confirm that I have this problem aswell, using openoffice.org1.1.3-4 and cupsys 1.1.23-*, under xfce4. Under kde and icewm I think the connection to cups is still functional -- but I can't be sure, as another bug renders all the menus unreadable when OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP isn't

building ooo

2004-12-16 Thread Matt Price
rules setting DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=jdkhome=/usr/lib/j3se/1.4/jre and running debuild ? just checking b4 I leave my ocmputer on its own for the holidays. thx, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -

Re: Dutch myspell package

2004-12-06 Thread Matt Price
> helps if the packager actually would use the packages. chris, is this simple to do? If so I will try to package a canadian dictionary. matt > > Chris > > ------ .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek

Bug#284487: openoffice.org-gtk-gnome: gtk-gnome file picker should be optional

2004-12-06 Thread Matt Price
indow System protocol client li ii openoffice.org-bin1.1.3-3OpenOffice.org office suite binary ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System client libraries m -- no debconf information -- .''`. M

Re: OOo dies... [solved, sorry!]

2004-12-02 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:25:36AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > connect(21, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(631), > sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16 gaah! I guess loopback was disabled! I found it, fixed it, all better now! sorry sorry sorry! m ps -- but why exactly d

Re: OOo dies...

2004-12-02 Thread Matt Price
learn that OOo checks the network before opening the file. It'd be great if I could actually make it *work*, though... (preferably before my job talk next Wednesday) Any suggestions? thanks, Matt On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:03:19PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > thanks

Re: ppc 1.1.3 packages won't uninstall

2004-12-02 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:28:50PM +, Chris Halls wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:31 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > now I have another question: will 1.1.3-3 for ppc migrate fully into > > unstable soon? > > Erm, it will be a day or two, sorry I messed up the so

Re: ppc 1.1.3 packages won't uninstall

2004-12-01 Thread Matt Price
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:50:37AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > Matt Price wrote: > > update_desktop_database: command not found > > er, guess this is a bug report with a fix... > > No. This is not the proper fix ;-) ah well. would have been about the fi

ppc 1.1.3 packages won't uninstall

2004-12-01 Thread Matt Price
found ... so I changed it to update-desktop-database as in other similar lines, now it works. er, guess this is a bug report with a fix... matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- ---

OOo dies...

2004-12-01 Thread Matt Price
thanks chris for your help. I will try it out tomorrow when I have my laptop back again (left it at work inadvertently). thx, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -

OOo dies noiselessly when loading files

2004-11-30 Thread Matt Price
s listed in it. So I'm worried there are some faulty settings somewhere that I still haven't removed properly. Anyway, I'd love to hear some suggestions on how to deal with this. thanks, matt ------ .''`. Matt Price :

Re: installing new upstream 680 pkgs?

2004-10-06 Thread Matt Price
Chris Halls wrote: Hi Matt, On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 03:08, Matt Price wrote: There was a recent thread on dev@installation.openoffice.org: From: Clemmitt M. Sigler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: dev@installation.openoffice.org To

Re: installing new upstream 680 pkgs?

2004-09-23 Thread Matt Price
Matt Price wrote: Hey folks, this is not exactly a debian-ooo question... I just downloaded the latest 680/1.9 snapshot (they promise great things re: macros & other languages) & I notice that, instead of a regular tarball, they have a group of RPM's. Anyone have suggestio

installing new upstream 680 pkgs?

2004-09-23 Thread Matt Price
Hey folks, this is not exactly a debian-ooo question... I just downloaded the latest 680/1.9 snapshot (they promise great things re: macros & other languages) & I notice that, instead of a regular tarball, they have a group of RPM's. Anyone have suggestions re: how to install this version w/

setting OOVERSION

2004-09-15 Thread Matt Price
g 1.1.2_debian" & adding a corresponding line to .sversionrc, but that didn't work. Any hints? thanks, matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- --

problem with basic on 1.1.2 on ppc

2004-09-15 Thread Matt Price
can do to help diagnose? matt -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- --

PyUNO?

2004-08-18 Thread Matt Price
Hey fo1lks, just wondering what you have planned for pyUNO implementatin. I am *so* looking forward to it!! Any hope of an upcoming release? And kind of timetable? thanks for these great packages, m -- .''`. Matt Price : :' :

Bug#241529: possible breakthrough?

2004-05-28 Thread Matt Price
OK, messed around a bit and did NOT solve the problem but can tell you this: -I made a new user "ootest" and ofund that she exhibited the same behaviour as my regular user: -no menus or dialog text visible form within xfce3, xfce4 or enlightenment -works fine in gnome 2.4 (I don't have kde workin

Bug#241529: same bug appears with xfce

2004-05-28 Thread Matt Price
Just fyi -- I fired up enlightenment and the bug persists in enlightenment as well. Please let me know if I can do anything to help you reproduce this -- send you some config file info, etc... I will continue testing... Matt On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:29:56PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: >

Re: problem with macro in OOo 1.1.1-3 on PPC

2004-05-27 Thread Matt Price
I can answer my own question here... On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:57:52PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > Hi folks, > > OOo is crashing on my Powerpc when I try to run a macro I am very fond > of -- MakeRecentFilesHoldMoreItems . the upstream version of 1.1.1 > does not crash. >

problem with macro in OOo 1.1.1-3 on PPC

2004-05-26 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, OOo is crashing on my Powerpc when I try to run a macro I am very fond of -- MakeRecentFilesHoldMoreItems . the upstream version of 1.1.1 does not crash. I've pasted in the macro code with a pointer to the lines that seem to cause the crash (diagnosed by the primitive method of comme

Re: openoffice.org menubar displaying errors

2004-05-19 Thread Matt Price
Hi Christian, This is bug # 241529 -- the openoffice team seems to be having some trouble reproducing it. workaround (for most people -- doesn't work for me in xfce!) is to start OOo with: OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=none oowriter see if it works! g'luck, m On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 09:57:27AM +0200,

Bug#241529: openoffice.org: Same error with KDE, OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP trick helps

2004-05-19 Thread Matt Price
Hi Eike, sorry to take a while responding, didn't see your message until now! Well, tried again, didn't work. but: just now installed gnome 2.4 and gave OOo a try, it seems to work under gnome even without the workaround! Still broken under xfce. gnome runs a bit slow for my tastes, but I wi

Bug#241529: same bug appears with xfce

2004-05-05 Thread Matt Price
Just wwondering if there's anything I cando to help you track down this bug -- I'd really like to go back to your improved debian version of OO! thanks, matt

openoffice menus unreadable in Sid

2004-04-29 Thread Matt Price
Hello everyone, Just upgraded to OOo 1.1.1 in Sid and the menus & dialog boxes are unreadable (letters appear as rectangular boxes). Everything else seems to work fine; I also have two upstream builds of OOo installed on this machine (1.1.1, for python pinding support, and build 680, for fun), an

Bug#241529: same bug appears with xfce

2004-04-28 Thread Matt Price
hey there, I find this bug reproduced on my sid system, running xfce4. The workaround suggested in a recent post (OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=none oowriter) does not work for me. Fortunately I also have the upstream version installed and that works fine. msttcorefonts is installed, though I haven't tried

using pyuno

2004-03-29 Thread Matt Price
ehllo there, do you guys have suggestions for debian users who wantt o use the PyUNO feature in openoffice? I know the feature isn't included with the standard debian installation, and that there are good reasons for that; but is there any suggested workaround? thanks, matt

font screwup --> crash on start

2003-12-31 Thread Matt Price
hi there, I've messed up my debian openoffice installation. Problem started this way: I installed OOo1.1 debs, and found that I'd lost some essential fonts, esp. charter (which I use bc I need to see onscreen if theitalics is working). Anyway, I read the README.Debian,saw about 'moving fonts to