Re: Bug#216952: openoffice.org-gnome: OpenOffice should have its own folder in the Gnome menu, just like KDE

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Badran
stems with gnome 2.4/kde 3.2 you wont need to do different things for the two environments anyway, they both pick up each others menus. Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ | Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID

Debian about and splash

2003-10-07 Thread Tom Badran
seriously started to use Impress to day, and ironically enough it really "Impressed" me (bad pun i know). Seriously it rocks, it almost makes we want to try Writer over LyX ;) Cheers to all the packagers ;) Thanks Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__

Re: memory consumption and processes

2003-06-16 Thread Tom Badran
On Monday 16 Jun 2003 14:25, Alex Tibbles wrote: > Please excuse me if this is off-topic - it is a query as to whether > observed behaviour is a bug (I could spot nothing similar in the buglist > bugs.debian.org/openoffice.org). > > Whenever I open OpenOffice.org (tested opening an .xls file, simpl

Re: Libfreetype

2003-06-06 Thread Tom Badran
(the font and printing stuff) as it sounds much better than the cruft left over from staroffice that OO still uses. Tom -- Tom Badran Imperial College pgpwm1TUsVSjF.pgp Description: signature

Libfreetype

2003-06-05 Thread Tom Badran
freetype? Thanks for the great work Tom -- Tom Badran Imperial College pgpvrwujPJFxv.pgp Description: signature

Re: Impress templates

2003-05-06 Thread Tom Badran
On Saturday 03 May 2003 6:35 pm, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > is anybody aware of templates for Impress? Somehow the PowerPoint > presentations look usually very good, because people start from nice > templates Ive had great success using power point templates in impress. Tom pgpvMUsGq

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 4:17 pm, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > > For some reason i had changed that line to "DICT en US en_GB" > > In the future, please tell people you have hacked and played around with > installing other dictionaries. That would have been a helpful piece of > information to

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 4:19 pm, you wrote: > > seems to suggest much better alternatives than openoffice's built in > > spellchecker. > > Specific examples please A bit tough there, its one of those 'general feeling' things and i just seem general

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
It is now fixed, i was missing the .aff file for en_GB Thanks for help guys. On a side note, it it possible to make openoffice use aspell rather than its built in one as kmail/kword using aspell seems to suggest much better alternatives than openoffice's built in spellchecker. Tom

Re: Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 3:45 pm, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: > Hi, > > No the problem is not upstream. Spellchecking works fine upstream. > So something about the debain installation is not correct (it seems to be > missing the affix information). > > Please check for the files en_US.aff and en_US.dic

Spellcheck Problem

2002-12-01 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ive had this problem for a while with the debian packages, but as it is still in the latest version (upgraded yesterday) i thought i would report it. The spell check (en_us or manually installed en_gb) is basically useless as it cant recognise any p

Re: Problem: OOo 1.0.1 not keeping setting upon restart

2002-08-09 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 Aug 2002 8:51 pm, Jerome Warnier wrote: > It seems my OOo 1.0.1 on i386 is not keeping locale settings upon restart. I am having the same problem here. I am however not using a debian pac

Dictionaries

2002-07-24 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, im trying to make a debian package for the en_gb dictionary. Could someone please send me a tarball of the source for one of the openoffice.org-l10n-* packages so i can do this. I cant seem to find the source package on the web Tom - -- Email:

Setup Defaults / nswrapper

2002-07-24 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The country/region in the setup seems to default to "United States of America", i think this should really default to nothing, like in mainstream openoffice. Also, the nswrapper defaults to using 'netscape'. As fewer and fewer users are using nets

Re: Font Problem

2002-07-24 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 Jul 2002 1:08 pm, Chris Halls wrote: > Nope, they disabled the patent stuff. That's why I started looking at it. > You can achieve the same affect by using the system library with > > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libfreetype.so openoffice > > b

Re: Font Problem

2002-07-24 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 Jul 2002 12:27 pm, Chris Halls wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:45:08AM +0100, Tom Badran wrote: > > Ahh, that does work, you could use 'Interface User' as well before, i > > forgot to try this way. It

Re: Font Problem

2002-07-24 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 Jul 2002 10:15 am, Chris Halls wrote: > > The last few versions of openoffice have had a small bug when using font > > replacement to change the 'Interface User' font. Basically, it doesnt > > work at all. > > It works for me on 1.0.1-1

Font Problem

2002-07-24 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The last few versions of openoffice have had a small bug when using font replacement to change the 'Interface User' font. Basically, it doesnt work at all. This is also present in the latest deb package (from today) although that version seems much

Binaries

2002-06-27 Thread Tom Badran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Are there "official" debian binaries available yet? Im sorry if this is well known but im new to debian (Mandrake convert) Thanks Tom -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE