Caolan McNamara

I successfully got the kcachegrind backend callgrind 0.9.8 (for valgrind 2.1.2) working with 1.9.50 working recently. There were two little problems in getting it going, soffice run under callgrind would crash out during startup which was because OOo finds out its own command line from /proc which picks up the callgrind line. The second is that without using –separate-threads=yes to callgrind it would appear as if no calltree output had been generated by callgrind.

A pair of hacky patches to sal and the soffice to get it running are available here

I played with soffice –env:INIFILENAME=… to workaround the first problem but apparently the commandline is used for more than just that purpose, so I just hacked sal instead.

Have nominated the gtk filepicker for gnome integration with gtk vcl-plugged OOo for 2.0: gtkfpicker1

Also nominated getfilesize1 which add osl_getFileSize as a mirror of osl_setFileSize which can be used to avoid the use of seeking to the end of a file and back to the current location as a means of determining filesize.

With luck I haven’t done anything particularly stupid that I can’t blame on someone else (fat chance). Ideally we could automate through tinderbox the building of community childworkspaces on various platforms before nomination, theres also something of a question over what should properly happen from a QA point of view with these workspaces.

nojava1 also builds and works for me fine, and looks like it could go for nomination as well now.

Pushed fedora abiword 2.0.10-2 with gnomedb/libgda integration, should be a complete abiword in FC3 now.

Meanwhile the list of announced new OOo 2.0 features implemented to date is an interesting resource.

At http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/gnomeprintui.bin I’ve uploaded a self extracting installer (not rpm) of OpenOffice.org 1.9m49 which I’ve hacked to use gnomeprintui for the print dialog, should work fine for
normal functionality and print to pdf/file. Still needs a bit more love but might be of interest.

C.

I wonder if aiksaurus can be used as OOo’s thesaurus as well…

darragh expressed interest in updating neon, thought I’d stick that here to turn the screws on him

Updated the ZyXEL howto for the USB 630-11 modem, the amedyn developers new release of the driver for this USB modem have done great work, much smoother install and run, all the messy hacking required has melted away. Seeing as this driver looks so good now, and is based on and is a superset of the speedtouch driver in the kernel, methinks it could and should move in there now. Now apparently handles Asus aam600ug, Digicom MichelAngelo USB A, Topcom Webracer 851, PROLiNK Hurricane 8000, Alcatel SpeedTouch USB and SpeedTouch 330

Played with pexpect, works very well. Much easier that other expect-alikes, sucessfully scripted myself out of a hole with it.

Also whacked together first version of our wedding site, I’m so geeky

evolution 1.5(.92) is great, took a long break from evo some time in the neolithic when it had a far busier interface that seemed to almost leave no room for the actual emails themselves, now it’s nice and unobtrusive, the compose widget works the way I like and allowing a custom command to connect to a server finally allows me to get my non-work acc into evo as well.

writer end of paragraph behaviour

If you are at the end of a paragraph in writer and press right arrow or end then this has a special meaning of “revert to underlying style”. i.e. if you have added hard attributes of bold/font/pitch to your text and press right arrow/end at an end of paragraph you’ll see that the various status indicators of those attributes toggle back to their original state and newly typed text is different from the previous text. This is a feature, and a nice one when you know of it to quickly switch back to the unmodified text.