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Comment on opentype “locl” Localized Forms by Caolán

Caolán — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:27:22 +0000

LibreOffice will support them when someone writes the relatively small pieces of code, UI glue and flags to enagle them.

Comment on opentype “locl” Localized Forms by Uglyface200

Uglyface200 — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:56:16 +0000

There's been a lot of buzz here and here about support of other advanced OpenType features in LibreOffice (such as oldstyle/lining figures, stylistic sets/alternates, discretionary ligatures, true small caps, etc.). When will LibreOffice support such important features? OpenType is still a common techology in fonts and should be supported as much as possible. This would give LibO a big advantage over other word processors, Word 2010 only supports a few features.

Comment on Converting LibreOffice dialogs to .ui format, 100 conversions milestone by LibreOffice 4.0: The big changes will be under the hood | nano Geek

LibreOffice 4.0: The big changes will be under the hood | nano Geek — Sun, 19 May 2013 06:08:30 +0000

[...] tje API change, LibreOffice is moving to a new graphics stack. This is based on GtkBuilder, which builds interfaces from an XML user interface (UI) definition. [...]

Comment on Converting LibreOffice dialogs to .ui format, 200 conversions milestone by Caolán

Caolán — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:55:50 +0000

I added a screenshot of the Edit AutoText dialog, it’s not much different than the original though. On the other hand if you still don’t like it you can git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core and play around with glade and sw/swriter/ui/autotext.ui

Comment on opentype “locl” Localized Forms by Caolán

Caolán — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:35:47 +0000

you can’t switch on a string

Comment on Converting LibreOffice dialogs to .ui format, 200 conversions milestone by Aldi

Aldi — Thu, 02 May 2013 22:08:46 +0000

This sounds great! The second half is usually faster done than the first half

Would it be possible to add to the sample screenshots also the previously super-terrible “Edit”->”AutoText” dialog? Thanks!

Comment on opentype “locl” Localized Forms by dennis

dennis — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:09:24 +0000

Just crazy question: isn’t a “case-clause” better than these ~5000 if/else if ? XD

(more readability and likely faster!)

Comment on ooo blogger by OOo Extensions Project Hot Topics - Nuxeo Blogs at Nuxeo Blogs

OOo Extensions Project Hot Topics - Nuxeo Blogs at Nuxeo Blogs — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:32:19 +0000

[...] about extensions, one as to note the new Sun Java OOo Blogger. This reminds me Caolan’s work from last year. The same goal, done and freely available in pyUNO. It is freely available as a study case and use. [...]

Comment on Converting LibreOffice dialogs to .ui format, 100 conversions milestone by Caolán

Caolán — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:20:08 +0000

re "vertical/horizontal buttons". Yes, this is a rather odd situation. My rule of thumb is that the new dialogs stay the same as the old dialogs in terms or orientation on initial conversion. If they get re-worked then they can be reoriented with three clicks in glade. The examples in the wiki are rather old unfortunately, only the "title page" dialog is what you see in a daily. I like to think that the reality is better now than those screenshots, now that we're getting the hang of reusing the GNOME HIG guidelines. At the bottom of the widget layout wiki you can see the current outstanding candidates for review in terms of best spacing and positioning, etc. Super-dooper easy hack for anyone with 20 minutes to spare is to re-take screen shots of those dialogs with a master to show the contemporary layout. It's just a wiki, so no particular barriers to entry there. In the real world case, that being the point of the exercise, anyone can git checkout libreoffice and point glade at any given offending dialog and fix it up without suffering the impossibility of the previous dialog description mechanism. No office restart required, just change the dialog in glade, save and relaunch the dialog in LibreOffice to see your changes.

Comment on Converting LibreOffice dialogs to .ui format, 100 conversions milestone by Caolán

Caolán — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:02:17 +0000

re “how many exist”, a surprisingly hard question to answer. I’ve decided to pick 300 as the number for now, to be revisited when we hit 300