Freitag April 22, 2005

50,000 copies of OpenOffice.org being distributed
Great success for OpenOffice.org:

"On April 15th 2005 the IT Minister of the country dedicated OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 in Tamil to the Nation and brought it out as a CD. This CD will be distributed free to those who request for it.
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In the coming months the ministry plans to distribute about 3 million copies of this CD to Tamilians all over the world.

Already about 50,000 copies of CD have been produced and are being distributed."

The full message can be found here.
( Apr 22 2005, 04:14:29 PM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

Just switch! - Simple Add-on Management in StarOffice 8
Since the question came up on an OpenOffice.org mailing list I thought it would be good to mention the new package management tool in StarOffice 8. In the past there was only a command line tool called "pkgchk". The pkgchk tool still exists, but it is depreciated. The replacement for the pkgchk command line tool going forward will be the "unopkg" tool. The unopkg tool can be used in two ways, as a regular command line tool and as a GUI tool. "unopkg gui" brings up the same gui that can also be called from within StarOffice 8:



This is what the graphical front end looks like:



Today I will just deploy one of the sample add-on components that are part of the StarOffice 8 SDK:



The status bar shows the progress of the deployment ...



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Once the add-on component has been deployed successfully it shows up in the list:



After opening a new document the new add-on component is listed in the menu bar ...



... and brings up this little dialog when it is called.



This screenshot shows the menu structure of another add-on that I have deployed on my machine:



As you can see (or at least imagine from the screenshot) it is possible to build pretty powerful add-on components for StarOffice.
( Apr 22 2005, 03:39:29 PM CEST ) Permalink

German article about using templates in OpenOffice.org
Here is a German article about using (letter) templates in OpenOffice.org.
( Apr 22 2005, 07:36:35 AM CEST ) Permalink

OASIS Members to vote on OpenDocument XML Format
"OASIS organizational members are asked to vote on four specifications that have been submitted for consideration as OASIS Standards. The ebXML Registry Information Model (RIM) v3.0 and ebXML Registry Services and Protocols (RS) v3.0 offer a method for defining and managing interoperable registries and repositories. OpenDocument provides an XML-based file format specification for office applications."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 22 2005, 07:20:43 AM CEST ) Permalink

"REVIEW: New Opera Browser Fails at Basics"
"But when it comes to the basics, too many Web sites simply don‘t work as well with Opera when compared with rival browsers from Microsoft Corp. and the Mozilla Foundation."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 22 2005, 07:14:45 AM CEST ) Permalink

"Firefox Experiments With Keyboard Navigation"
"Experimental builds of Firefox Web browser are trying out a new keystroke navigation system for skipping through links on a page, the Mozilla Foundation said Tuesday."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 22 2005, 12:26:18 AM CEST ) Permalink

"OASIS Approves First International Dictionary for UBL"
"As with all UBL specifications, the IDD is freely available under terms of the OASIS copyright. Copies of the UBL 1.0 IDD are available in Excel and OpenOffice formats ..."
The full article can be found here.
( Apr 22 2005, 12:19:10 AM CEST ) Permalink