Monday Oct 15, 2007

A Dead Parrot Learns to Fly

After an impromptu dead parrot sketch at the OOoCon ("the beamer works" - "no, it's dead" - "bah, it's not dead, it just needs a reboot"... (you might look forward to the still-missing video)), I had a rather rough ride with the proverbial last 10 percent of the browser functionality - I'm still not 100% happy with the representation in OOo's Calc, and the xcs schema parser leaves something to desire. But surely the thing is now ready for config hackers to play with it - grab your copy here:

09e22fc6d8d9f9bfd3dc7cf838ce6590 ooconfig.oxt

(for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about: OoConfig is a Python extension, providing a tool quite similar in spirit to Mozilla's about:config page - a way of tweaking the complete (even hidden) set of configuration items. See also the wiki for further information)

Comments:

Hi Thorsten,

It looks nice but crashes much too much. If I try to zoom in it crashes, if I select a sheet it crashes...

Any idea about that ?

Cheers,

Posted by pagalmes on October 16, 2007 at 07:57 AM CEST #

@pagalmes: wild guess - you're running Windows, right? Have to look into this, something very weird is going on there...
...on Unix, it runs like a charm, FWICT.

Posted by thorsten on October 16, 2007 at 08:26 AM CEST #

yes, I am running Windows.

Posted by pagalmes on October 16, 2007 at 01:35 PM CEST #

How do I start it after installation?
I didn't find a new menu entry somewhere...

Posted by Fritz on October 20, 2007 at 12:12 PM CEST #

@fritz: yeah, this is a bit clumsy (this time the OOo extension infrastructure) - the window you've run the extension manager from does _not_ show any update to the menu structure. Open a new window, and you'll find the config browser in the Tools->Add ons menu.

Posted by thorsten on October 21, 2007 at 12:51 AM CEST #

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