I really turned annoyed by some posts in an RSS feed, because there were a lot of them and I usually never read them. I wanted to filter them out of the RSS feed automatically in Liferea. I found out that this RSS reader can use scripts to filter the …

I recently decided to learn chinese again. I took chinese lessons at the engineering school, but forgot almost everything! Hopefully I still have the lessons and I have found a cool on-line chinese course with audio samples on chinese-tools.com... but I needed some way to monitor my progresses in …

You may not know what the drawinglayer is and what it would bring to borders in Writer. This is a new framework for drawing stuffs on the screen in OpenOffice.org. It offers a nice and easy API to render complex shapes. When implementing the new engraved / embossed / inset / outset …

Yesterday evening we received the good news from Google: ooo-build will be a mentoring organization this year again. This year we will have the pleasure to share projects slots with ooo4kids, the new OpenOffice.org based Office suite for 7/12 years old children. I hope that we will have …

In the first round I have added the dotted and dashed border types. The challenging part of it was to draw the dashed lines everywhere in Calc, Writer and Impress / Draw. More informations can be found in the previous blog post. The second round aims at improving the interoperability with …

In the Go-oo team, we wanted to refactor some toolbar popups to tend to some general look. The following screenshots give a good idea of the differences between those popups.

Then I changed the popup windows by something looking more like the third of the above screenshots. For some popups …

Everything is in the title. You can download the 1.1.2 version containing the fix from the usual place on the OOo extensions website.

Many thanks for your patience and enjoy the new release.

As this has often heard people complaining about the lack of dotted and dashed line types in Calc and Writer, I have started to implement it (139 votes on i#8275). Kohei told me that these line types are heavily used by the Japanese administration in their forms. Even thought …

During the last days, I have started to rework the export wizard of OOEclipse. There are several reasons for this change:

• Getting rid of the package.properties file and replace it by the manifest.xml file.
• Better fit the Eclipse UI standards
• Propose the user to generate scripts to build …

A colleague of mine kindly opened me an access to one of his machines using the NX Client from nomachine.com. It works nicely, but I had some troubles to get Gnome speak something else that the default language of the machine (Czech). I tried various solutions including the definition …