I just would like to welcome Jayanga who will work with me on developping the ooeclipse integration. Student at Moratuwa University (Sri Lanka), he will create a Calc Addin wizard as a school project. You can read his announcement on his blog:
Eclipse wizard for creating OpenOffice Calc Addings(project …
The next stable version of OOEclipse will contain a new project wizard to help you creating a new Java client application for OpenOffice.org. Here are a few screenshots of the wizard. For those who want to try it, you will soon be able to install the plugin from one …
Up to now, I wasn't creating a branch for each new version of ooeclipse. However, I had a bug report last Friday on a rarely used part of it. The problem came again: what to do in order to fix this version quickly without providing any of the unstable features …
Last week a user reported me that the 1.1.2 version (was in the dev update site at that time) was working for MacOS X. That was the last issue I was waiting to be validated in order to move the dev version to stable. There are no new …
Have you remarked that OOEclipse has a project entry on Ohloh.net? It provides some nice stats on the project like the ones you can see in the right column of this page. I also hope it to be a central place for news on the project. If you haven't …
I recently discovered two interesting Gnome projects: libchamplain and Geoclue. Libchamplain is a library to create and handle maps. Geoclue is a set of D-Bus services for positioning. As I wanted to try them, I started to write a small Evolution plugin showing a map with the positions of the …
Writing a blog article when facts are still too recent isn't always a good idea. When writing my previous post, I was quite upset with the fact that the automated tests and specifications blocked the integration of cbosdo01 CWS. I recognize that I have been too critic regarding Mathias and …
I heard many french people complaining that Writer isn't adding the hard spaces automatically before the double punctuation signs. When going through the list of Writer issues on bugzilla.novell.com, I found out that there was an issue filed on that topic n#278233. A quick search on IssueZilla …
You may remember that I have started my first CWS some times ago to upstream my docx import changes. I had to quickly rebase it to dev300-m56 as the 3.2 feature freeze is nearing and the QA of a CWS could take quite some time. After a hard time …
Collapsed paragraphs in words are the empty paragraphs that are hidden in nested tables. Those paragraphs are shown only when the cursor is inside them. When importing a Word document, OpenOffice.org Writer currently does some magic to remove these empty paragraphs in order to have a similar render to …