The OpenOffice.org and Go-oo hacking workshop has been run smoothly with some persons already in french community, but also some curious people. In this post, I would like to thank all of the attendees for their courage and patience. I hope to see them soon hacking OOo and try …
For those who wanted to start hacking OOo, I will organize a hacking workshop at LSM in Bordeaux (France) on July, 7th. All the details are on the LSM agenda. I hope to meet you there to practice what has already been started here. I also hope that this would …
I hope that you all had the time to get your favourite OOo flavour built before that post. We will now enter the real hacking part. In order to have some kind of example hack, I will use theissue #2838 about auto-correction replacements and caps. We will need the …
In a previous post I was mentioning a bug in the asian phonetic guide export to doc files. I finally fixed that one and discovered that this is corresponding to upstream issue #79246 (nearly 3 years old and 6 votes). The fix has been committed to the master branch of …
Here at Novell, most of us developers were enjoying the Hackweek #5 last week. I decided to continue improving the Evolution maps integration I started some times ago. Last week I added the following new features:
As I was tired of always using some custom C program using libgsf to dump each of the doc files I was studying before viewing it in Vim, I decided to add some Vim configuration for it to do it automatically. This post will explain how to do that.
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This is the first of the serie of posts to introduce OOo development. It will be all about getting ready to hack, which means getting the sources, installing the dependencies and building the sources. The commands here are provided for openSUSE 11.2: you will certainly need to adapt them …
For some times, I'm fixing some simple bugs in OpenOffice.org. I'm starting to think that, with some help, any C++ developer could dive into OOo's code to fix such bugs. This would help the project to go even faster and bring some more connections between the users and the …
The asian phonetic guide is a useful feature when learning an asian language. Last week I worked on writing it in the docx files. The feature is now happily sitting in the docx-fixes02.diff patch in the go-oo git repository. Here are some screenshots of the feature in Word and …
As I needed to perform some tests on Windows 7 and Office 2010 these days and I had two interesting surprises.
Here are two screenshots to …