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23 Jul 2015 »

RHEL 6.7 upgrades LibreOffice from 4.0.4.2 to 4.2.8.2

The freshly announced RHEL 6.7 upgrades LibreOffice from 4.0.4.2 to 4.2.8.2. RHEL 7.2 will upgrade from 4.2.6.3 to 4.3.7.2. Fedora 23 will have 5.0.0 in it.

Syndicated 2015-07-23 09:37:00 (Updated 2015-07-23 09:37:50) from Caolán McNamara

17 Jul 2015 »

LibreOffice on wayland

Hacked LibreOffice a bit more today towards wayland support via the gtk3 vclplug. Good news is that it launches, displays and you can interact with it mostly as expected.

Under F22 with a gnome-on-wayland session, GDK_BACKEND=wayland ./soffice.bin gives me...

Which is encouraging as this morning I had no window contents at all. Downside is that I can't resize the window and the menubar is displayed behind the title bar. Maybe a client side decoration issue.

Syndicated 2015-07-17 14:17:00 (Updated 2015-07-17 14:17:43) from Caolán McNamara

10 Jul 2015 »

gtk auto-mnemonics support

Thanks to Simon Long over at raspberrypi, we now have auto-mnemonics support in LibreOffice under gtk3 and gtk2. So the underlines appear in dialogs when alt is pressed and disappear when released, while menus activated from the keyboard show underlines while those activated from the mouse don't. Gives a more native flavour to the UI. Only in 5.1 for the moment.

Syndicated 2015-07-10 08:16:00 (Updated 2015-07-10 08:16:59) from Caolán McNamara

5 Jul 2015 »

crash testing, 1 export failure, 0 import failures

I graphed our crashtesting improvement on importing documents a while back, and mentioned that while import failures had improved dramatically that the export figures weren't as shiny. But there's been some great progress there too, especially with the work mstahl has been putting in, so today the crashtesting has reported effectively three consecrative 0 import failures and with the first drop to 1 reported export failure (an assert) so I present the graph of export failure progress

And an updated import crashtesting graph.

This is on our corpus of 76000+ documents sucked down from various bugzillas and other sources.

Syndicated 2015-07-05 10:37:00 (Updated 2015-07-05 10:37:06) from Caolán McNamara

25 Jun 2015 »

Equalize Width/Height

In LibreOffice 5.1 I've added an equalize width/height pair of adjustments to the "shapes" submenu when multiple objects are selected. Equalize Width and Equalize Height which adjusts the width/height of the selected objects to the width/height of the last selected object.

So if you need to adjust the shapes of a bunch of little images and shapes. Adjust one, then select the lot, selecting the reference one last, and use these to update the rest of the sizes.

Syndicated 2015-06-25 13:55:00 (Updated 2015-06-25 13:55:34) from Caolán McNamara

23 Jun 2015 »

Impress Slide Design

Selecting multiple slides in normal view and using the slide design dialog will now affect all the selected slides as opposed to the single last selected slide in 5.1 onwards.

Syndicated 2015-06-23 16:12:00 (Updated 2015-06-23 16:12:44) from Caolán McNamara

19 Jun 2015 »

gtk3 clipboard support implemented

Our LibreOffice gtk2 vclplug inherits from our generic X11 vclplug and so in lots of places we just continued to use our historic X11 vclplug for various things, one big example being clipboard support.

To do the same with the gtk3 vclplug would work for the case where gtk3 is backed by X11, but not if backed by wayland. So we needed to implement cut and paste with the gtk3 apis.

X clipboard/selection/cut and paste is errr... "tricky", so it was a bit of a death march to drag myself to the keyboard to go about this. But it turns out the gtk clipboard apis are really good and its reasonably easy to get it up and running. So the LibreOffice gtk3 vclplug now has clipboard support.

Last major thing is to get gtk3 gstreamer integration working for video playback and then it's mopping up territory.

Syndicated 2015-06-19 08:33:00 (Updated 2015-06-19 08:33:22) from Caolán McNamara

8 Jun 2015 »

impress, format, character, font-effects, Capitals

Added All-Caps character effects to impress/draw (for 5-1 onwards).

Syndicated 2015-06-08 16:12:00 (Updated 2015-06-08 16:12:31) from Caolán McNamara

25 May 2015 »

impress, right click, insert image

Added "insert image" to right click context menu in impress.

Syndicated 2015-05-25 14:11:00 (Updated 2015-05-25 14:11:12) from Caolán McNamara

16 May 2015 »

crash testing, 1 import failure

moggi described here our crash testing infrastructure. Basically we have a document horde mostly populated through get-bugzilla-attachments-by-mimetype which downloads all the attachments from our bugzilla (and a whole bunch of other bugzillas) that are in formats which LibreOffice can open. We then import the lot of them with the above testing harness looking for crashes and aborts. A new report tends to appear every 1-3 days.

These documents are filed in bugzillas. In many cases they were filed specifically because they were causing some sort of trouble for someone, so there are a lot of hostile documents in there.

We currently have 76221 documents in the horde, the most recent run reports one, one single solitary failure (an assert in a .doc about invalid positioning of a cross-reference bookmark in a document with change-tracking enabled).

Here's a graph over time of our failure rate. Where failure is either a straight forward crash, or a triggered assert. The builds are dbgutil, extra-debugging, extra-checking, assert-enabled, exception-specification-enabled builds.

You get temporary local peaks every now and then when either a new assert is added or someone introduces a bug. We have two purposes here, immediate regression discovery and historic bug removal.

We also have export crash testing, where the numbers aren't as shiny yet, but are on an equivalent downward trend. More on that in a while when we figure out how to fix this final import stinker.

Syndicated 2015-05-16 20:01:00 (Updated 2015-05-16 20:01:34) from Caolán McNamara

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