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Syndicated 2015-09-30 16:32:00 (Updated 2015-09-30 16:32:32) from Caolán McNamara

crash testing and coverity, conference report

Syndicated 2015-09-25 09:04:00 (Updated 2015-09-25 09:04:38) from Caolán McNamara

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Syndicated 2015-09-25 08:57:00 (Updated 2015-09-25 08:57:05) from Caolán McNamara

guadec 2015 porting LibreOffice to gtk3 slides

Presented our porting LibreOffice to GTK3 presentation at GUADEC yesterday. Here, as hybrid pdf, are those slides with a rough guide to our architecture there and current wayland progress.

It was pointed out after the presentation (by jrb), that our gtk3-themed spinbuttons had the up and down buttons in +,- order instead of the correct -,+ order. So that's fixed now.

Syndicated 2015-08-09 13:14:00 (Updated 2015-08-09 13:14:11) from Caolán McNamara

crash testing, 80000 documents, 0 export failures, 0 import failures

The last LibreOffice crashtesting run reports our goal of 0 import/export crash/asserts. This is on a refreshed up to date 80000 docuent corpus from various bugzillas and other sources.

Earlier runs had been over a static collection of 76000 documents, hopefully now we have zeroed the dials we can refresh the corpus far more frequently, perhaps on every run, and actively trawl for crasher documents.

Syndicated 2015-08-09 09:57:00 (Updated 2015-08-09 13:14:56) from Caolán McNamara

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

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...

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

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

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