Re: [Libreoffice] EasyHack: Ruler/Notes toggling

Michael:

That all sounds do-able.  Half of Berkeley was without power today so I'll
give it a go tomorrow between classes.

Thanks for throwing something my way!

Robert

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@novell.com>wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 17:49 -0700, Robert Vaccaro wrote:
> > I'm new to hacking LibreOffice and would like to implement the Notes
> > (comments) toggling easyhack.  Before I begin working on it, is anyone
> > else currently working on this?  I don't want to duplicate effort.
> >  Also, is this easyhack still relevant from a UI perspective?
>
>         Yes, it is still relevant. And wrt. duplicating effort I see Cor
> has
> some mind-boggling plan to take a mutex on several un-disclosed fun easy
> hacks for Thursday; Jan - Cor - if you want to do this - please add a
> comment with a date next to the easy hack to avoid confusion (as the
> page suggests).
>
> > I plan to stick to simple easyhacks/simple bugs until I get a better
> > feel for how everything works.
>
>         So - it sucks to loose that; still - the good news is, that I have
> some
> rather easy things that need doing, that perhaps you could do
> instead ? :-)
>
>        The first is to move:
>
>        desktop/source/pagein/*
> into
>        desktop/unx/source
>
>        and clean that up - we don't need to make or install a 'pagein'
> binary
> I think after my re-work.
>
>        Another simple hack, that might help startup time for some would be
> to
> add some simple type detection for common file extensions per component
> to:
>
>        desktop/unx/source/args.c (args_parse)
>
>        it would be great if this could do some simple work on extensions;
> eg.
>
>        .odt / .fodt / doc / .docx should result in a @pagein-writer
> argument
> getting returned. etc. [ we only really need that for the common cases
> ].
>
>        This is one of the pieces that cannot be symlinked, so after
> running:
>
>        'build' in desktop/ (source LinuxIntelEnv.Set.sh first)
>
>        you'll need to do:
>
> cp -af unxlngi6.pro/bin/ooqstart /path/to/install/program/ooqstart.bin
>
>        And then to test the pagein you'll want to do:
>
>        strace -f -e file ./soffice /tmp/foo.doc 2>&1 | grep pagein
>
>        to see if it got the right pagein file :-)
>
>        How does that sound ? is that something do-able ? [no one else has
> it ;-].
>
>        Of course, if you're not interested it'd be great to add them to the
> easy hacks page.
>
>        Anyhow - really great to have you involved, and looking forward to
> seeing what you get up to :-) [ it is of course far cooler to have
> people interested in improving the UI IMHO etc. ;-]
>
>        Thanks !
>
>                Michael.
>
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