[libreoffice-users] Re: Why is Impress screwed up with EVERY release?

Hi Thorsten,

thanks a lot for your quick and helpful reply.

> this seems to be https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59629,
> which is on our radar already.

I'll take a look as soon as I have some time.

>  > - Instead of graphics that have been on slides for years suddenly
> only an
>  > "OLE" placeholder icon appears.
>  >
> Not aware of a bug report yet for that wrt. 4.0 - would you be willing
> to file a bug report with an example document at
> https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/ please? It could be specific
> to some kind of documents.

Sure, as soon as I find a bit of time, I'll try to cut my ODP down to 
the essentials and submit it.

>  > Honestly, how does this happen? If nobody is working on Impress to even
>  > check these absolutely basic things, be honest enough about it and
> drop it
>  > from LO. But constantly, with every release, breaking things that worked
>  > fine is plain ridiculous.
>  >
> There is a quite a range of possibilities here - QA volunteers
> focusing more on other applications, platform specific problems,
> document-specific bugs etc etc. The best advice to give at this point
> probably is: get involved with our QA team! E.g. it could be you
> running a handful of regression tests, on your platform, with your
> files, prior to releases.

I knew I had that coming, fair enough :-). I might be able to do that, 
provided that an alpha or beta version doesn't conflict with an 
installed older version, because I really *do* need that to work :-), 
and the number of tests are well-defined.

> Head to https://www.libreoffice.org/get-involved/qa-testers/ if you
> are interested!

OK, I'll take a look.

All the best,

Stephan





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