Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: any word about 4.0.4 portable coming out?

Hi :)
I'm on an Xp machine (well on the Windows side of a dual-boot machine) and LO 4.0.3 has a tiny 
little green arrow on the far right at the top just under the minimise, window, close buttons.  
When i wave the mouse arrow over it a tool-tips yellow bubble appears telling me an update is 
available.  

Sadly when i click on that the magic doesn't happen.  It just opens a tab in Firefox taking me to 
the downloads page.  

Something else i find odd about the UI is that sometimes the "Save" button/icon looks like a 
floppy-disk (anyone else remember them?) and sometimes has a more modern, errr green arrow again.  
I was proudly boasting to someone that LO was so advanced that it was the 1st program to move away 
from using the floppy-disk icon and then he showed me it was still there.  Grrrr

Anyway, getting back on-topic it seems the protable version has been released at last.  Florian did 
his magic tricks and it's appeared.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: M Henri Day <mhenriday@gmail.com>
> To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> 
> Cc: Joel Madero <jmadero.dev@gmail.com>; Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>; 
> "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2013, 17:15
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: any word about 4.0.4 portable coming out?
>
>
> 2013/6/27 Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
>
> > Hi :)
> > Ok, that makes sense.  The problem now is to make the upgrade smoother so
> > it's easier to upgrade within a branch, eg from
> > 4.0.1 to
> > 4.0.2 and onwards.
> >
> > Preferably not completely automatic but easy enough so that users can
> > click on the upgrade button even if they don't have Super User / Admin
> > level privileges.  Like Firefox allows.
> >
> > At the moment i think people still have to download and do a fresh install
> > of the newer release even if it is in the same branch.
> >
> > I do get the impression that is what the devs are aiming for anyway.  The
> > little green arrow is fairly new.  At the moment it just lets you know
> > there is a new version to download but it looks like one day it will be
> > possible to just click on that and sit back to watch the magic.
> >
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
>
> Generally speaking, Tom, my experience is that one has to go to the
> LibreOffice website and download the latest and greatest step every time it
> is released ; it is rarely that I see an update notice and that little
> green arrow. The above holds true for Windows 7 and 8 ; on Linux Mint all I
> have to do is wait for the Ubuntu PPAs to get updated - it took perhaps a
> little more than a week after the 4.0.4.2 was released for it automatically
> to beinstalled over 4.0.3.3. Hitherto I'm ver impressed with it - it seems
> to load even more quickly than its predecessor. Kudos to the developers !...
>
> Henri
>
>
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Joel Madero <jmadero.dev@gmail.com>
> > > To: Virgil Arrington <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
> > > Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > > Sent: Thursday, 27 June 2013, 15:43
> > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: any word about 4.0.4 portable coming
> > out?
> > > On 06/26/2013 05:45 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > > > This question makes me wonder, just why there are so many LO versions
> > > > and frequent new releases. I can't keep up, and I find myself torn
> > > > about upgrading. I want the latest and greatest, but I've had problems
> > > > with newer versions resurrecting old bugs.
> > > >
> > > > I'm sure there's an overriding philosophy that has been adopted, but I
> > > > wonder if we might be better served with fewer new releases.
> > > >
> > > > Apache seems to have taken quite the opposite approach with no new
> > > > releases of AOO since its 3.4.1. Perhaps something somewhere between
> > > > the two extremes might be nice.
> > >
> > > One of our devs is going to do a bit about this after the EOL of 3.6 but
> > > this chart should help:
> > >
> > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/2/2c/LibOReleaseLifecycle.png
> > >
> > > also this might help a little,
> > >
> > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2002-June/msg00041.html
> > >
> > > There is a rationale behind our release schedule. Ultimately just
> > > because the version is out, doesn't mean users have to upgrade, each
> > > release has a purpose.
> > >
> > >
> > > Warm Regards,
> > > Joel
>
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