I just published the source code of Cydin in github. Cydin is an add-in repository for applications based on Mono.Addins. The latest version is currently running the MonoDevelop add-in repo. I have many ideas to keep improving Cydin. Here are a few:

We are going to switch from the OpenOffice.org to the LibreOffice code base on openSUSE.

I’m happy to announce LibreOffice 3.3 beta2 packages for openSUSE. They are available in the Build Service LibreOffice:Unstable project. They are based on the libreoffice-3.2.99.2 release. Please, look for more details about the openSUSE LibreOffice build on the wiki page.

The packages are beta versions and might include even serious bugs. Therefore they are not intended for data-critical usage. A good practice is to archive any important data before an use, …

As usual, we kindly ask any interested beta testers to try the package and report bugs.

Known bugs

• only the LibreOffice branding package is available; you need to replace OpenOffice_org-branding-openSUSE with libreoffice-branding-upstream
• shell wrappers are still ooffice, oowriter, …; we need to discuss the new wrapper names with other distros first
• application stops immediately when you start it for the first time; just start it once again
• extensions are not registered after the update from OpenOffice_org-* packages; a workaround is to reinstall the packages once again; We plan to remove the registration during installation; it will allow users to disable the extensions by themselves
• some packages were not renamed, .e.g. OpenOffice_org-thesaurus, …; they are not built from the main LO sources; we will do it later
• user configuration is stored into ~/.libreoffice/3-suse; we might try to share the directory ~/.libreoffice/3 after we fix the incompatible BerkleyDB; Well, we are not sure if it is enough and it is a good idea, so it will need some more testing
• packages can’t be installed in parallel with the generic LibreOffice linux packages; the problem is that both builds use the libreoffice-ure package name; it will be solved in beta3; a workaround is to install the package using “rpm -i” instead of “rpm -U”
• GNOME quickstarter is started by default; you might disable it in Tools/Options/OpenOffice.org/Memory/Enable systray Quickstarter
• SLED10 build is not available; need more love

More known bugs

• Free Desktop bugzilla
• Novell bugzilla
• OOo issuezilla

Other information and plans:

These are the first packages with new name. Please, be patient if they are not perfect. Please report unknown bugs.

The new packages automatically remove the obsolete openSUSE OpenOffice_org packages. It still will be possible to intall the plain OpenOffice.org packages in parallel, though.

Next week is openSUSE Conference week! I'm using both my openSUSE and KDE blogs to remind everyone that we're having a pre-conference meetup at 6pm for the KDE team before the real conference begins at Barfüßer in the Nuernberg old town. Remember a morning of keynotes is only fun if you have a thumping hangover from microbrewed beer (and if you're a keynote speaker, from local schapps too)! If you are attending the conference or if you are just a friend of KDE in the area, please join in.

If you add your name to the wiki I'll have an idea how big a table we need, I've provisionally got space for 20.

Will

Hi folks,

this post is just request for all obs-packagers. Please, don’t forget write some documentation about your projects (which you maintain or develop). I mean, documentation for developers. This make more easy to understand logic of program, connection between some modules inside or interfaces between widget/applet and “system/hardware part”. For sure, comments in source code (or in changelog) help, but some times they give not so much clarity.

This is not so complicated to write one-two pages about project, which you hack. This also can save time of new developers. They will not ask you about architecture of project, and that will save your time too

I don’t know how will be better to do it: use wiki (create a new page) or add just text-file in source project. Anyway it’s not so important where will be this documentation, main things that this documentation will be exist

I unfortunately received an e-mail just now from the Linux Foundation with regards to our precious Smeegol, and it appears on the face of it that they’re not that impressed with our efforts. Somewhat bizarrely as they have had plenty of opportunity to respond. Now I’m not going to start ranting and raving about injustice etc, what I will say is this and it is a bit of a rant ;-) :

Since Lucas passed Zenity to me and Arx Cruz we worked to fix some issues/bugs and add new features.
You can see some of the action on bugzilla or on git. Here we carefully select and thought about bugs and enhancements so we won't break Zenity compatibility with older versions delivering users the same usability and don't break scripts.


For GNOME 2.32 we set a new dialog to give the user the possibility to insert a Password...



or a Username and Password dialog.



So now the goals for GNOME 3.0 is to include a few more features contributed by some Zenity users and port some of the parts to GNOME 3.0 and GTK+- 3.0.

Enjoy and join the fun...

As many of you know and have generously donated, Bryen was robbed while traveling through Spain recently. We have now closed the pledge as we exceeded our goal. I have now transfered all of the funds to Bryen and he is planning on donating the rest to the GNOME A11y cause. Something that is close to him.

So, a huge thanks to all.

A picture says more than 1000 words

I was just having fun with that..

Those changes are in git only repo, not tarball has been released yet, so if you want to test it you’ll not find it on the usual X11:lxde repo.

But don’t worry, i packaged it.. add X11:lxde:Test repo and upgrade libfm and pcmanfm from there..

As the openSUSE tradition:

Have a lot of fun…

So after many months of hard work, Smeegol is out the door. Now contrary to what some folk may think, this was *NOT* a one man show – far from it! I may have spearheaded the whole affair, but I in no way can take credit for it all – that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t accept any of your fine donations ;-) I’d like to take this opportunity to thank many of the people that helped get this labour of love out the door.

Many of you that follow my blog probably know Bryen, also known by suseROCKS.  He is someone that has dedicated a significant amount of his time and effort throughout his life to spread awareness about accessibility.  This month he is traveling in Europe to help further this effort.  Unfortunately, while he was in Spain he was robbed.  There are several of us that have thought about trying to raise some money to replace these items.

So, if you’d like to join us and show your appreciation for all that Bryen has done we ask that you donate what you can at this link: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/13645