[Open Office] 2.0.2 testing results

[Giuseppe Ghibò]

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:

> Hi,
> I've had a couple of testers give 2.0.2 a hard test today -- overall it went 
> pretty well, but they did find a couple of problems (some are probably gcj 
> related, some others might be local stuff).
> 
> 1. The "Wizards" stuff in oowriter's file menu doesn't work (gcj?)

Works for me with jdk 1.4.2_09. BTW, what is the procedure that
OOo does when seeking for Java in menu Tools/Options/Java? Because I've
seen that if OOo 2.0.2 i586/32bit is installed under a
x86-64 system where it's installed both java32 (e.g. the sun
jre) and java64 bits (e.g. the blackdown jre), it waits a lot
of time before recognizing a valid java.

> 2. The package splits are a bit odd in some cases. Shouldn't the
>    dictionaries go to the language packs instead of core?

IMHO this is a problem if doing that because one might still
want to hyphen or use dictionary for a language which is not installed.
For instance one might have installed the italian language pack
but wants to hyphenate or check dictionary of a french document in french.

Currently the dictionaries list is listed
<oooinst>/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst, and this file should be
upgraded for every dictionary|hyphenation pattern|thesaurus
added, so one have to play for instance with %post scripts or %triggers in case of dictionaries
into language pack files.

IMHO this should be changed at OOo source level, i.e. the dictionaries|hyphenation|etc.
should be taken either from <oooinst>/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst PLUS all the contents
of the files listed in <oooinst>/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst.d/*. This would be a lot
easier for point of view of adding and removing dictionary packages.

> 3. The included media player doesn't work. Picking a sound from the gallery
>    does nothing, opening it manually and trying to open any file results in
>    "The format of the selected file is not supported."

I didn't knew there was an internal media player. How to activate it?

> 4. I can't reproduce this one myself, but one tester (who generally isn't
>    a crackpot) reported the Gallery feature doesn't include any OpenClipart
>    stuff, even though it was built with OpenClipart enabled.
>    Strangely enough, deleting gengal.rdb fixed it for him?!
>    The same user mentioned it would be nice to add the system icons
>    (KDE/Gnome/...) to the Gallery -- sounds like a good idea to me too.

I see the openclipart gallery available to my installation.

> 5. On a default install, Evolution is listed as a standard data source
>    (even though it's not installed), but KDE AddressBook isn't.
>    (While at it, neither are Mozilla and Thunderbird - may make sense to
>    add those too).
>    I'm not very familiar with the way OOO's database access works;
>    does the attached fix (for the KDE AddressBook part) look right? If so,
>    what's the best way to add it, given it has to add a binary file (kab.odb)?

There is still one bug. If you go into menu:
Tools/Option/Internet/eMail and you click on the requester button (at
least under KDE), OOo crashes with error:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 
'com::sun::star::ucb::InteractiveNetworkGeneralException'

Bye
Giuseppe