LibreOffice 3.4 Packaging

Posted on: Wed 04 May 2011

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The next major LibreOffice version, 3.4, means some work for (Linux distribution, and other) packagers, as the build repo is now deprecated and packagers are suggested to use the bootstrap repo directly, which is a different build system.

On one hand, this is a nice cleanup - there is now a single configure script. OTOH this needs major rework of distro build scripts.

The interesting part here is that the official binary installers are not using the make DESTDIR=/some/path install method to install the compiled binaries, so it was discovered quite late that it wasn’t working properly. First Hanno and Petr worked on this, then I fixed a minor, but blocking glitch.

As a result 3.4 beta4 will be something packagers (even the ones not using the split build) can offer to distro users for testing without patching. Binaries for Frugalware users here (i686-only at the moment).

GSoC 2011 - Accepted

Posted on: Mon 25 April 2011

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http://code.google.com/images/GSoC2011_300x200.png

I just got the mail about my LibreOffice proposal got accepted to Google Summer of Code 2011. I’m looking forward to an exciting summer. :)

KVM vs Windows 2003

Posted on: Fri 01 April 2011

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A few days ago I wanted to try out Windows 2003 (to be used for a task at the university) in KVM, to be exact using libvirt. First I didn’t do any non-intuitive trick, but later it turned out what virtio should be enabled for the block devices or the whole machine will be slow as hell. For the records, here is what worked for me:

wget http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/images/bin/virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd
virt-install --name=vmiklos-w2003 --arch=x86_64 --vcpus=1 --ram=2048 \
        --os-type=windows --os-variant=win2k3 --connect=qemu:///system \
        --network network=default \
        --cdrom=/virt/vmiklos-w2003/en_windows_server_2003_with_sp1_enterprise.iso \
        --disk path=/virt/vmiklos-w2003/vmiklos-w2003.img,size=24,bus=virtio \
        --disk path=/virt/vmiklos-w2003/virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd,device=floppy \
        --accelerate --vnc --noautoconsole --keymap=us

When the installer asks if you have a special SCSI driver floppy, ask for it, then you can select the virtio driver.

Apply button to style edit dialog in Writer

Posted on: Mon 28 March 2011

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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D-pV0cucPL0/UYduyolR-AI/AAAAAAAACso/zL9Vd2IQgY0/s400/fdo32413.png

LibreOffice 3.4 will have a new feature, if you edit styles in Writer, then you can test your style changes without manually closing and opening the style edit dialog again.

Do you like this feature? There are still similar remaining dialogs to improve like this, send in a patch!

Menzak BME kornyeken

Posted on: Sun 27 March 2011

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Valamelyik heten sikerult 5 nap 5 helyen kajalni, lassuk a valasztekot:

Golmann menza: draga es szerintem kifejezetten visszataszito kajakat adnak itt ("nem tudod mit eszel"). Nem beszelve rola, hogy multkor az egyik tejbegrizuk utan hasmanest is sikerult osszeszedni. Azota kerulom.
Pizzaboy: talan egyetlen gyengeseguk, hogy a hazhozszallitasra vannak kitalalva, helyben sokszor nincs hely. Nincs messze, jo pizzakat csinalnak, olcsoak (tipikusan 1000 Ft alatt jol lehet lakni).
SZTAKI menza: olcso (450 Ft a menu), finom kajak vannak, hatranya, hogy csak magneskartyaval lehet bejonni, tehat tipikusan nem az utca emberenek van. (Nyilvan ezert engedhetik meg maguknak az arak alacsonyan tartasat.)
A Karman aljaban is van egy menza, ezt talan sokan nem ismerik. Neha kicsit lassuak, de turheto aron finomat adnak.
Vasarcsarnok/Skala: ez kicsit arrebb van, a 4-es villamos vegallomasanal. Az elfogyasztashoz kinalt kornyezet hagy kivannivalokat maga utan (leull melled egy csoves, stb), de a kaja finom es majdnem olyan olcso, mint a SZTAKI.

Tech talks

Posted on: Mon 21 March 2011

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First, I was recently recommended this systemd video, a record of Lennart’s presentation at linux.conf.au, I liked it.

Second, I just realised Junio (the maintainer of git) went Google last year, as he states this in a recent interview. OK, I don’t really follow closely git development anymore, but good to know he now works on this not only one day a week. :)

Finally, I just saw Michael’s FOSDEM talk. I was innocently just watching it, then was surprised to see my name here and there. ;)

Git @ Meetup

Posted on: Sun 27 February 2011

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Lesz Git eloadas a marcius 9-ei Meetupon, ha erdekel a tema, gyertek.

KDE 4.6 vs hibernate

Posted on: Sat 26 February 2011

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We recently merged KDE 4.6 in Frugalware -current and since now it uses upower, it catches the sleep button of my netbook. The problem is that it tried to suspend instead of hibernation - what I wanted.

The trick is easy, but not really obvious. First, I disabled suspend/hibernate in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.upower.policy so that I can play with this without actually hibernating/suspending the system.

Second, I went to System Settings → Input actions → Global, selected "KDE services" and there you can see Suspend and Hibernate as well. Go to Hibernate, and set a custom shortcut: it will ask if you want to remove the sleep button from Suspend - the answer is obviously yes.

Done!

Kalapmernok

Posted on: Fri 25 February 2011

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Red Certified Hat Engineer:

Ha valaki tenyleg elvegzett volna egy ilyen vizsgat, feltehetoen a vizsga nevet csak le tudna irni.

Russian characters in RTF export

Posted on: Thu 27 January 2011

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I got a report about two problems which got fixed in master now.

The first error is triggered, if you have special (in RTF terms, so for example { or }) characters in style names. The result was not so friendly when you opened such a document:

After applying the first fix, the document was imported but the original Тест text was replaced by something non-unicode:

The second fix addresses this, and now the result is the expected one: