impress save background image

Impress has a "Set Background Image" option in its slide context menu for a while. For 5.1 I've added a matching "Save Background Image" to save the current background image to file.

crash testing and coverity, conference report

Slides for this morning's Crash Testing and Coverity numbers presentation. Summary, all ok, numbers ~0. If I'm analysing this right, then the highest quality is achieved at the height of the holiday season.

vertical text columns preview

My small contribution to last night's LibreOffice conference hack-fest. In vertical text mode, the column view for pages now previews in the correct direction.

guadec 2015 porting LibreOffice to gtk3 slides

Presented our porting LibreOffice to GTK3 presentation at GUADEC yesterday. Here, as hybrid pdf, are those slides with a rough guide to our architecture there and current wayland progress.

It was pointed out after the presentation (by jrb), that our gtk3-themed spinbuttons had the up and down buttons in +,- order instead of the correct -,+ order. So that's fixed now.

crash testing, 80000 documents, 0 export failures, 0 import failures

The last LibreOffice crashtesting run reports our goal of 0 import/export crash/asserts. This is on a refreshed up to date 80000 docuent corpus from various bugzillas and other sources.

Earlier runs had been over a static collection of 76000 documents, hopefully now we have zeroed the dials we can refresh the corpus far more frequently, perhaps on every run, and actively trawl for crasher documents.

RHEL 6.7 upgrades LibreOffice from 4.0.4.2 to 4.2.8.2

The freshly announced RHEL 6.7 upgrades LibreOffice from 4.0.4.2 to 4.2.8.2. RHEL 7.2 will upgrade from 4.2.6.3 to 4.3.7.2. Fedora 23 will have 5.0.0 in it.

LibreOffice on wayland

Hacked LibreOffice a bit more today towards wayland support via the gtk3 vclplug. Good news is that it launches, displays and you can interact with it mostly as expected.

Under F22 with a gnome-on-wayland session, GDK_BACKEND=wayland ./soffice.bin gives me...

Which is encouraging as this morning I had no window contents at all. Downside is that I can't resize the window and the menubar is displayed behind the title bar. Maybe a client side decoration issue.