Mac OS X port at Apple Expo 2007 (Paris)
Author : Ben Bois
ben at hooboo dot com Mac OS X porting projet is proud to announce it will be present at
Apple Expo Paris Like last year,
Frederic Vuillod, Manuel Naudin, Sophie Gautier and me will receive the visitors.
Other volunteers are expected, and I'll give more infos about the agenda soon if you want to meet us.
Skills needed:
- a very good OpenOffice.org software knowledge (including Mac OS X versions, both Aqua and X11 )
- a good knowledge about Mac OS X environment
If you are volunteer contact me directly: ericb at openoffice dot org
Libellés : aqua, events, fun
New Content Developer for the mac site
I suggested
Shaun McDonald, who revamped
the official Mac site to localize some parts.
My idea was to
improve the readability: the first and urgent need is localize some parts, providing a link with
Native Lang Community projects, (but not in english, because a lot of users don't understand -and will never- read english).
A big problem is, change something is not that easy: the current tools are not optimized, and the difficulty for the maintainer is multiplied.
Welcome to Raphael Bircher, a new
Content Developer for the Mac porting project, who kindly proposed the german localization.
If you are interested,
we need other volunteers for other locales.
Please contact Shaun Contact:
IRC:
server irc.freenode.net
channel: #ooo_macport
Mailing list: mac@porting.openoffice.org (subscribe is mandatory)
Mockup for 3.0 proposal
Disclaimer: what follows is
not what will be OpenOffice.org 3.0 logo, but just a proposal.
Some times ago,
Andreas Sohns, 19 years student in Bonn proposed a mockup for the future version of OpenOffice.org.
I found the mockup so promising and professionnal, that I decided to ask Andreas Sohns the authorization to show his work on my blog.
Of course, brushed metal is maybe not the theme Apple will use for the coming Mac OS X10.5 , aka "Leopard", but that's already more Mac'ish.
Other interesting piece is
the Splashscreen
The only bad thing I found, is we cannot use splashscreen with rounded corners, because we use .bmp (square images only ) , but maybe it's time to change for another image format ..
Links:
Andreas Sohns website complete archive proposed on dev@marketing mailing list
configure...
configure with cabalistic command line looks really prehistoric ...
Just a dream: see OpenOffice.org use a toy like "make menuconfig", ( like for Linux Kernel configuration).
Return to autoconf syntax and co...
Mac OS X port at OOoCon2007
Mac OS X porting project will be well represented at OOoCon2007 (see the Agenda below) !!
If you want to join us, Pavel prepared a page on the wiki:
Mac porters specials. Feel free to add you, suggest ideas ..etc.
Any contribution is welcome !!
Mac OS X events in the Agenda Wednesday 12:00 - 12:45 :
Hot news from Mac OS X port (Eric Bachard)
(For all publics)
A new development version of the Aqua port of OpenOffice.org - no more X11, Aqua Look, ... etc - will be presented in runtime.
18:15 - 19:00 Aqua : the Light. ( Herbert Duerr / Eric Bachard )
(Development topic)
Developers will present the new port: technical changes, work in progress, difficulties, interested for the main project and more
Thursday 17:00 - 19:00 Debugging OOo Mac OS X with gdb, emacs and xcode (Michael Sicotte )
(Development topic)
Note: other ports can attend, because gdb and emacs are universaly used
Friday8:00 - 8:45 Buildbot: Bigger, Better, Buildier ( Mike Leib, Shaun McDonald).
(Development topic)
Buildbot system will be presented. Does concern all ports too
Complete OOoCon2007 programIMPORTANT: to attend OOoCon2007, and help for the organization, dont forget to
register ( it's free )
Top 5 of issues before "Barcelona" version
aquavclcarbonfixes cws has been created to fix 5 important issues we had with Carbon version. If we can integrate the fixes in time, we'll provide a new alpha during
OOoCon2007 .
See the excellent page about
Top 5 Shaun prepared on our main site.
BTW: If you are hiring, Shaun needs a job. Please contact him directly
(see Shaun's blog for more infos)Mac OS X porting project needs help:
- developers with C++ and Cocoa skills;
- builders: people building OpenOffice.org to verify everything is ok HELPS;
- contributors: they are a lot of things to do, like translate the current mac porting page into several locales;
- donations: we need hardware, money to help us for travels ( and attend important events for development, and visibility.
If you are interested, please join us on IRC:
server: irc.freenode.net
channel: #ooo_macport
Reminder:
we have IRC meeting TODAY
... Gorm ( .nib , part 2 )
Glad to have seen Robert Dargaud ( alias Bob) at home today afternoon. Bob suddenly disappeared the 28th november 2005 in the snow, when we came back from HH. I now have proofs he was not completely lost :)
Of course, we discussed a lot about the Aqua port, but not only.
The other very interesting point of discussion was about
Renaissance I already presented and
Gorm**.
Looks like we have tools to create correct ( but hell) ".nibs" using that.
Imagine, we parse some resource files, and transform them into .xml files. Then, we transform the .xml files into .nibs.
... I'm sure we can do something with that.
**I'd like to thank mm_w for his mail about Gorm too ;-)
Libellés : aqua, cocoa, development
Cocoa migration, GNUStep Renaissance project and .nibs
The weather is awfull today, and instead doing nothing .. work a bit for Cocoa migration cannot be bad ;)
.nib is hell: in a strange directory, you keep what is needed to start your application. The problem is you must use Interface Builder to create them.
For a lot of reasons, we ( Mac porters) prefer not, and find another solution -preferably Open source- instead would be great: this is hell for an open source project to use such closed things.
After some times of research (it's raining outside), I found something who could probably help :
Just investigating, maybe Renaissance, from GnuStep project can help you to replace .nib ?
Renaissance project URL Interested to join us ?
Mac OS X porting project needs Cocoa developers and Mac OS X experts: any help is very welcome !!
Contact: IRC, server irc.freenode.net #ooo_macport
