[Live-demo] geopublisher sucking in openoffice? & missing project descriptions

[Alex Mandel]

SAIG - Listas wrote:
> Cameron Shorter escribió:
>> On 2/02/2010 6:06 PM, Stefan Krüger wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Am Montag 01 Februar 2010 20:57:07 schrieb Alex Mandel:
>>>  
>>>> Hamish wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>> Stefan Krüger wrote:
>>>>>      
>>>>>> Sorry for the troubles.. I can add
>>>>>> "--no-install-recommends" to my apt-get install script any
>>>>>> minute.
>>>>>>          
>>>>> more generally we should add:
>>>>>
>>>>> APT::Install-Recommends "false";
>>>>> APT::Install-Suggests "false";
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> somewhere in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
>>>>>
>>>>> rather than asking packagers to have to do that.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hamish
>>>>>        
>>>> I should have mentioned, Ubuntu has changed it policy and now installs
>>>> Recommends by default. I'm a little torn on this particular one, since
>>>> Open Office is a useful tool when dealing with dbf files. I'm not sure
>>>> if gnumeric handles them as well.
>>>>      
>>> Sadly gnumeric can only open .dbf, but not save .dbf.
>>>
>>>    
>>
>> Much as I would love to have Open Office on the LiveDVD, I think we
>> need to remember why we moved to Xubuntu over Ubuntu in the first place.
>> Effectively we want an image that uses less RAM, but also is smaller,
>> easier to download and hence more likely to be downloaded.
>> So unless one of the GIS applications need Open Office exclusively to
>> work effectively, I suggest we don't include it.
>>
> Hi to all.
> 
> One of the key new features for Kosmo Desktop 2.0 is its avanced
> printing module that uses OpenOffice as target. Another problem is that
> it's required the offfical OpenOffice distribution, because we have
> noticed that the custom OpenOffice packages for some distributions (like
> Ubuntu, for example) removes some files that must exist so this
> extension could work.
> 
> Regards,
> 

The Ubuntu variant I believe is http://go-oo.org/ , I find it odd that
it's missing anything since it should only be adding features. FYI the
only reason this variant exists is because Sun refused to accept some
patches and licensing.

It is entirely possible that Debian or Ubuntu has modified their package
though to leave out something, for whatever reason. You might want to
look into working with either variant (though I'm confused why you would
print to OOo, maybe a screenshot would make sense, I always just make
pdfs or pngs and embed them in documents)

In either case if OOo on Ubuntu doesn't work with Kosmo right now then
it makes sense to leave it off. In the future we should consider at
least a partial install with the Spreadsheet component since dbf editing
is a fairly day to day issue when dealing with GIS. (Case: today R
refused to import a shp because of an accented character in a column
name, Solution open the dbf in openoffice, fix and save)

Alex