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Some time ago, Novell released a new version of their odf-converter, that allows you to open OpenXML files (docx, xlsx, pptx) in OpenOffice 2.X.

I know that OO.o 2.3 opens docx files already, but this plugin gives better support to that “format” for does who need to open it.

I’ve created a .deb to install in Ubuntu, you can get it HERE (32bits)

*Updated package, I had uploaded the wrong one, sorry*

Hope it helps.

Finally emesene 1.0 is out!

Emesene is a very simple, light Instant Messenger for the Windows Messenger network.

Things that were left in this release:

• Audio
• Video
• Winks

Try it out, its my choice for the WLM network in Ubuntu

Screenshots: http://www.emesene.org/screenshots.html

Get it : Ubuntu | Windows | Source

Copying what was said in the dev mailing list of Winehq :

The 1.0 release of Wine is tenatively scheduled for he 15th anniversary of the project (roughly 1 June 2008, if you take Dan Dulitz’ message as the start of the project,
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux/msg/7f92abdf494ab8b3 )

Over the last six or so months, the wine developers have identified 180 or so bugs as possibly being worth fixing
before the 1.0 release.

63 of the Wine 1.0 bugs have already been fixed:
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?target_milestone=1.0.0&resolution=FIXED

101 are left to fix:
http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?target_milestone=1.0.0&resolution=—

We can’t fix all of these before the 1.0 release; we’ll have to leave some for later. If you want a say in which of these bugs get fixed sooner, please vote for your favorite bugs. To do this:

- sign into Bugzilla (you need to register, but that’s easy)
- pull up your favorite bug from the above list,
- click on the ‘Vote for this bug’ link on the bug.

Dan’s Mail

So, what about participatig in the wine project?

Installing the latest Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 in Ubuntu Gutsy is really simple and you just have to use Synaptic. Just enable the Backport repositorie and install Firefox 3 b3.

System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager

Settings - Repositories - Updates Tab

Enable “Unsuportted Updates (gutsy-backports)“, close, and press RELOAD

Now, just search for Firefox 3 and install it

You will still have Firefox 2 installed together with FF3

For Ubuntu users that would like to get a preview of the new Inkscape, here is a development snapshot of SVN HEAD, as of Jan 4th: Inkscape 0.46~svn20080104 for Gutsy, and Inkscape 0.46~svn20080104 for Hardy.

This snapshots were greated by bryce Thanks !

Lots of changes since the last Stable, one of them is Speed! for example, exporting to PNG is much more faster! and memory usage is better

Give it a test , and if you find bugs, why not help the project and submit them here.

Emesene is a platform independent MSN Messenger client written in Python+GTK and distributed under the GNU GPLv2 license. The main idea is to make a client similar to the official client but with a simpler GUI and a nice look.

I’ve created a package of the latest emesene SVN rev999 1000 for those who want it.

• Get it HERE

Official WebPage : http://emesene.org

Help the emesene project, submit your thoughts and bugs in the emesene trac

*Updated*

Just packed revision 1000 thats fixes some bugs like notify that were in r999. Version 1.0 of emesene is planned for revision 1024.

I’ve been using thunderbird for almost 3 years now (I think) and I recommend it to my friends.

It works great, I can setup multiple accounts with their own folders, easy configuration and personalization,.. I just like it.

But one thing that bottered me was the lack of capability for using multiple signatures and not just one per account. So today I add a thought ” Jezzz there has to be a extension for this, this is thunderbird..” and you know what? of course there is

Its “Signature Switch“, created by Achim.

“Signature Switch” offers removal (and re-insertion) of your signature with just one click of a button and easy access fro the toolbar. Supports HTML signatures and allows some useful configurations.

http://mozext.achimonline.de/signatureswitch_about.php

“Today the new Wine help and discussion forum at wine-forum.org went live, the forums are meant to be a meeting place for anyone interested in Wine usage or development. In the past there there has never been a single forum dedicated just to Wine. In the past the Wine project has used mailing lists, newsgroups and other methods for user discussion leaving many postings about Wine in other forums where Wine was always relegated as a sub-forum.”

So any questions to ask? just go to wine-forum.org , register and post

Src: http://wine-review.blogspot.com/

In the same subject “Wine” - Wine 0.9.48 has just been released, the wine repositories should be updated soon.

Está disponível o novo site do projecto OpenOffice.org da Comunidade Portuguesa. Ainda não está completo, mas deverá estar brevemente.

• http://pt.openoffice.org/

Agora com nova liderança, o projecto está a alterar a sua apresentação a comunidade e pretende disponibilizar mais rápidamente a localização do OpenOffice.org para Português.

Poderam encontrar no novo site várias informações sobre o OpenOffice.org, a comunidade e obter a última versão em PT.

Outro site nacional sobre o OOo é o http://www.look2oo.org/

Os meus parabens a nova equipa do OOo PT e boa sorte

Saw at Hugo Silva