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It's impossible to rotate images directly in Writer. I have to open them in Draw first and export the Draw image into Writer. That just sucks. I want to import a picture and rotate it instantly. Please add this function to OO.o!

There is wizard on Evolution's first start, that forces users to enter all email details. There should be option to create basic account without email, because some people want to use just calendar and contact functionality.

TeX Live 2008 has been released and it would be great if it would be integrated with Ubuntu Linux soon.
One higlight is the TeX Live Manager that allows dynamic updates of packages over the internet, a feature missed for years and provided by the MiKTeX Distribution on Windows for many years already.

See:

TeX Live Homepage: http://tug.org/texlive/
Release notes: http://tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-7400010.2

ubuntu shouldn't go into stand by mode while printing!!

I am working a lot with office documents. On the basis OpenOffice provides the same functionality that MS office does. However, there is one thing that makes Office 2007 just a lot nicer to work with and to finalise a good and professional document quick with; intuitive colours everywhere.

Compare fore example the colours of Open office: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/images/2008/01/06/fc1.png

to the ones of office 2007:
http://img369.imageshack.us/my.php?image=office2007pw0.jpg
http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=table2007ny2.jpg

You can say I can choose any colour in OpenOffice as well, but I am not a designer who can match nice colours, it would take me a lot of effert and I just want to make an appealing document in which the numbers are just presented in a nice way.

I don't think it would take so much effort since it is just inserting a couple different colours and arrange them in a nice way. In the contrary to its little effort, it would make work for me so much more easy and productive.

When I print out a document (typically to a networked printer), a small applet icon appears in the gnome-panel indicating that printing is occurring. (If I double click on the icon, the printer-status window appears.)

I would like to be able to right click on the icon, and configure a preference so that every time the items in the printer-queue have been printed, a notification balloon pops up, informing me that the job is finished.

printing system should give more information while printing, such as pages left or the name of the document.

Hallo, this is my first entry, so I hope to make it right with my simple english...

My idea: set counting of lines and characters standardly on the bottom bar of the screen. Nowadays you must activate the line-counting every time you open a document and to count characters you must view the statistics and in the meantime you can not write.
This feature will be useful for writing newspapers or other official documents.

This is such a minor but handy thing, I'm surprised I cant find it in Evolution. If it's there already, then my idea is to make it easier to find :-)

Anyway the suggestion is to be able to copy or move an email to a new calendar entry. Maybe it's just me, but in my previous life (before Ubuntu-Evolution) I used to regularly copy emails for follow-up to calendar entries. And of course sometimes, they are actually meeting requests, but ones that have come from a user or system that doesn't know how to make a meeting request. Most of my meetings are with people external to my company, so this happens regularly.

UI would be right-click and select 'convert to calendar entry' (just like we already have 'convert to task') and/or just drag a message to the calendar switcher icon.

If it was really smart, it would also scan the message for suggested meeting details like Gmail seems to do.

In Evolution you have the following save actions short keys:
- "Ctrl + S" for saving as a file
- "Ctrl + Shift + S" for saving as a draft

I would swap this short keys:
- "Ctrl + S" (save) for saving as a draft
- "Ctrl + Shift + S" (save as) for saving as a file

For OpenOffice Writer, in recent files, only display the most recently accessed DOCUMENT files.

Likewise, for OpenOffice Calc, in recent files, only display
the most recently accessed SPREADSHEET files.

Currenly in either application, the most recently opened OpenOffice files are displayed. When one is using Calc, the recent document files are not relevant nor helpful. Likewise when one is using Writer.

Hope this is not a duplicate.

Groove is a P2P workgroup which relay shared files and private messages to other users. Any users could create workgroup, invite other users to his workgroup, share files through it, and set permission (read / write / modify) for other to use files in workgroup. And through the file sharing, no server is needed. It is like a Microsoft Workgroup across the internet.

The connection between machines are encrypted, and permission could be set anyway the user wants. NSA and US government prove it to be secure method to share files through internet. So file sharing can be really easy and secure with it.

However, Microsoft Office acquired Groove and merge it to Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007. I fear there will be no cross-platform support from it.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/groove/default.aspx

This software is really useful for any office. If we want to see mass adoption in business sector, we need an open one. Please help to advocate one.

The openoffice is a excelente suite of office, but the Developers will need improve your performance, some tools and the look and feels to improve the usability and productivity of users.

Exemple 1: Openoffice delay too much to open the first session and after this your performance is also slow (open files for exemple).

Exemple 2: Copy the rows and paste it how "insert rows copied", now we copy the rows, after this we need insert the same rows and then past de rows copied.

Exemple 3: Freeze,remember, record the last color used in the Font colors and Background color.

I used openoffice 3 beta 1 for 2 months but isn't good enough to users that work very quite with this suite.

Please, Help sun developers to improve openoffice.

Missing file support for mdf,odb in openoffice/ubuntu is not what I expected.previously we had openoffice database,which supported smaller database making and supported file formats like odb,mdf,mddb Microsoft access file formats, now I am bewildered how to use those files that are made in Access 2003/2007.even office 2007 file formats are not supported well until open office 3 ,like xlsx,docx,pptx,oodbx.Microsoft hasn’t removed Access from there suite of Office then why did open office remove it. I installed Ubuntu on friends pc and was amazed to see missing access file support ,he wanted to use those access files and make new database.there are some database software available for online ubuntu users but what about offline users. Tellico and kexi are great for kde users but I hate to miss database application in ubuntu please include in future.else include Kexi in default ubuntu installation

I don't imagine that it would be bloat to include "split" and "merge" options in the right-click menu for pdf files. PDF isn't going away anytime soon, and this would be an edge for Ubuntu. Someone has already done most of the work, all that's left is for it to be implemented into the default distro:

http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content/28160/How_to_combine_and_separate_pd f_files_on_Ubuntu

I think Openoffice Base have not many funktions and in the new version 3.0 hasnt changed anything (for base). I miss the funktion "Search & replace"

Well actually I think this is a bug, but apparently Evolution can't display multiple message recipients if they are separated by a semi-colon instead of a comma.

See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-exchange/+bug/257101

I don't know how the semi-colons get there (possibly something in Exchange), but the other mail clients I have tried manage to understand what the semi-colon means, so I reckon Evolution should as well.

Please vote for this - i really want to use Evo, but for me this is a showstopper.

My idea is to include Scribus on the install cd as the standard program for Publications in the Office programs group.

Hey,
I know it's a licensing issue or something, but I don't care. I'm a user and I need it to work properly. Either come up with an alternative to myspell if thats not going to work for en_CA, or sort something out with myspell.

Don't mean to sound harsh, just going from a desktop user's perspective. If I tried to get my dad to use Ubuntu and I told him he couldn't have a dictionary because of licensing concerns, he would laugh and ask me to reinstall Windows.

This idea differs from other dictionary related suggestions that I've seen but equally can incorporate those ideas.

It's more about creating a clean protocol that other programs can utilise with the aid of a plugin.

The dictionary server accesses the various dictionaries on the system, including user level dictionaries. It may also be allowed to access chosen sites such as Wiktionary (amongst others). If the word cannot be found locally, it may search for it on the Internet. Furthermore, if asked, the server can behave as a thesaurus and an encyclopaedia, again utilising free online sites.

Words can be added to local dictionaries via the server (including those retrieved). Perhaps an extended version with a suitable GUI tool could allow for online content creation with sites such as Wiktionary et al.

Local dictionaries should be exportable and importable and may even be shared between peers online, with some form of a validation or peer rating system.