Libre Office 3.4 for Natty

Libre office ppa updated for version 3.4 Natty.

Bit too late considering Oneric has it by default.

https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/ archive/ppa

 

Question: what if I haven't added the ppa you mentioned? I should not be offered the update, IMO. I'll check anyway. But, as you say, it's maybe quite pointless since we'll get it as part of 11.10.

 

The updated version is in the ppa Vasa, Ubuntu did have a recent update for Libre Office but that was a minor security one and version still remains 3.3

 

Correct. I got that one ~70 MB the other day.

What I'm trying to say is that I don't have the LibO ppa in my (other) software sources and so don't expect to be offered the update to 3.4 as long as I'm on Natty. When I move up to 11.10, I'll get 3.4 as part of the distro upgrade.

 

Yep for the update you need the ppa I listed in my OP, I am running it and so far no issues except slow start with files created by LO 3.3

 

I find that hard to understand. BTW, which files? Calc, Writer?

 

Writer and Impress, but LO 3.4 starts up faster and opens files it creates faster than its predecessor.

 

I use Calc most of the time.

Once you've saved a 3.3 file using LibO 3.4, do you still have any lag in reopening?

I'm sure you know this but there's ODF 1.1, 1.2, etc and 1.2 (extended) is recommended in 3.3. I will soon know what 3.4 has if all goes well

 

Forgot to ask this:
are you using the "Global Menu" extension?

I haven't yet tried it. The only extension I use is "Copy visible cells" (for Calc).

 

I still haven't figured out what the global menu extension does. Sadly Language Tool doesn't work with Open JDK, needs Sun Java.

 

That's the File, Edit, View, History, Tools, Help thing that appears on hover at the top leftish of the screen in 11.04 (Unity) for several programs.

 

According to the package description, "This package provides an extension which adds support for the Unity appmenu to Thunderbird|Firefox". Thus, not needed unless you're using Unity, IMHO.

 

I think I caused a bit of confusion here:
the extension is "lo-menubar" and it is meant "to send the menubar structure through DBusMenu."

 

They have two versions, one in the repos and one as extension, I installed the one in the repos, exactly what it does, I don't have the foggiet

I use Unity but after install of 3.4 LO, my menus disappeared with just ? in place of the icons. I just deleted and added icons from the Dash.

 

This link, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice, claims one can do a selective install of the LibreOffice component one wants.

Elsewhere, I got the impression that it's not worth the hassle and that one is better off going for the whole package.

 

Altered use of <CTRL>F in Writer

http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Altered-use-of-lt-CTRL-gt-F-in-Writer-td3449102.html