ANNOUNCE: ooo-build-1.1.46



OpenOffice.org build:

        This package contains the Gnome integration work for
OpenOffice.org, and a much simplified build wrapper, making an OO.o
build / install possible for the common man.[1] It is a staging ground
for up-streaming patches to OO.o.

	Lots of great stuff in this release - particularly Dan getting involved
and merging up the large RedHat patch set, which is great.

Changes in this release:

	+ features
		+ UI fixes
			+ much improved OpenSymbol font (Jimmac)
			+ improved font mapping (Dan, Michael)
			+ more style navigator icons (Tigert)
			+ nicer looking ruler scaling (Michael)
			+ don't grey bullets as fields (Michael)
			+ prune some ugly symbols (Anil Bhatia)
		+ System bits
			+ new targets: RHFedora,RHTaroon,RHShrike (Dan)
			+ --with-installed-ooo-dirname (Dan)
			+ system libdb integration (Dan)
			+ faster help linkage (Dan)
			+ OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP (Michael, Philipp L, Chris)
			+ use OOO_MS_DEFAULTS env. var (Michael)
			+ use fork for 2.6 kernels (Ken Foskey, Rene)
		+ Red Hat specific patches (Dan, et. al)
			+ nautilus/VFS integration bits
			+ system neon fix
			+ libart cut/paste for old systems
			+ system freetype re-hash
	+ bug fixes
		+ critical
			+ parallel / build script fixes (Dan)
			+ svx lockup fix (Dan)
			+ impress I/O error fix (Martin, Christian L)
			+ help / language fallback issue (Chris)
		+ misc
			+ re-root - only scan CVS dirs (Michael)
			+ missing MySQL data source fix (Rene)
			+ uno asm fixes (Dan)
			+ svtools build deps fix (Michael)
			+ improved default font size (Chris)

Package available from:
       
http://ooo.ximian.com/packages/OOO_1_1_0/ooo-build-1.1.46.tar.gz

	To find out more and/or get involved in OOo hacking see
http://ooo.ximian.com/ and/or subscribe to our OO.o development
mailing list at:
        http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/openoffice.

[1] - assuming the common man has 4Gb+ of spare space and lots of 
      idle CPU time. 
-- 
 michael ximian com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot




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