New features in 6.1.0 Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Text for "New Features" page for translation, after LO 6.1 release

Tom_Davies1 · August 8, 2018, 11:45am

Hi
Mike Saunders and the rest of the marketing team (and translators) have
made a video showing the new features in LibreOffice 6.1.0.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvoCpnwGNFU

I think some of the new features are things that have been asked about
quite recently- and might mean we have better answers for those questions
now.

Be wary though !! This is the .0 release and it's only just been
releasedtoday so this is THE point at which the most unexpected and
unlikely breakages of functionality may occur ! It is also the BEST time
to try out he new version AWAY from your regular install preferably on a
system you don't rely on for work or in a sandboxed area (Gnu&Linux has
MANY different ways of creating safe-areas to try things out in).

It is THE time that the most devs are focusing on this new release so it's
the best time to find bugs or features that have gone wonky and post
bug-reports about them.

This is also a good time to join the QA Team to help them with filing&admin
tasks, and perhaps asking bug-reporters for relevant information that might
help the devs handle their request and generally help with first
responses.

Good luck and regards from
a Tom

Paul_D_Mirowsky · August 8, 2018, 3:13pm

FYI

11:08 AM EST

YouTube video is not displaying.

Results in message "If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device" in Firefox.

Interestingly enough, if you move your cursor over the time line, it display image from video.

Hope this helps.

James_Knott1 · August 8, 2018, 3:21pm

I see the same thing.

Brian_Barker · August 8, 2018, 3:35pm

So why does it work for me - in Firefox under Windows 10? Are you missing the underlying functionality required to display the video? Should you install Windows? ;^)

Brian Barker

M_Henri_Day · August 8, 2018, 3:38pm

Clicking Mike's link above runs the YouTube video without any problem on
Firefox on my 64-bit Linux Mint 19 installation....

Henri

elderdanlewis · August 8, 2018, 3:47pm

I am not having any problems watching the video either on Firefox, 64 bit Ubuntu 18.04. I just finished watching.

Dan

Gilles_Gravier · August 8, 2018, 3:49pm

For me it works fine with Chromium and Firefox... on Windows and on
Ubuntu 18.04.1.

Dave_Howorth · August 8, 2018, 3:53pm

<james.knott@jknott.net>:

> I see the same thing.
>
> > FYI
> >
> > 11:08 AM EST
> >
> > YouTube video is not displaying.
> >
> > Results in message "If playback doesn't begin shortly, try
> > restarting your device" in Firefox.
> >
> > Interestingly enough, if you move your cursor over the time line,
> > it display image from video.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> >
> >> Hi
> >> Mike Saunders and the rest of the marketing team (and
> >> translators) have made a video showing the new features in
> >> LibreOffice 6.1.0.
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvoCpnwGNFU
> >>

[snip]

> >>
> >>>> 2) There is a new video for LibreOffice 6.1; I'll provide the
> >>>> updated URL tomorrow just before launch.
> >>> Here it is:
> >>>
> >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvoCpnwGNFU
> >>>
> >>> Mike

Clicking Mike's link above runs the YouTube video without any problem
on Firefox on my 64-bit Linux Mint 19 installation....

Henri

Works for me. openSUSE Leap 15.0 with up-to-date codecs from packman.

James_Knott1 · August 8, 2018, 4:08pm

I did some more testing and found it fails in Seamonkey, but works in
Firefox & Chromium on 15.0.

Gilles_Gravier · August 8, 2018, 4:15pm

On Windows 7 it works on SeaMonkey 2.49.1 on my system.

Gilles

James_Knott1 · August 8, 2018, 4:20pm

Same version on 15.0.

James_Knott1 · August 8, 2018, 4:21pm

Sorry, I should have checked which list I was on. I'm running OpenSUSE
Linux, Leap 15.0.

Gilles_Gravier · August 8, 2018, 4:37pm

With SeaMonkey 2.49.4 on Ubuntu (installed from: https://www.linuxbabe.
com/ubuntu/how-to-install-seamonkey-on-ubuntu-16-04) but running on
18.04.1, it displays fine.

James_Knott1 · August 8, 2018, 4:42pm

Further testing revealed it was only Seamonkey on OpenSUSE Leap 15.0.
Firefox and Chromium are OK.

Eddie11 · August 8, 2018, 5:14pm

I watched it just fine on Vivaldi 1.15, Windows 10. I'm stoked about
the new icon sets!

Tom_Davies1 · August 8, 2018, 6:11pm

Hi
I'm really glad about the improved image handling. Has anyone tried that
feature yet? There have been all sorts of problems with images over the
years so i'm really glad of the work that has gone into that :))

I don't get hugely excited about icons, unless they are really unclear.
These are clear so it's a big (but unexcited) thumbs up from me

What features do other people like?
Regards from
a Tom

Paul_D_Mirowsky · August 8, 2018, 6:30pm

I don't know what happened, but I tried it in Chrome, Explorer and Firefox and had similar loading problems.

Restarted machine and Firefox is working now.

Probably related to NVidia driver, but who knows.

Sorry about the false start.

Enjoying the video now.

Thanks

Paul

Tom_Davies1 · August 9, 2018, 11:45am

Hi
I really liked the way you got instant support from someone else on the
mailing-list confirming that they too had the same problem a then a load of
people trying to pin-down exactly which OSes or at least platforms were
affected and which web-browsers.

It sounds like maybe someone heard us and fixed the problem pretty quickly
or perhaps that had been underway already but either way it was good to see
so many people quickly jumping in to help. I was about to post my own
machine and web-browser but someone else beat me to it by posting the
result of an almost identical set-up.

This mailing list is ace :)) Thanks all!!
Regards from
a Tom