LibreOffice.flatpak
Flatpak is the new name of xdg-app. So following up on my previous LibreOffice in a Box post, here is some more technical detail on how an upcoming LibreOffice 5.2 will be available as a Flatpak...
View ArticleLibreOffice 5.2 Beta Flatpak
Flatpak (formerly known under its working title “xdg-app”) is a cool new way of distributing images of Linux applications that run on a wide range of different distros, and run there in a secure way. I...
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Plugin, Flamed
Just how much is our Clang plugin slowing down builds of LibreOffice? We are constantly adding more and more useful functionality to it, and some of it is well known to be written in a way that is...
View ArticleClang in Fedora 24
I’m only ever using a bleeding edge Clang trunk build myself. So when Fedora enabled use of the GCC abi_tag attribute in libstdc++ (i.e., switched the _GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI macro to 1 by default), it...
View ArticleLibreOffice.flatpak update
New revisions of LibreOffice are routinely uploaded to http://www.libreoffice.org/download/flatpak/ by now. But things have changed slightly with the recent upload of LibreOffice 5.2.3: GNOME Software...
View ArticleToo Subtle?
Spot the difference between the two C++ programs struct S { int a = b, b; }; int main() { return (new S())->a; } and struct S { int a = b, b; }; int main() { return (new S)->a; } Right, the first...
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LibreOffice, Flatpak’ed, Flathub’ed
Flathub is the app store for all things Flatpak. And LibreOffice is now available there, too! When we started flatpak’ing LibreOffice, we made builds of the LibreOffice “Fresh” stream available on the...
View ArticleLibreOffice 6 available at flathub.org
We moved the LibreOffice Flatpak builds to Flathub a while ago, and updating to new versions is normally a pain-free process. (For us as producers of those updates, at least. For you as a user of...
View ArticleLibreOffice on Chromebooks
Until recently, Chromebooks could browse the Web and run dedicated ChromeOS and Android applications, and that was that. But things are changing now since Google announced Crostini, a technology to run...
View ArticleI like it here. Can I stay?
(And do you have a vacancy for a back-scrubber?) Thank you, Red Hat, for generously letting me work for so long on stuff that is near and dear to my heart. At the intersection of theory and practice,...
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