Question - Re: MrProject digest, Vol 1 #266 - 2 msgs

What's the basic difference between Gnome, Code Factory and Mandraake?

Seems mandrake pulls together software and just packages it, and Gnome and
Code Factory are 2 separate groups of people working on freeware?

Kim
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> Subject: Re: [MrProject] Please don't shoot, but is there a Windows
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> From: Richard Hult <[email protected]>
> To: MrpList <[email protected]>
> Date: 29 Jul 2002 11:36:25 +0200
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> m=E5n 2002-07-22 klockan 16.41 skrev Ewan R. Grantham:
> > Am trying to build a migration case, and one of the things I need to
show=
>  is
> > that there is a cross-platform tool for doing project management
(because
> > not everyone will move at once). Is there a Windows version of
MrProject?=
>  If
> > not, can the Linux version read an MS Project MPP file?
>
> Hi,
>
> There is no windows version, and unfortunately we can't read MPP files.
> We can "almost" read MPX files though, which is the import/export format
> used in MS Project 98 (Project 2000 can read but not write MPX, I
> think).=20
>
> By "almost" I mean that we have support for reading those files but it's
> not really usable yet.
>
> In Project 2000 they are using MBD (Access database format) as
> import/export format, which we don't have support for. It would be cool
> if someone implemented that.
>
> Regards,
> Richard
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> Richard Hult                    [email protected]
> CodeFactory AB                  http://www.codefactory.se/
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> Message: 2
> Subject: Re: [MrProject] mrproject 0.51 problems
> From: Richard Hult <[email protected]>
> To: MrpList <[email protected]>
> Date: 29 Jul 2002 11:46:10 +0200
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> tor 2002-07-25 klockan 16.02 skrev Carl B. Constantine:
> > I have a couple problems with mrproject 0.5.1 (Debian). Some of these
> > are bugs that I'm sure are known, but thought I would state them anyway.
>
> Thanks. We are currently working on the GNOME 2 port of MrProject so
> some of these bugs do not apply.
>
> > 1) my gantt chart view doesn't show the ID column like the screenshots
> > on the web site. see: http://www.duckwing.ca/images/mrpg.png. CVS
> > version in screenshot maybe? Seems true of other screen shots on the web
> > site as well.
>
> We removed that column since it was considered not very usefull.
>
> > 2) the Network view renders fonts poorly and there is currently no way
> > to tell MrP what to use. see http://www.duckwing.ca/images/mrpn.png. Any
> > ideas on this one? I note that this same file looks fine on my Laptop
> > running RedHat 7.3 and has virtually all the same fonts (I copied them
> > from my Debian system).
>
> Known problem... that particular component is not really finished and
> not very usable in its current form.
>
> > 3) selecting a calendar date from the edit task is off my one whole
> > month. You choose Sept 30 for example to get Aug 30.
>
> Hm, I haven't seen this. Works in the GNOME 2 version :)
>
> > 4) also in the edit task dialog, you can't directly edit the dates just
> > by typing over the day/month/year you want. it seems you *must* use the
> > calendar popup. I consider this a bug.
> >
> > 5) undo isn't there (or at least I couldn't undo a create subtask by
> > mistake, the undo was greyed out).
>
> Both are known bugs.
>
> > Feature requests:
>
> We keep track of feature requests at our bug database:
> http://freedom.codefactory.se/bugzilla/
>
> It would be much appreciated if you could enter those requests there.
>
> > I'm a programmer and would love to impelement some of these, but I'm
> > sure they are already on the "todo" list. I'm also swamped with other
> > coding projects right now such as the one I'm using Mr. Project to
> > manage ;-)
>
> Thanks for your report, any help is welcome :)
>
> Regards,
> Richard
>
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