Re: Mozilla with 680 mxx -- what are the special features?

Sergio Trejo wrote:
> Hmmmm ... it didn't strike me until today:
> 
> What benefits or "special features" does one receive by using Mozilla
> with Ooo 1.9 680 mxx? I was thinking, maybe I don't need to configure
> --with-mozilla
> 

There are three features in OOo that use mozilla:
- address book
Any address book supported by mozilla (mozilla's own, LDAP, possibly 
others) can be used as address data source in OOo (e.g. for mail 
merges). For this feature OOo includes a private copy of parts of 
mozilla. This feature could be disabled (IIRC there is a separate 
--disable-mozab configure flag for this)

- digital signatures
This feature uses cryptographic functionality from the mozilla nss 
library. The feature can't be completely disabled. IIRC this implies 
that --disable-mozilla to build without any mozilla pieces does not work 
any more. (Disclaimer: This may have changed since I last checked)

- LDAP user data
OpenOffice.org can fetch some of the data about the current user (found 
in Tools-Options-OpenOfffice.org-User Data; usable as document fields, 
eg. in letter templates) from a LDAP directory. This feature uses the 
LDAP-SDK that is part of mozilla. Alternatively this feature can be 
built, completely without mozilla, to use openldap system libraries, 
using --with-openldap.

> Also, does anyone know if the 1.9 680 mxx builds of OOo give us LDAP
> capabilities (I think I read somewhere that OOo 2.x plans to have LDAP
> features).
> 

In $(prefix)/share/registry/data/org/openoffice/, there is a sample 
file, which you have to adapt to your LDAP environment and install as 
LDAP.xcu in the same directory (or in 
$HOME/.openoffice*/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/ for a single user 
- but that makes only limited sense) to enable the feature. For the full 
detail see 
<http://specs.openoffice.org/installation/system_integration/ldap_userprofile.sxw>.

Ciao, Jörg

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