[KLUG Members] OO.0 2

[Eric Beversluis]

Very interesting--and somewhat off-putting:

OO 2.0 saves files in a new format (eg, .odt for Writer files) following
the OASIS open document standard. The result seems to be that a whole
bunch of overhead stuff gets saved into a zip file.  When you click on
this zip file you see two folders and a half-dozen different files. The
text content of the document is supposedly located in content.xml, but
when you click on that you don't get the file in OpenOffice but in an
xml format with all the tags.

So it looks like you always have to open OO first and then open the file
in OO in order to be able to use it.  Is this an improvement? It sure
seems easier to me the old way, when you just could click on the
document icon and it would open automatically in OpenOffice.

EB