[KLUG Members] OO.0 2

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> 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.

You don't have the file associations for the new extensions, so it is
doing magic detection and discovering that it is a ZIP file (which is
true).  OOo 1.0 files were also ZIP files,  you could open them in the
archive manager and discover the same thing - but your file associations
were high-jacking (correctly) the process and sending you over to OOo.
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