[KLUG Members] OO.0 2

[Eric Beversluis]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 13:23 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > 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.

So where do I set the file associations? When I right-click on that
particular file, I get "Open With" and then select "Other Application."
This dialog prompts me to "Choose an application with which to open
"Riverrun.odt", but the only option it gives me is File Roller. Acc to
the Nautilus help file I should see this option:
     "Choose Other Viewer. An 'Open With Other Viewer' dialog is
displayed."
But I do not see that option. I don't see any way to get away from File
Roller and enter OpenOffice2.0 (if that's the correct form of the
program name to use).

EB
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