[KLUG Members] OO.0 2

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Eric Beversluis wrote:
> 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).

Do you have the option to specify "other application"?  If so, choose
that, and then point it to the OO binary for the given filetype, like
/usr/bin/<something>

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> EB
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