[KLUG Members] OO.0 2

[Eric Beversluis]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 15:37 -0500, greenproc wrote:
> 
> 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>
> 
I think I finally got it. I rt clicked on an OO.o1.x document and saw
what it had there and tried to adapt that. One hitch is that although
the script 'soffice' will open open office, the individual docs have to
be opened with 'swriter' or 'scalc' etc.

Thanks to all.

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