Re: Gnome 2.0 Openoffice integration

[Abe Fettig <abe@fettig.net>]

Thanks for the tip, Jack!

Abe

On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 00:36, Jack Howarth wrote:
>    In case anyone else was trying to get Nautilius to launch
> OpenOffice documents under Gnome 2.0, the fix is trivial.
> While the OpenOffice documents are shown with the proper icons
> under Gnome 2.0's Nautilius, right-clicking the files shows
> there is no OpenOffice.org entry in the Open with submenu.
> It turns out that gnome-vfs 2.0.x expects a binary for 'ooffice'
> to be present. Once you add this as a symlink as follows...
> 
> ln -s /usr/bin/openoffice /usr/bin/ooffice
> 
> ...these OpenOffice documents will be launchable into OpenOffice
> by doubleclicking and the Open with submenu will show an
> OpenOffice.org entry as the default. This won't work under Gnome 1.4
> because the gnome-vfs in that version is brain-dead and mistakes
> OpenOffice files for compressed zips. This is fixed in Gnome-vfs 2.0.x.
> Anyway, just thought folks might be interested.
>                              Jack
> ps This is using the current OpenOffice.org 1.0.1-3 debian packages.
> 
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