Re: Gnome MIME types
Hi John,
Thanks for the offer!
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:14:04AM +0100, John M Cooper wrote:
> I have been looking into gnome mime types and it should be fairly simple
> to create a set for OpenOffice.org that could be setup as defaults. We
> would then want to disable the ones that OOo adds to the users profile.
>
> The first part I can do simply and would mean that even if the user had
> not used OOo yet the mime types would be recognised and OOo would be
> run. This should not interfere with the stuff that is installed as part
> of the setup.
That's great :)
> The second part would mean changing the code of the setup program I
> think so I am not to sure. i don't think that this is completely
> necessary but would mean less tampering with the users home dir.
Well, to stopping the install shouldn't actually be so difficult. If you
look at the setup response files at
http://www.mx1.ru/~chris/oo-deb/debian/local/
you can see that there is a MODULE_SPECIFY section in rsfile.global.txt that
allows you to finetune what gets installed.
The user setup is controlled by rsfile.local.txt, and there is not yet any
MODULE_SPECIFY section, so I think everything gets installed.
It is possible to get setup to produce a list of modules - I put them at
http://www.mx1.ru/~chris/script.htm
for you to have a look at (I generated it with setup -sdump). Have a look
at the setup guide at
http://installation.openoffice.org/01RESPONSE_SO52_final_rev2.pdf
which tells you about how setup works.
The autoresponse file gets installed at /etc/openoffice/autoresponse.conf in
the .deb. Hopefully you can work out what needs to go in there to prevent
GNOME and KDE stuff from being installed in the users profile.
> Also should we associate the MS documents with OOo as well?
I believe so. The user can always override the mime settings if they want
something else, but it would be nice to supply these by default.
If you can, please join us on IRC #debian-oo at irc.openprojects.net and we
can discuss further.
Thanks,
Chris
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