Bug#499111: openoffice.org-writer: Conversion filters are not in sorted order, cumbersome because there are many
Package: openoffice.org-writer
Version: 1:2.4.1-8
Severity: normal
Now and then openoffice ask me to specify a filter when opening a
unknown file. This would be _much_ easier if the filters were in
sorted order.
If I look for a specific one, (say, some version of msword) then I have
to read the entire list instead of skipping through a sorted list to
where the microsoft converters are.
A sorted list would help even when I don't know the name of the right
converter, because it'd be much easier to skip all the ones I know it
isn't. In the msword example I could skip all "Open<something>"
converters as I know it isn't one of them.
This may seem like a small problem, but wading through 9 pages
of unsorted converters is tiresome, and it is easy to miss
the right one. Also, the fix is simple - sorting this list
won't be hard at all.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'stable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-rc6-hh1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library
ii libicu38 3.8.1-3 International Components for Unico
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libwpd8c2a 0.8.14-1 Library for handling WordPerfect d
ii libwps-0.1-1 0.1.2-1 Works text file format import filt
ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library
ii openoffice.org-base-co 1:2.4.1-8 OpenOffice.org office suite -- lib
ii openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-8 OpenOffice.org office suite archit
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer recommends:
ii openoffice.org-emailmerge 1:2.4.1-8 E-Mail Mailmerge component for Ope
ii openoffice.org-filter-binfi 1:2.4.1-8 Legacy filters (e.g. StarOffice 5.
ii openoffice.org-java-common 1:2.4.1-8 OpenOffice.org office suite Java s
ii openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5-8 Writer/Calc to LaTeX/XHTML convert
ii sun-j2sdk1.6 [java2-runtime 1.6.0+update Java(TM) JDK, Standard Edition, Su
Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer suggests:
ii openoffice.org-base 1:2.4.1-8 OpenOffice.org office suite - data
pn openoffice.org-gcj <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages openoffice.org-core depends on:
ii fontconfig 2.6.0-1 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.6.4-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcurl3 7.18.2-5 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libdb4.6 4.6.21-8 Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfreetype6 2.3.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.19-2 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.19-3 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.11-3 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.6-1 spell checker and morphological an
ii libhyphen0 2.4-2 ALTLinux hyphenation library - sha
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libicu38 3.8.1-3 International Components for Unico
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.10-3 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libneon27 0.28.2-5 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii libnspr4-0d 4.7.1-3 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.0-5 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-4+b1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-13 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-2 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-3 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.24-2 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
ii openoffice.org-common 1:2.4.1-8 OpenOffice.org office suite archit
ii ttf-opensymbol 1:2.4.1-8 The OpenSymbol TrueType font
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
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