Bug#563756: ..workaround found: Bug#563756: /usr/bin/ooimpress: ..Microsoft Powerpoint chainmail hijacks ooimpress, crossflatform virus?
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:08:50 +0100, Rene wrote in message
<20100105100850.GE10923@rene-engelhard.de>:
> retitle 563756 opening .pps in a window impossible
> severity 563756 wishlist
> tag 563756 + wontfix
> forcemerge 548959 563756
> thanks
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 10:35:17AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > ..pass, I ditched Microsoft Wintendo 95 on 26 re-installs 12 years
> > ago that cost me 2 years research data on thermochemical
> > gasification, so I moved on to SuSE 5.2, and, I got /tmp/Om\
> > penger\ -\ NO.pps from what initially looked like a buddy's
> > happy-new-year mail to me and a bunch of people, and then, like
> > some kinda cross-platform virus.
>
> No, that's most probably just a some new year stuff in a autoplay
> ppt. (As I get too and just ignore)
>
> > > > (No, playing the presentation and quitting, which is the point
> > > > of pps doesn't make it do that).
> >
> > ..I lost you totally here: I am not aware of any mail going out
> > from my box, nor from ooimpress, I got the very firm impression
>
> Aha, OK.
>
> > /tmp/Om\ penger\ -\ NO.pps had managed to deny me control over
> > ooimpress on my damned box.
>
> You should think more before thinking of viruses, really.
> (Especially what a pps is)
..Microsoft has built an _impressive_ record on their Office suite
producing "3'rd party software", so I was not very surprised to see
/tmp/Om\ penger\ -\ NO.pps act like it, the surprise was seeing it
have an impact on X etc on a GNU/Linux box, and now you tell me OOo
too likes to do things the Microsoft way.
> > > > > ...I found _no_ way of windowing or closing the chainmail
> > > > > without also killing ooimpress. Anyone else wanna try it?:
> > > >
> > > > Then you didn't try (or look) hard enough. pps is just a ppt +
> > > > autoplay. (So as said in 548959 a mv just does it)
> >
> > ..huh? Am I, by OOo design policy, not _supposed_
> > to run a pps file in ooimpress in e.g. a window???
>
> mv foo.pps foo.ppt.
..as a 3'rd time user, I would like to know that, _before_
ooimpress tries to impress me with Microsoft style stunts.
..and, I have now found a way to gain control; hit alt+tab,
that 2-key stroke works at least on KDE-4.3.4.
> The point of pps is to autoplay. As said, a pps is nothing elese
> than a autoplayed ppt. Complain to M$ for this "invention".
..I know _enough_ about Microsoft products thank you very much,
but you're blaming "M$" for what ooimpress does? I am _not_
impressed.
> PowerPoint AFAIR (last used it years ago...) also shows the pps and
> quits. (Didn't try, but doesn't really matter at all).
..I totally agree about that matter, I ditched that crap 12 years
ago and see _no_ point in it being re-implemented for GNU/Linux.
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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