Re: KDE, openoffice bug
Red, it seems that you replied directly to me instead of the mailing
list. I am ccing the mailing list to keep the discussion onlist.
> WOW! You are FAST! Thank you. (Are you in Israel? If I have the right
> person, you seem to have Ivrit on your web page. My kid just came back from
> 9 months in Israel!)
>
Yes, I live in Nesher, near Haifa. Where was your son?
Below, you will see that your HTML formatted mail destroyed the
quoting hierarchy, so you may want to disable HTML mail for the
mailing list. In fact, the mailing list etiquette guidelines forbit
HTML mail!
> The KDE release is 3.5.10; I know that the system does not COME with
> firefox, but I installed firefox 3.5 from tarballs downloaded at the mozilla
> website. It's installed in my /home/alyssa/firefox folder, and I have tried
> using three different paths in the component chooser --- none of which maes
> any difference : /home/alyssa/firefox/firefox ; /home/alyssa/bin/firefox;
> and also just plain firefox; I just tried /usr/bin/firefox as well, and that
> did not work, either, (though the firefox in the last path is a virtual
> link, not the actual executable)
>
Another poster mentioned that the KDE settings do not affect OOo. This
seems related to a bug I filed recently:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197727
If it is a KDE issue and not an OOo issue, then I will add that info
to the bug and change it's title appropriately. Thank you for the tip.
In the meantime, have you tried the other method "the right way",
really that Tom suggested?
Here, I correct your mailer's HTML quoting for clarity:
> > If I then attempt to switch to a firefox browser, the system first downloads
> > a file of the page in question and then opens the FILE with firefox. This is
> > unacceptable. I want to be able to browse the web with firefox 3.5 located
> > in my home directory without Konqueror as an intermediary. I do not want
> > Konqui to open from inside openoffice documents AT ALL.
>
> I am talking about opening html web pages and html documents from links
> embedded within my openoffice documents.
If the file is HTML, what program would you expect to open it other
than Firefox?
> I am a writer. I frequently embed
> links into stories, as is required by online publications, before
> submission. However, when I am working on these documents, and want to check
> the efficacy of links within the openoffice documents, only Konqui will open
> them. KDE does use firefox for everything else, but NOT to open links inside
> openoffice documents. (Mind you, I am NOT talking about opening openoffice
> documents with firefox! I want to be able to open embedded links WITHIN
> OpenOffice documents with firefox.) There does not seem to be any setting in
> OpenOffice to specify the broswer to open embedded links. And I can'f dind
> any discussion on firefox, debian, openoffice or kde discussion boards about
> this specific problem. But I have been grappling with it since installing
> etch about 1.5 years ago. I never had this specific problem with Mandriva.
> Debian, on the other
> hand, just does not recognize forefox as my main broswer, when I open links
> in openoffice docs. Debian's issues with copyright should have nothing
> whatever to do with this, as firefox is installed properly and works for
> EVERYTHING else, including all updates and broswer add-ons
>
Apparently, either KDE is setting a KDE-only setting (likely) or OOo
is not respecting the system default (unlikely).
If as I suspect KDE is setting only the KDE setting, and not the
system setting, then you need to set the system setting be an
alternative means, such as Tom suggested above.
> THANK YOU again for your speedy reply, and any help you can suggest!!!!
>
Happily!
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Dotan Cohen
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