I had the experience recently where I needed two extensions to work - the presenter console and the presentation minimizer - both for Impress.
Having installed various 'flavours' of OOo on this laptop - the Ubuntu 10.04 std version of 3.2, some OOo-devs and more recently Betas and RCs of 3.3, as well as LibO Beta, my OOo settings (in the .openoffice.org folder of my home directory) got the hiccups in a big way. I could see the second screen but there was no presenter console. The minimizer just did not work at all. It seems that one can run into problems with versioning - both of the extensions as well as OOo itself. The former "Sun" extensions now seemed to be outdated when using 3.3, but the "Oracle" ones did not really work too well either. The only installed version which worked out of the box with these two extensions was LibO, and that was because the LibO package seems to come with them. It is worth noting that extensions may and usually do lag behind the development of OOo. If you have a critical need for a particular extension, take care if installing an RC (or perhaps even a Beta) version as it may well interfere with your existing (working) system - even if it installs the program files in different places and the programs themselves work quite fine. Just a note for interest of others, maybe you will not get caught like me, sitting on the plane and wondering what I was going to do when I arrived next morning for the presentation! I do not know if we cover extensions anywhere, and/or if this is something which might be useful information for users? Martin -- Martin J Fox 马丁·福克斯 [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________ VK7MM/HB9TQX Registered as #324626 with the Linux counter, www.counter.li.org QQ 775937674 / MSN [email protected] A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
