tag 505486 - patch
thanks

[ please wrap your lines after a sane point, let's say 72 chars ]

Hi,

Valerio Passini wrote:
> I hope you will find this bug report useful even if it's referred to 
> experimental branch, but it is about the upcoming 3.0 version of openoffice. 
> Well, I have noticed that just in case you press hyperlinks contained in a 
> document, openoffice complains about: Openoffice could not find a web browser 
> on your syste. Please check your desktop preferences or install a web browser 
> (e.g.: Mozilla), blah blah blah...

Yes, there's a bug.

> Obviously the browser is in its place, and BTW there are at least three 
> browsers it can use (firefox, konqueror, epiphany). I have tried to check the 
> default browsers in /etc/alternatives, purging packages, almost everything. 
> Finally, googling around I have found in a mandriva forum (they are the best, 
> trust me ;D) that the problem is related only to KDE and the script  
> /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.0/program/kde-open-url.

Those Mandriva forums can't be the best given the snippet below. It hardcodes 
firefox.

> The original script gives this error in console:
> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/kde-open-url: line 7: `  
> else'
> 
> So I have just copy/paste the script from the mandriva forum and it worked:

Yeah, right, don't fix the syntax error right away (already reported btw) but 
use a script
from somewhere else loosing the feature that the altarnative and KDE settings 
are taken
into account ;-)

> I hope this script doesn't rise other bugs...

It does.

> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   500 unstable        www.debian-multimedia.org 
>   500 unstable        mirrors.ecology.uni-kiel.de 
>   500 unstable        mi.mirror.garr.it 
>   500 unstable        debian.fastweb.it 
>   500 testing         mi.mirror.garr.it 
>   500 stable          security.debian.org 
>   500 stable          mi.mirror.garr.it 
>     1 experimental    mi.mirror.garr.it 

Needless to say that this combination makes no sense...

Grüße/Regards,

René
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