On 12/20/2010 12:19 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2010-12-17 8:09 PM, NoOp wrote: >> - LO takes over all OOo application defaults & icons. >> - LO uses the same executable names as OOo (soffice.exe, swriter.exe, >> etc). This makes it impossible to select an .odt and re-associate it >> with OOo. > > While I absolutely agree that the executable names should be changed, > file associations needs a bit more than that, I was very glad to see > that LibO brought back the ability to choose file associations for Word, > Excel and Powerpoint file types at install time, but more is needed - > the associations for the newer XML formats need to be treated > separately, so, instead of just 3 associations, there would be 6. > > With that one difference in mind, I'd *love* to see LibO implement > something along the lines of my long-standing request (77257) for a > proper 'File Extension Manager' (which was created long before the new > XML formats): > > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=77257 >
Have a look at: <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/4130> You'll need to click on the "(Continue reading) to get the full details, but if you look at the last: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/4360> you'll see that executable names between OOo and LibO is a serious problem. And BTW: +1 on 77257 and a proper 'File Exension Manager'. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
