It seems that Windows 7 Wordpad will also open for an ODT file if no Microsoft Office or *Office[.org] application has claimed the default.
- Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Keith N. McKenna [mailto:keith.mcke...@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 05:34 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > > > On 06/04/2012 11:07 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Kay Schenk<kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> . >>> In no circumstance should AOO establish itself as a default for any file >>> type. >>> >> I'd say "In no circumstance should AOO establish itself as a default >> for any file type which is already associated with another program." >> That is, we shouldn't "steal" file associations. If, OTOH, someone is >> installing AOO on a box without MS Office, then it makes perfect sense >> to make AOO the default program for .doc, .ppt, etc. >> >> Likewise, most people probably don't have a "native" ODF program on >> their systems, and installing AOO as the default for ODF would >> probably make sense in most cases. >> >> >> Phil >> > Claim is that it hijacked files from word pad. No idea what that > extension might be, i did not ask him. > the default extension for wordpad is rtf and AOO does appear to define itself as the default for that extension. regards Keith
