Jay Lozier wrote: > > I have seen with other file types particularly audio and video files > where you might have two or three players and the last one installed > changes the file associations in the registry to it. > Jay, that's right. A well-behaved program should inform the user during installation what it's going to do and offer the option of taking over all the file associations the program want, none of them, or individually choose only some.
VLC (VideoLanClient) does exactly that. Last time I installed VLC, the file associations it wanted (all 98 of them!) appeared in a dialog box during installation. They were sorted into categories and sub-categories and each one of them could be selected or unselected individually. The only thing missing was extensive help for users unsure of what choices to make. However, in the case of LibO/OOo it might be better not to give too fine-grained a choice to the user... or perhaps the ability to select/unselect each file type should be hidden far down some "Advanced Users Only" dialog box. Otherwise there will be lots of confused users asking questions like, "When I double-click .odt files I get LibO Writer, when I double click .ott files I get OOo Writer, what's wrong??" when the answer will be, "It happens because of the choices you made during installation." Come to think, I suspect that's why the recommendation to uninstall OOo is there: someone thought this would be a good idea to forestall requests for assistance coming in. If I'm right about that, then it wasn't such a good idea, more like throwing out the baby with the bathwater... -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Side-by-side-install-of-LibO-and-OOo-tp3078835p3089503.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted