Hi :) I think the desktop integration packages normally get added around the time that beta-testing is over. It might have happened earlier in some branches, such as the 4.0.0 but when beta testing it's fairly normal to find one or 2 things are not quite finalised. Normally you just report problem and get on with the rest to see if you can find anything else. Getting bogged down with 1 issue means you miss the chance to explore the rest.
Thanks for testing so far though! Good work. Good luck with the rest! :) Thanks and regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: sun shine <phaedr...@gmail.com> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Monday, 22 July 2013, 15:09 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] desktop-integration > > >Girvin > >This is a topic I have some interest in and have been following. > >While I am aware of the capacity to run the soffice script from the >terminal and even creating a custom launcher for the Gnome, XFCE4 and in >Mint, Mate panels, what I am curious about is exactly why doing so is >even necessary in the first place? > >This will have been the first time in my experience of using OOo and now >LibO that doing this manually is necessary, and it makes me wonder what >value the desktop-integration package has if the user still needs to do >this customised approach to get the application to work. > >Are you able to shine any light on the matter? Is this an oversight from >the 4.1. beta developers, a bug, or - a feature? Similarly, any ideas >about why this desktop integration (which doesn't) is only geared for >the KDE and not for Gnome (and Gnome-like) DEs? > >Thanks for any insights you can share. > > > > > >On 21/07/13 20:47, Girvin R. Herr wrote: >> Heinrich, >> Have you tried bringing LibreOffice up with "soffice" in a terminal >> shell, or unambiguously, "/opt/libreoffice4.1/program/soffice" (less >> quotes, of course)? >> If that works, then you could manually add a link in your menu or at >> least an icon on your desktop. >> soffice is the main libreoffice program or, more accurately, script, >> that invokes the other programs (Writer, Calc, etc.). If that program >> is not run first, then the others may not be initialized properly to run. >> >> You could also run writer, calc, etc. from a terminal and see what >> messages are output from it. They may give you a clue as to why it >> isn't running properly. But my bet is on soffice. >> >> FYI: "soffice" is a legacy name from the StarOffice days. Maybe some >> day the devs will get around to changing that - unless it would break >> something. >> >> Hope this helps. >> Girvin Herr >> ><snip> > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >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 > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
