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I talking as an experienced user. Still I prefer the installation to be as
simple and quick as possible, but I strongly oppose that OOo should change
existing associations without asking. Therefore it should atomatically
associate with ALL supported file types that currently have NO association.
Then, if there is an existing association for either doc, xls, ppt or rtf,
there should be a simple question:
"Do you want OpenOffice.org to become your default application for all standard
Microsoft Office documents and Rich Text Format (Wordpad) documents? If you
choose "No", you can later change your preferred associations by {going to
options/using the supplied tool/..?..}
Yes or No."
Please consider: it doesn't matter if MS Office is installed, because Microsoft
offers free viewers for .doc, .xls and .ppt. Users may not want OOo to open MS
Office documents, when they usually don't open them for editing, but for
viewing only.
Then we need a good UI for editing associations. Ideally it would display
extension, description, current association and a checkbox for OOo association.
One more:
It is possible for any file type to have several associations (but of course
only one default association), which all appear in the context menu. I'm not
talking about the "Open with..." sub-menu, which is set by Windows when using
the "Choose program..." option in this sub-menu.
So even when the user chooses not to change default associations for MS Office
documents, OOo can add itself to the options in the main context menu.
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