Re: [authors] M139 is out

[Jean Hollis Weber]

Jan Wilson wrote:
I said (foolishly):
It installed OK in Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy), but it won't shut down.  It 
will create, edit, and save a file, but when I try to close the 
application, it won't close.  I have to manually kill the process.  It 
doesn't take anything with it, but I'd say that's a showstopper  ;-)


Actually, it IS a documentation issue.  The OOo Linux documentation says 
(something like) to be sure you run it as a user with permission to 
modify files where it is installed.  So after installation, I ran it 
first using sudo, since I had installed it into /opt.

Trouble is, that then creates user files in ~/.ooo-dev2 but they are all 
owned by root  :-(  so it's like running OOo from a CD  ;-)

After changing permission of all those files, it seems to work OK.  It 
even shuts down when you click on the Close button  ;-)

If you really DO need to run as a user with permission to modify the 
location of where the main OOo files are located, then we need to 
provide some step-by-step instructions.  Otherwise, it should say to 
make sure you are running with permissions to write to your own home 
directory.


If this is something new in this developer build, then it may be 
a bug rather than something to be documented. Did the stable 2.0 
release work like this? If not, then I suspect a problem in the 
new build.

Jean