I have got RPMs of both the Gnome and the KDE3 quickstarter for OpenOffice.org. However, at present, it requires a bit of workaround, since
1)The Gnome quickstarter wants you to give it a directory which looks like the one created by the OpenOffice.org installer. It needs to find program/soffice below that. If you specify /usr/lib/openoffice, you then bypass the ooffice script provided in the Mandrake RPMs, and the biggest impact is that you miss the fonts. 2)The KDE quickstarter wants a script named soffice (or a directory, in which it will use soffice). Proposal: My proposal which would fix both of these issues (and maybe more) without needing workarounds (like creating pseudo directories and linking soffice in the directory to /usr/bin/ooffice - which works for me at the moment) is to: a)change the original soffice shell script in /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice to /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.sh b)Change the /usr/bin/ooffice to /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice, and make /usr/bin/ooffice a link to /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice If these changes are made, I will add the KDE3 quickstarter to contrib. This should also help people who have used OpenOffice.org before, and for some reason start it via /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice out of habit. Believe me, there are people like this on the openoffice mailing lists! Otherwise, great work. With my workarounds for the Gnome quickstarter, I have a desktop that works very well, I just need to figure out why Nautilus refuses to show the icons for OpenOffice.org files, but I think that is a problem with Nautilus. Hopefully Nautilus in Gnome2 will be more useable than a console, faster to start than Mozilla, and actually work like the rest of Gnome does!!!! You would think the official file manager for a desktop would actually use the settings for that desktop. Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
