Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Buchan Milne wrote: > > >>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 >> >>If these changes are made, I will add the KDE3 quickstarter to contrib. > > > 3) Why don't you simply make the changes in the quickstarters? Simpler, I > believe it is. >
Because, now someone downloads a new build from OpenOffice (or even worse, doesn't know that Mandrake ships with OpenOffice.org - I have seen this on the OpenOffice list also, and install an older build), and then they complain that it doesn't work, even though they fill in the right path. And my C/C++/GTK/QT isn't good enough to do add another checkbox for "Using Mandrake RPMs" or such. Plus, it prevents people from accidentally running the wrong script (/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice) and complaining that not only do the fonts look bad, but none of them are available inside OO.o Remember, the world is very good at creating idiots ... Is there any good reason not to apply my suggestion? > Does OOo work correctly for you under Gnome? I saw reports that people may > have to unset SESSION_MANAGER first prior to running OOo. Otherwise, it > would crash. > It runs fine. Mandrake 8.2 stock except for KDE3, updated Mozilla (rc2) and OpenOffice. Just the quickstarter applet crashes on logout, but OO.o runs much better than under KDE. > Next, I can't test that myself in Cooker yet since Gnome is kinda > broken... :-( I like the look of Gnome, but since I don't even run cooker, I will wait until 2.0 is out before I even attempt. I just hope they realise the importance of fixing the file dialog box (the thing that sucks second-most about Gnome, Nautilus being No1). 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
