Thanks for the tip, Jack! Abe
On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 00:36, Jack Howarth wrote: > In case anyone else was trying to get Nautilius to launch > OpenOffice documents under Gnome 2.0, the fix is trivial. > While the OpenOffice documents are shown with the proper icons > under Gnome 2.0's Nautilius, right-clicking the files shows > there is no OpenOffice.org entry in the Open with submenu. > It turns out that gnome-vfs 2.0.x expects a binary for 'ooffice' > to be present. Once you add this as a symlink as follows... > > ln -s /usr/bin/openoffice /usr/bin/ooffice > > ...these OpenOffice documents will be launchable into OpenOffice > by doubleclicking and the Open with submenu will show an > OpenOffice.org entry as the default. This won't work under Gnome 1.4 > because the gnome-vfs in that version is brain-dead and mistakes > OpenOffice files for compressed zips. This is fixed in Gnome-vfs 2.0.x. > Anyway, just thought folks might be interested. > Jack > ps This is using the current OpenOffice.org 1.0.1-3 debian packages. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
