I just had to reinstall OOo and I see what you mean with the dialog.
The checkboxes in the dialog we are talking about are by no meansFrankly, I hate it when programs do that. Especially at install time. Often I simply don't know if I want the program to do those things yet. It doesn't help that I've probably got a dozen programs on my machine that can open a jpg. Same for mp3. Graphic and media players can be downright aggressive that way. It's not a behavior to emulate.
different to others in OOo or other programs. Moreover, nearly every
graphic viewer I know has a similar configuration dialog where you have
text at the top that says: "use xxx as a viewer for:" followed by
several checkboxes, each for a specific graphical format. I never heard
that this poses a problem to the common user.
My opinion is that the checkboxes should just go away. Devise some way to set the file associations through the options or tools menu. If the installer could detect an installation of Word, etc. then I would only set those associations at install time if the installer *did not* detect those programs on the machine. I suppose you could skip that step for other platforms.
Rod
You are talking about a piffling little change in the code (I am also a professional programmer) which would take less than 5 minutes, but would considerably increase the possibility of "newbies" moving on to become OOo advocates.
My 2c worth.
Dave
It basically says. Do you want OOo to open files of type and then it list the MS Office apps.
What it really is doing is becoming the default app for those file types but it is no entirely clear on this point.
We need to make this a little more clear to the new guy. I do not check the boxes because OOo can not do all the things at work with our standard templates in Excel that Excel can do. ( I am working on this problem) but if I misread that and click yes. I would then have to go and change it back which is a real pain.
I do not know if we need to get rid of the dialog or just make it more clear. but one of the two things needs to be done.
The dialog box is big enough to make the comment more verbose so that is the option that I think we should go with and it should not take someone very long to do it either.
James Walker Central US MarCon
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