I voted for this one. Chad, get on over there! And while you guys are looking at issues, could somebody else see if my issue, http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=46035 is confirmable? It may be a "Windows only" issue. I can't get m80, so it may be fixed. But if it's not resolved for 2.0, it's a true show stopper for me. :-( -Greg
Date sent: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:21:47 -0500 From: James Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: Re: No more file association to MSO when installing > Michael A Chase wrote: > > >On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:01:26 -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > > > > > > >>I will vote for it too. I will also 'cofirm' the issue, so that it goes > >>to the developers directly. And I'll track it. But having me tracking it > >>doesn't really mean much. It just means you have a friend trying to > >>help. > >> > >> > > > >I prefer the wording proposed by Matt Needles in August 2004. I've filed > >an issue by borrowing the wording I put into 4414 last August. I don't > >do Windows, so I haven't seen the dialog myself. > > > >Issue 46347: Clearer Explaination Needed in the File Associations Dialog > >===== > >The most frequent complaint seen on the users' lists is "Help! Your > >program has taken over my computer!" Either the description needs to be > >made more clear, or making OOo the default for MSO file types should be > >defered until runtime. > > > >Suggested wording from Matt Needles in August 2004: "OpenOffice.org can > >open MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. Another program is > >currently assigned this task on your system. Do you want OpenOffice.org > >to be the default program to open these files when you open them from > >Windows Explorer? If you choose NO, you may still open these files from > >within OpenOffice.org." > >===== > > > >I encourage anyone who is interested to add comments and vote early and > >often. > > > > > > > I did not see this when I checked for it again, so there is a second > issue # for this now, 46397. can someone (who knows how to, since I > don't fix it so that there is not 2 issues for the same thing.) sorry. > should have kept reading before filing. > > > James Walker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
