"Lars Nooden" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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On 04/16/2010 05:28 PM, Cor Nouws wrote:
I don't think it is reasonable or fair towards Bernard to somehow
suggest him being a colleague of MS guys.
Sorry, it must have been the content of his messages over time that gave
that illusion. We'll say it's a coincidence.
Regardless, the basics of the icons are a technical issue: it is a visual
indicator of a particular standard. Back when OOo/SO had their own
format, it made sense to have the icon visually tied to the application.
OOo now uses ODF. It has used ODF since 2005 or so? IIRC, Koffice was
first to support ODF, but OOo was the first to use it as the default
format.
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/
http://opendocument.xml.org/milestones
There's a continual festival of disinformation about both the standard
format and about our application, OpenOffice.org. There is also a suite
that breaks ODF files so that they don't work properly with
OpenOffice.org. (Hint, it's not Symphony or Koffice.) Using icons tied
to *any* application to indicate a standard format implies that there are
local flavors or variations on that format, thus implying that
incompatibility is not just expected but normal.
The OOo community has worked a lot on interoperability and that is one of
the products strengths.
Regards
/Lars
I'm confused by this conversation. Data (as opposed to program/executable)
file types don't have their own icons. By default, data files acquire the
icon of the executable to which they are associated. For example, if I
choose to associate ODT files to Firefox (not a particularly clever thing to
do but I specifically want a nonsensical example) then, on my system, ODT
files would have the red Firefox icon and my OS would invoke Firefox if I
double click (to open) an ODF file.
I said "by default" above because, of course, the user can choose to change
the icon, or at least s/he can on some OS's. Changing a file's icon in no
way influences what happens when that file is double-clicked (opened). So,
for example, if I don't like the "seagulls" OOo icon for ODT files I can
change it to any icon on my system. So ODT files could show up with the
Firefox icon but still open with Writer. Again, not particularly sensible
but it proves the point.
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Harold Fuchs
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