Hi :) Perhaps good for a new wiki-page? Perhaps somethign like http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Faq/RemoveDistroSpecificLibreOffice Hmmm, perhaps something a bit snappier?
This page was set-up before there was an Faq section http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel Perhaps usinga shorter address such as that might be good? Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 7/12/11, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dan Lewis <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] OT: Returning Ubuntu to Classic Desktop To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 7 December, 2011, 20:51 Comments inline On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 11:07 +1000, Jean Weber wrote: > My efforts yesterday to find things on Ubuntu 11.10 with the new Unity > interface drove me nuts, so this morning I found instructions to get > the Classic desktop back. Tried it on my test computer and it worked > fine. I can find things again, despite a few of them not being where I > expected. Once the Classic desktop is installed, you can switch > between it and Unity, so you're no longer stuck with one or the other. > (The switching facility was built into 11.04, I think, but removed in > 11.10.) > I looked at my Ubuntu installation. The only switching that I see is switching users. However, if a person uses two users (classic desktop for one and Unity for the other), then switching users will switch desktops as well. > Then I found instructions for creating a desktop launcher (another > thing that changed in 11.10) and got some more things back the way I'm > used to them. Someone new to Ubuntu might not find the new interface > as annoying as I do, but I'm glad others don't like it, because they > post useful how-tos. I followed your instructions below for creating a desktop launcher. I even created a script that will create it. Finally, I created a desktop launcher for the script which I dragged onto the top panel. (You can still drag an icon from Applications on to the panel, but always where you would want them. Their positions are limited.) Here is something that I just discovered! Alt+right click on the top panel opens a context menu similar to the one that use to appear with just a right click (Add to panel, Properties, Delete this panel,and New panel). Use this key combination to make changes in the panel. > > For anyone interested, here are the instructions I used, of the many > blogs that turned up in a search. > > http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/08/return-to-ubuntu-classic-desktop-in-ubuntu-11-10/ > > http://shuffleos.com/3274/how-to-create-desktop-launchers-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot/ > > Now to update the other two machines... > > --Jean If anyone is going to use LibreOffice on Ubuntu for writing documents, the Ubuntu version of LO needs to be removed completely using Synaptic. (This is required to prevent Ubuntu from downloading and installing its version of LO updates over your installation.) After this is done, LO 3.4.4 can be installed. I have a document that I can update describing how to remove Ubuntu's version of LO. I also have a script file that can be used to install LO from the LO website after removing Ubuntu's version. (The script requires running in a terminal window.) I can upload these two files in my Dashboard if others would like to have a copy. --Dan -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
