https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73451
Robinson Tryon (qubit) <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|medium |low Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW CC| |[email protected] Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #2 from Robinson Tryon (qubit) <[email protected]> --- (In reply to tony from comment #0) > Problem description: Quickbooks only opens MS Office Program for functions > it needs an office suite for. > ... > Current behavior: cannot find or open liberoffice because it is only looking > for MS office. > > Expected behavior: Need quickbooks program to think its seeing libreoffice > writer as MS word. I see two approaches to this problem: 1) Appeal to Quickbooks/Intuit to support LibreOffice 2) Try to make LibreOffice *appear* to be MS-Office to Quickbooks Let's tackle these separately. 1) Appeal to Quickbooks/Intuit to support LibreOffice As of 4 years ago, one of their forum "Allstars" said that "OpenOffice, StarOffice and LibreOffice are not supported." https://community.intuit.com/questions/476695-openoffice Interestingly, LibreOffice is mentioned on Intuit's site as an alternative to MS-Office (2 years ago), so perhaps there's some hope that LibreOffice might be used: http://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/tech-review/5-free-alternatives-to-microsoft-office/ 2) Try to make LibreOffice *appear* to be MS-Office to Quickbooks I have a few guesses but no real information on how Quickbooks 1) Determines that a compatible version of MS-Office is installed 2) Launches the program 3) Passes-in data I think that giving people more choice to be able to use LibreOffice w/Quickbooks would be great, albeit a low priority for any developers who want to figure out how to spoof ourselves as MS-Office, so Priority -> low Status -> NEW If anyone else is interested in integration with Quickbooks, please follow bfoman's advice: (In reply to bfoman from comment #1) > Also as a customer please contact support channels of Intuit - the more > requests this vendor receives from LO users, the more chances that they > consider to support it official way... Definitely true. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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