https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44462

--- Comment #6 from Charles <[email protected]> ---
Hi Joel,

Thanks very much for picking up on this.

It appears one thing has changed since I opened this Feature Request, is that
using the right-click>open with method does now apparently properly fix
associations with the normal version of a document type (ie, .odt or .doc) also
fixes the remplate version (ie, .ott or .dot) so they work as templates are
expected to work.

Also, I'd like to expand a little on the concept...

First is the creation of the 'restore point' for the associations.

This means that the installer (and the FAM itself) should always 'record' the
current settings of the associations before changing them. I'd even suggest
expanding this to having two different restore points: 'original' (this is the
state they were in prior to the very first time Libreoffice changes them,
whether this is at install time, or done manually via the FAM sometime
thereafter), and then a 'previous' state, that would only be available after
subsequent changes are made after the 'original' state was created.

Second, is the ability to check and/or repair permissions on the registry
entries that control the file associations the FAM will be managing.

This is actually one of the things that I ran into myself during one of the
first times I ran into a problem with the file associations. The permissions
had somehow gotten messed up. I was able to fix/reset them manually when logged
on with an admin account, so if I can do it manually, then Libreoffice should
be able to do it automatically (again, as long as the user is logged on with a
user account that has local admin privileges).

Thanks again Joel...

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