I am concerned that a bad behavior is being suggested. Considerations:
1. Apache OpenOffice does not "own" the ODF file-format extensions, ODT, ODP, ODS, etc. (OpenOffice.org did not either.) 2. It is rude to take over those associations on install if they are already associated with a different application. 3. In case that the associations are found to already exist and not be for a version being updated, the associations should not be changed without consulting the user. (This problem has already been encountered and handled well in cases where common multimedia extensions are supported by more than one application, such as Windows Media Player, Apple QuickTime, and RealPlayer.) There may be a way to register Apache OpenOffice as a secondary application that can be selected easily by Windows Users even when the default association is not to Apache OpenOffice. - Dennis PS: The handling of the associations that are customarily associated with Microsoft Office file formats can be similar. -----Original Message----- From: Shenfeng Liu [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 07:52 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Suggestion - file format My 2 cents: 1. OpenOffice should always associate the ODF files. No need to provide an option for user to check off. We can notify it during installation. 2. We should provide a check box for users to decide if he/she want OpenOffice to associate with MS Office format. 3. Setting MS Office format as default should not be encouraged (even purely from technical perspective, our data modal does not well match the MS Office format), but maybe we should keep the possibility in case any customer really want it (e.g. during the IT transition phase...). We can make it as a kind of customization that not as easy as you can find a place in UI to set it, but IT admin can config it before the deployment. - Simon [ ... ]
