Jeff Waugh wrote:
<quote who="Phil Scarratt">
So you're saying that a file say somedoc.sxw on a samba share, if I
browse to it using nautilus and double-click to open, it should open in
OOo instead of spit the dummy (I can't remember the error)? Or is this
something that would work with a later version of OOo - say 2?
If the version of OOo you're using (depends on distro, version, and possibly
if you have OOo/GNOME support packages installed) supports gnome-vfs, then
100% yes. :-)
Hmmmm...well there you go. As I'm using ubuntu hoary (all up to date) I
would expect so...let's take a look at synaptic...look at that
OOo-gnomevfs not installed...installing now...hmmmm...the OOo splash
appears now (instead of an error as with say a dia file) but the
openoffice window doesn't...looks like some investigating to do...thanks
Jeff much appreciated. That's the last 2 outstanding problems with my
system almost fixed - first was printing from Mozilla apps (kept
crashing the app), second and last is this opening docs in nautilus
which is almost fixed - well progress being made anyway :)
In looking at synaptic, I also noticed that OOo 1.9 is there :) will
have to install and try it....been looking forward to that for awhile.
Coming soon in Ubuntu -> support for interesting mount options in
pmount, letting your users mount and unmount things like nfs, smb, FUSE
and crypted filesystems without root, but with strong policy (the p in
pmount). Nice!
Ahh, very nice indeed. Looking forward to that. That would certainly
resolve the problem (I would think anyway).
pmount is love. :-)
:D
BTW, kudos on ubuntu. Multimedia setup still needs a little bit of work if
it is to be used mainstream - but that is probably a linux thing
generally.
Yeah, there are a lot of legal issues to sort out there, which restrict us
from doing this stuff *and* making sure it's 100% Open Source.
Actually, that's one of the things I like about Ubuntu (not saying other
distros aren't though) - the effort to make 100% Open Source. Much
appreciated.
It's not quite easy enough to use with all applications (eg skype and xmms
together out of the box don't seem to play ball well without a fair amount
of fiddling). I guess in part that's the applications problem.
Yeah, this is an ugly "fix the whole Linux audio stack" problem. We're
working on it. ;-)
Indeed that was my conclusion after I managed to setup multimedia on
warty and then configure dual sound cards the way I wanted. Most
definitely not a pleasing "end-user" experience, although in some sick
twisted way I enjoyed it and learnt somewhat about the linux audio stack
in the process.
In any case, there was definitely improvement from warty to hoary in
that area. Again, appreciate the work of the whole ubuntu team....great job.
Fil
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