Public bug reported:
In previous releases of Ubuntu, I was able to open spreadsheets saved as
plain text *.tsv files with OpenOffice, and they would open up in calc
by default (similar to how *.csv files open, except that the "Tab"
delimiter would be selected by default, and no string quote character
specified). At some point during the 8.10 intrepid life cycle,
something changed so that even though the default action (shown when I
right click a *.tsv file) is labeled "Open with OpenOffice spreadsheet",
the file instead opens in OpenOffice Writer, which is not the
appropriate action and takes an incredibly long time if you are opening
a large spreadsheet. This continues to be a problem in 9.04 jaunty.
Perhaps something changed within OpenOffice itself such that it no
longer considers *.tsv to be a spreadsheet. Or perhaps it has something
to do with the way file types are recognized in Ubuntu. Either way,
it's an inconvenience for someone who saves a lot of tab-delimited
spreadsheets. Now I have to name them as *.csv and then change the
default filter settings from comma to tab-delimited and from quoted to
not-quoted every time I open a file.
Hope someone knows an easy way to fix that! Thanks!
Ubuntu version: 9.04
openoffice.org: 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3
What I expected: When opening *.tsv files (plain text, tab-delimited
spreadsheets) from nautilus, they should open with the OpenOffice
spreadsheet app, with appropriate default filter options (tab as
delimiter, no quote character)
What happened: Even though it says "Open with OpenOffice spreadsheet"
in the right-click menu, OpenOffice attempts to open it as a text file
in Writer, causing all of OpenOffice to freeze up for several minutes
while it opens the spreadsheet as one huge text file.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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"Open with OpenOffice Spreadsheet" opens *.tsv spreadsheets with Writer, not
Calc
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368876
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