In the Release Notes for LibreOffice 3.3.3, it says: "For Windows users that have OpenOffice.org installed, we advise uninstalling that beforehand, because it registers the same file type associations."
It would be nice to have the option of keeping OOo, for the odd case when something that works in it is broken in LibreOffice, or when you need OOo installed in order to provide help to another user who has OOo but not LibO. The way to do this, I guess, would be to add an option in LibO's installation, e.g.: "FILE ASSOCIATIONS [x] Make LibreOffice the default program for all Open Document Format file types [ ] Make LibreOffice the default program for all Open Document Format and all Microsoft Office file types [ ] Do not make LibreOffice the default program for any file types Learn More" The first radio button would be pre-selected. Clicking on "Learn More" would bring up a verbose explanation, e.g., a listing ODF and MSO file extensions, what the consequences of each choice are, perhaps also a pointer to how file associations are set/changed in Windows. Would this be a difficult thing to implement? Are there other considerations besides registration of file associations that make keeping OOo a problem? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Side-by-side-install-of-LibO-and-OOo-tp3078835p3078835.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
