On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:14 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> > wrote: > > > > > I also use KDE, however, most of the integration has to do with the > > distro. > > > Since distros dont ship AOO, the options are very integrated with LO. > > > > > > Dolphin/Konqueror default the *.odt to LO. > > > > > > > Well, Ok, but you can change these default mime types. > > > > Just like we do automatically for Windows, but offer no solution on Linux. > Users need to do it manually. > > > http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/images/Download_2_4_1_html_5bc7f92d.png > > > > > > > > > > > > > AOO also integrates with Thunderbird but doesn't really show an option > > for > > > Kmail. Or their latest Kolab, OwnCloud system. > > > > > > > > > I'm having some issues myself configuring e-mail to work with AOO 4.0.1 > at > > this point. I use KDE but have never used Kmail. No details until I can > > figure out more what the problem could be. > > > > There is also Akonadi which is the underlining resource manager for > KDE-PIM. Not sure to what degree of integration with KMail "services" is > dependable of it. I know in the past Sun people worked with Mozilla to > integrate some of the Calendar/Mail services with OpenOffice under the > Lightning project. > > > http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/#Calendar_and_Email_Client_.28Mozilla_Thunderbird_and_Lightning.29 > > Evolution is practically death, but both Kolab/Akonadi are very well alive > under the KDE layer. > > > > > > > I know both GNOME and KDE now make use of the freedesktop.org xdg > > specifications. Maybe the internal e-mail handler in AOO can make use of > > those interfaces. At any rate, more research and investigation needed -- > a > > topic for the "dev" list. > > > > Gnome use gconf for their setting rules (API), I don't know the actual > name for KDE but I know there is one. This is a few layers above DBus/uDev, > but more on the Desktop environment level. > > I also think that we need to take efforts to make OpenOffice finally deal > with media (for embedded objects). Sun never wanted to depend on DM > specific media frameworks like gstreamer, and preffered a very obsolete JMF > (Java Media Framework) which quite honestly never really worked as > expected. Freedesktop have some frameworks like Telepathy, and KDE has > phonon to deal with media. > > KDE deals greatly with OpenDocuments (not really AOO but helps) having an > internal rendering libraries for all things OpenDocuments natively. > https://kenai.com/projects/kde-odf-thumbnail > > A lot of useful information here. Oddly, now using AOO 4.0.1, RC3, and > configuring my e-mail manually, all is good. With the previous RC2 version, > I got into some dialog boxes that seemed to want to do some configuration, > but only got partially through that. Odd. And, it didn't work. But, today, > all is well. OK, I will look into this when I have a moment. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > I was cruising through the users list yesterday and came across this > > > > message. > > > > > > > > http://markmail.org/message/tl2jof3b5inpnedj > > > > > > > > I, too am a Linux/KDE users of 11 years, but I'm not sure what you > mean > > > by > > > > this comment -- > > > > > > > > "I use KDE; AOO only provides integration for GNOME. " > > > > > > > > Could you elaborate? > > > > What AOO desktop-integration bits do you install? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > MzK > > > > > > > > "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged > > > > to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." > > > > -- "Following the Equator", Mark Twain > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Alexandro Colorado > > > Apache OpenOffice Contributor > > > http://www.openoffice.org > > > 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > MzK > > > > "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged > > to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." > > -- "Following the Equator", Mark Twain > > > > > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > Apache OpenOffice Contributor > http://www.openoffice.org > 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614 > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." -- "Following the Equator", Mark Twain
