On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:27:35 -0800 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>What I meant to ask was what is the name of the folder in ~/? For >example, in OOo 2.x it was called ~/.openoffice.org2, for 3.0 the "2" >was dropped (which I found confusing, but oh well). Now I have two >folders: > >~/.ooo3.new >~/.openoffice.org > >I don't recall ever seeing ooo3.new before when I had 3.0 on Jaunty, so >is that the new folder? I discovered that my 3.1.1 is using the ~/.openoffice.org folder. I proved this by renaming each one in turn, and also by renaming both. None of my extensions, templates or preferences appear unless the ~/.openoffice.org folder is intact. Interestingly, with both of them renamed OOo automatically creates a new one, also titled ~/.openoffice.org, but the AutoCorrect feature is still missing. In other words, the problem is not in my configurations. >>I _think_ you are using one of the no-go variants of OOo. The default >>no-go installation omits a number of features that people find >>useful, and adds several show stopping bugs, that should require >>immediate recall, and be fixed, because their inefficiency experts >>live in Fantasy Land.(To call them show stopping bugs, is to >>underestimate the degree to which they cripple the functionality of >>OOo. On a scale on 1 - 100, in importance to fix, these rate at >>least 10 000, if not 100 000. >> >>>And why would Fedora install OOo without installing all its features? >> >>The theory is that people don't use the features that aren't included. >It's definitely a distro-customized version of 3.1.1, that is, a no-go >version of some sort. I fully understand the difference between no-go >versions and the "real" OOo from the website. It's just that if they >disabled AutoCorrect I find it incredible that they would do so in the >first place, and also incredible that I'm the first person who has >noticed it. Besides, I do have the acor_en-US.dat file. Why would I >even have such a file if AutoCorrect was disabled? Just now I found these: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=21724 http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=219704&highlight=autocorrect Apparently, jonathan's supposition was correct - Fedora disabled the AutoCorrect feature, astonishing as that is. But in reading the above posts, apparently it is not just AutoCorrect that is disabled. Fedora disabled everything that requires Java. And, according to the above posts, the logic is that Java, while free, is not completely open source. I'm not sure if that is correct, because I have Sun's Java installed and also one called Free Software Foundation Java 1.50. OOo is happy to use either one, although AutoCorrect still won't work regardless of which one I select. So now I am off to uninstall Fedora's OOo and install the one from www.openoffice.org. Y'all keep your fingers crossed for me, 'k? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
