On 01/13/2010 03:51 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > 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?
I wonder if those statements on the forum posts are accurate (disclaimer: I do not use fedora but use Ubuntu instead). It may be the same/similar situation as with Ubuntu; the java related bits are not included in the base install due to install CD space limitations. In Ubuntu, you need to: $ sudo apt-get install openoffice.org in order to pull in Base, the java wizards, etc. Perhaps Fedora has the same? Have a look in your package manager to see. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
