On 2005-08-25 11:30 AM, Scott Mayo wrote:
I had installed it with my 'setup' user and then copied that profile to
the default user. This seems to work, except for new users actually
have to open up OpenOffice and then open the file. They cannot just
double click a file, because it does not have anything associated with it.
Is there anyway to get past having every user to run the install?
You can either change the setup user to the user name or point the file
association to soffice.exe. Pointing to soffice.exe (in the /programs
directory) works, but the file association looks different than a
regular install. I don't know if this will cause problems or if there is
any difference, but it is kinda weird. It seems to me like what happens
is that all files types (.doc, .xls, .ppt) are then opened by
OpenOffice, rather than the corresponding modules. With a regular
install, the file associations appear to be directly related to the OOo
modules (.doc is opened by Writer, etc.) and the icons are different.
This may not mean anything or have any effect on how things work, but it
does mean that .doc, .xls and .ppt files will all have the same file
type icon (the OOo icon) instead of the different icons for each file type.
This would mean
that each user would have to run the setup program everyday that they
log in.
Are you saying that if you run OOo setup again for that new user, you
can get the direct file associations to work? This is what I could not
do. Even after running setup again (and checking the corresponding boxes
during setup), I still could not open files by double-clicking - I had
to manually set the file association.
It seems that once the profile directory is copied, things get screwed
up. The only way I could get the direct file associations (different
icons for each file type) to work was to change the user name via
Windows Control Panel. The problem with this is that the original user
name shows up in the login window ("setup" for you, I used "test").
This can be dealt with partially by using the Welcome screen (Control
Panel|Change the way users log on or off) but if their system goes on
standby, or they have the screen saver password-protected, the original
user name (setup/test) shows up again. Changing the user name in Windows
does not change the profile directory name of that user.
Obviously, not an ideal solution.
Personally, I don't understand some of the things about how OOo is
setup. For a program that could realistically replace MS Office, OOo
doesn't seem very user-friendly for the new user. Even the install is
unnecessarily complicated. Why is setup.exe buried in a directory with
over 500 different files? Sure, I know to look for setup.exe, but is a
new user going to know they need to scroll past all those files to get
to the setup program to install OOo?
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Ken Green
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