On 1/29/06, John Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dave Barton wrote: > > > > Maybe a better message for the installer dialog might be: > > "If you already have Microsoft Office installed on this computer, it is > > recommended that you do NOT tick the above boxes." > > > Or something like: > "Clicking on these boxes will make MS Word and Excel files open in > OpenOffice when the files are double clicked in Explorer." Followed with > a pop-up Help box that would explain to the user that this doesn't > uninstall MS Office, or change the format of the files. > Another suggestion might be to put this off until the person actually > starts OOo for the first time, rather than do it by default. I guess > the whole moral of this is that if we actually put a detailed > explanation of what happens for a computer user of average knowledge, > we'd fill up a couple of screens.
I think it's fine. The user has to manually check the boxes and if they don't want openoffice to open MS documents, they shouldn't have checked it. It's not that hard to read and figure out what those boxes mean.
