On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:05:41 -0800 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > Drag and drop is not working at all OOo 2.04 on Ubuntu Edgy. > > It worked fine until I upgraded from 2.02 to 2.04. ... > > I'm getting pretty desperate. Copying and pasting is time consuming. > > Can anyone help?
> I really recommend that you "uninstall" the Ubuntu version and install > directly from OOo. I'll repeat my post from "Openoffice.org 2.0 crashes > when save as..." > > Interestingly enough, Ubuntu issued this security advisory: > http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-406-1 where neither package is older than > 2.0.4... I read that security advisory some time ago. I read the Ubuntu forums daily and it was posted there. I ignored it because I never use WMF graphics files. > You can uninstall the Ubuntu version & install the OOo 2.1 version by > following the directions here: > > http://bodmas.org/blog/?p=523 I also found that blog, because at the time I was running Dapper and wanted to upgrade to 2.1. I have since discovered that 2.1 does not add a feature I wanted, so I no longer care about 2.1. In fact, I would not have upgraded from 2.02 to 2.04 except that it was automatic when I upgraded from Dapper to Edgy. I had no choice but to upgrade to Edgy because my Dapper became broken. > I think that once you install the OOo version your problems will be > resolved. > > I tried Edgy on 3 of my systems and after about 2 weeks of messing > around with it I backed all of them down to Dapper (6.061 LTS). On one > system Edgy screwed up the hard drive so bad that I had to actualy > reformat and reinstall Dapper. Uninstalled ubuntu-desktop on all and > installed OOo (2.1), Thunderbird (1.5.0.9), Firefox (1.5.0.9), Seamonkey > (1.1), etc., directly and haven't looked back since. All are solid, work > just fine, and that is on systems that range from 300Mhz, 350Mhz, > 450Mhz, 640Mhz, 2.2Ghz, etc., all with ony 256Mb of RAM. > > As an added note: the Ubuntu version of OOo did not play well with *any* > of my installations. Try the direct install; if it doesn't work you can > always revert back & reinstall the Ubuntu version. I have been using Edgy for about a week now and, other than the usual stuff that an upgrade breaks, I haven't had the slightest problem. The problem of drag and drop has to be inside OOo, not in Edgy, because drag and drop continues to work fine in other apps. Having said the above, one thing I did not mention is that my Edgy is amd-64, not 32-bit. Sometimes programs and upgrades are not available in 64-bit as quickly as they are in 32-bit. Therefore, OOo 2.1 is not going to be available in the repositories for a while yet. What I find interesting is that no one has responded with a "me too." I also found no bug reports about this on openoffice.org (although it is such a huge site that I may not have searched sufficiently completely to find it). Evidently I am unique. If that is the case, chances are that it is just a missing module or something. I think I am going to go to openoffice.org and file a bug report. That should eventually catch the eye of a developer, who will first try to figure out if it is a user problem ('cause I'm a dumbass), or a real bug. Thanks for the response. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
