** Reply to message from Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 1 Sep 2007 09:30:08 -0600
> On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:25:25 -0400 > John Locke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > After poking around, I did find > > that you can launch Calc, Impress etc from the File New dialog in > > Writer however that seems kinda klugy to always need to run Writer > > first. > > That's how it's done. The reason it seems kludgy is that you are perceiving Writer, Calc, etc. as a group of applications, which is not what they are. There is only one application, which has a repertoir of behaviors; aspects, if you will. When you enter Write (arbitrarily chosen as the default behavior) and elect Calc, for example, you are not switching to a different program; it only looks that way. You are altering the behavior of the single application called OOo. With that, however, entering the OOo program through the Write behavior doesn't seem aesthetic to me either. And sure enough, in SuSE Linux, clicking on the OOo desktop icon brings up a menu through which one chooses the behavior (Write, Calc, etc.) desired at the moment. Evidently those who ported the suite to various OSes had their own preferences. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel 1975 Home-brew with ASM-80 1978 CP/M 1981 MS-DOS 1987 Quarterdeck 1992 OS/2 - eComStation 2007 LINUX openSuSE Thirty-two years (and counting) of happy, Windows-free computing --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
