[ale] OpenOrifice and Gnome

[Jim]

I know advocacy is no help and all of that. But this would be solved so 
easily in KDE, which uses program/file associations similar to Windows, 
but lets your order the associated program by preference 1, 2 or 3.

Joseph A Knapka wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Stupid question time again, but at least it's on-topic this time :-)
>
> I'm trying to set up some VNC-based Gnome desktops on one of my
> Linux boxen so my kids can get their schoolwork done (research
> papers and so forth) without worring about the Redmond crap
> crashing at random. (Darcy lost a couple of hours worth of
> work yesterday when Win98 froze solid. Yes, she knows to save
> frequently, but we all forget on occasion. 16-year-old temper
> tantrums induced by Microsoft products are No Fun.) I want
> to make the environment look as familiar as possible for them.
>
> I've installed OpenOffice, and it works great except
> for one thing: I can't seem to get Gnome's MIME-types set
> up properly so that we can open OpenOffice documents
> by double-clicking them in the file manager. I can run
> "soffice filename.sxw" from the command line and everything
> works fine, but if I tell Gnome to use "soffice %f" to open
> .sxw files, it says "Can't open filename.sxw using the
> soffice %f command". Has anyone made this work? I've
> been looking for clues, but haven't come across anything
> useful yet.
>
> Also, any opinions about the stability of OpenOffice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Joe
>



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