On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:08:50 +0100, Rene wrote in message <20100105100850.ge10...@rene-engelhard.de>:
> retitle 563756 opening .pps in a window impossible > severity 563756 wishlist > tag 563756 + wontfix > forcemerge 548959 563756 > thanks > > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 10:35:17AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..pass, I ditched Microsoft Wintendo 95 on 26 re-installs 12 years > > ago that cost me 2 years research data on thermochemical > > gasification, so I moved on to SuSE 5.2, and, I got /tmp/Om\ > > penger\ -\ NO.pps from what initially looked like a buddy's > > happy-new-year mail to me and a bunch of people, and then, like > > some kinda cross-platform virus. > > No, that's most probably just a some new year stuff in a autoplay > ppt. (As I get too and just ignore) > > > > > (No, playing the presentation and quitting, which is the point > > > > of pps doesn't make it do that). > > > > ..I lost you totally here: I am not aware of any mail going out > > from my box, nor from ooimpress, I got the very firm impression > > Aha, OK. > > > /tmp/Om\ penger\ -\ NO.pps had managed to deny me control over > > ooimpress on my damned box. > > You should think more before thinking of viruses, really. > (Especially what a pps is) ..Microsoft has built an _impressive_ record on their Office suite producing "3'rd party software", so I was not very surprised to see /tmp/Om\ penger\ -\ NO.pps act like it, the surprise was seeing it have an impact on X etc on a GNU/Linux box, and now you tell me OOo too likes to do things the Microsoft way. > > > > > ...I found _no_ way of windowing or closing the chainmail > > > > > without also killing ooimpress. Anyone else wanna try it?: > > > > > > > > Then you didn't try (or look) hard enough. pps is just a ppt + > > > > autoplay. (So as said in 548959 a mv just does it) > > > > ..huh? Am I, by OOo design policy, not _supposed_ > > to run a pps file in ooimpress in e.g. a window??? > > mv foo.pps foo.ppt. ..as a 3'rd time user, I would like to know that, _before_ ooimpress tries to impress me with Microsoft style stunts. ..and, I have now found a way to gain control; hit alt+tab, that 2-key stroke works at least on KDE-4.3.4. > The point of pps is to autoplay. As said, a pps is nothing elese > than a autoplayed ppt. Complain to M$ for this "invention". ..I know _enough_ about Microsoft products thank you very much, but you're blaming "M$" for what ooimpress does? I am _not_ impressed. > PowerPoint AFAIR (last used it years ago...) also shows the pps and > quits. (Didn't try, but doesn't really matter at all). ..I totally agree about that matter, I ditched that crap 12 years ago and see _no_ point in it being re-implemented for GNU/Linux. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
