On 12/18/2010 03:48 AM, Jesús Corrius wrote: >> Right-click the .odt and select 'Open With' (WinXPPro); the 'Programs' >> window shows only option for LibO, not OOo. It does show options for >> Word if MS Word is installed and has the odf converter installed. I've >> repeated this on my WinXPro VM by: >> >> 1. Uninstalling all instances of OOo and LibO. >> 2. Reinstall OOo (3.2.1 OOO320m18) and verify that the .odt's are >> associated with OOo. >> 3. Reinstall LibORC1 (OOO330m18). The .odt's are now associated *only* >> with LibO *and* cannot be reassociated with OOo from right-clicking and >> 'Open With' from Windows Explorer. > > I was expecting to find some problem with the merge of the > SupportedTypes in the registry during the installation, but everything > worked fine in my Windows XP SP2. I've followed your instructions and > I now have two entries in the "Open With" context menu, one for > OpenOffice.org and the other one for LibreOffice. > > Anyone else is able to reproduce this? > >> My guess is that the problem is with the common swriter.exe (et al) >> executable name. If I get time over the weekend I'll modify the names in >> the Windows registry to see if I can cause the situation to change. > > As I mentioned before, in the registry there's the full path of the > executable, so it doesn't matter if they have the same name provided > that the path is different. > > Here you have info on how this works: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee872121(v=VS.85).aspx > >> In the interim; how about you test & also explain how a standard Windows >> user is to "associate an extension with any >> program you want and It doesn't matter if they have the same name or >> not". And in particular, associate an .odt with *both* OOo and LibO on >> the same system... > > There are many options, but I wil exclude the complicated ones. So I > guess in Windows XP (in Vista and 7 this is nicer: Open With -> Choose > Default Program) there are two options left: > > 1. sample.odt -> Open With -> Choose program -> Select program from a > list -> Browse > > 2. Open Explorer -> Tools -> Folder options -> File types -> ODT -> > Change (Advanced Options will allow you to create an entry in the Open > With menú, but you need to be a bit more advanced user). >
Thanks for testing. I'll test again tomorrow as I'm currently updating my machine with the WinXPPro VM on it from Ubuntu lucid to maverick. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
