From: Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> To: users@openoffice.apache.org; BRM <bm_witn...@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 4:13 PM Subject: Re: linux remarks in: Someone is hell bent on seeing AOO go away > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:02 PM, BRM <bm_witn...@yahoo.com> wrote: > From: Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> > >To: "users@openoffice.apache.org" <users@openoffice.apache.org> > >Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 6:49 PM > >Subject: linux remarks in: Someone is hell bent on seeing AOO go away > >> I was cruising through the users list yesterday and came across this > >> message. > >> http://markmail.org/message/tl2jof3b5inpnedj > >> I, too am a Linux/KDE users of 11 years, but I'm not sure what you mean by > >> this comment -- > >> "I use KDE; AOO only provides integration for GNOME. " > >> Could you elaborate? > >> What AOO desktop-integration bits do you install? > >As the OP on the comment... > >I installed AOO from the unofficial Debian Ports tree hosted on SF.net[1]. > >There is a package in there called "openoffice-gnome-integration"[1], which is provided by AOO; there is no package "openoffice-kde-integration" - which is what my comment was about. > >So I have no mime-type integration aside from what I do manually; nor do I have it on any menus in KDE4, so I have to run it via KRunner and an explicit path to the soffice binaries[3]. > >Now, if openoffice-gnome-integration will do the above without requiring GNOME to be installed, great - I haven't tried it as the name suggests requiring GNOME which I don't have installed (Kubuntu user). > There used to be a KDE integration project at http://kde.openoffice.org
Interesting...sadly it returns 404 now. > http://dot.kde.org/2003/12/12/openofficeorg-kde-integration-project-launched-today > > > There used to be many ideas, but most of the integration became a "theme-only" where the Oxygen skin will get selected under the Native Widget Framework. I honestly don't care if it integrates into the theming. I'd just like to have AOO on the K menu and the mime-types association. Anything else is gravy. KDE-PIM/Akonadi/Strigi/Nepomuk integration would be nice, but again - that's gravy; right now we just need the basics. $0.02 Ben --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
