On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Girvin Herr <girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net>wrote:
> > On 09/23/2013 02:31 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > <snip> > > 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. >>> >>> This is a list of the 'efforts' done by OpenSuSE on integrating Mozilla >> Firefox with KDE, unfortunately there are not links to the actual patches >> but it does include, KDE File Dialog support, KDE Application launcher >> support and other things (that you dont care) like icons and themes. >> http://old-en.opensuse.org/**KDE/FirefoxIntegration<http://old-en.opensuse.org/KDE/FirefoxIntegration> >> >> If there is a way to get to those patches, it would be trivial to switch >> to >> the OpenOffice values since this is mainly KDE code, more than AOO. >> > <snip> > > This is getting off-topic, but Slackware 14.0 Linux was up to > mozilla-firefox-21.0 when, to my surprise, the next security release went > back down to 17.0.7esr. Here is an excerpt from the > linux-security.comSlackware page as to the reason Slackware did so: > > Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: > +--------------------------+ > patches/packages/mozilla-**firefox-17.0.7esr-i486-1_**slack14.0.txz: > Upgraded. > This release contains security fixes and improvements. > For more information, see: > http://www.mozilla.org/**security/known-** > vulnerabilities/firefoxESR.**html<http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefoxESR.html> > (* Security fix *) > We had to switch to ESR here as well, as there's a problem running > Firefox > 22.0 on Slackware 14.0 under KDE (crash when oxygen-gtk2 is > installed). > Forcing people to uninstall oxygen-gtk2 isn't really an option for a > security fix, and upgrading to the latest oxygen-gtk2 did not help. > It's possible that future Firefox/Thunderbird security updates will > always > come from the ESR branch. > +--------------------------+ > > The reference to "...as well..." refers to Slackware's Mozilla Thunderbird > going back to the 17.0.8 branch too. > > More to the topic of AOO desktop integration, I am no longer using AOO. > It's a long story and way off topic. However, I am using LibreOffice with > KDE4 and it installs into the K-menu just fine. I am using the > freedesktop-menus desktop file. I would expect AOO to have the same > desktop file in their package. If not, well then maybe the subject is not > so "hell bent". > Hope this helps. > Girvin Herr > > We do! see other messages in this thread. And, the install guide has just been modified to emphasize this! We would love to hear your results with the newest version -- AOO 4.0.1 -- which we are voting on now and should be out VERY soon, with the freedesktop-integration menus. I think you'll be pleased! :) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." -- "Following the Equator", Mark Twain
