On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:10 AM, BRM <bm_witn...@yahoo.com> wrote: > From: Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> > > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Cc: > Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 8:17 PM > Subject: Re: linux remarks in: Someone is hell bent on seeing AOO go away > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > 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. > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > 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! > > > > Aaron Seigo replied to me on G+ with a few links about the current > > freedesktop spec that is followed. I would forward the question about > what > > we want to achieve with Nepomuk: > > -- Aaron comment --- > > For mimetypes: > > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html > > > > File associations are done by default using application .desktop files > and > > modified using the mimeapps.list file in ~/.local/share/applications as > per > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec/ > > > > For application menus: > http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ > > > > The xdg utils can make using these systems from the application side > > easier. > > Great, and look forward to it. > > > As for Akonadi / Nepomuk, I'm not sure what you are looking for exactly? > > API to hook AOO into Akonadi / Nepomuk? If so .. if you can be a bit more > > specific as to what the needs are I can be a bit more specific in my > > answer. > > Honestly, I'm not sure. I don't know the full functionality of > Akonadi/Nepomuk; > the biggest part I'm aware of is the Desktop search as they provide a huge > metadata > search functionality; but I am aware there's other things to. > > So for instance, one aspect might be to have a search option in the Open > File dialogs to > find things using that search functionality - e.g. keyword file search. > Windows provides > something similar now too, so the functionality wouldn't have to be > limited to KDE4. > > PIM integration would be good for shared contacts, address book, etc - > useful for Mail Merges, > letters, etc. > > As I said, I don't know everything that is there so someone would probably > have to look > at what is provided and see what makes sense to utilize. Much of the > functionality is stuff > that is slowly appearing in other platforms (GNOME, Windows), so I doubt > the UI side would > be anything specific to KDE in the end. > > May be Aaron Seigo could point us to the documentation to make the list > for people to > go through and decide what would be useful for integration? >
A feature that OOo used to have is to use the system file picker dialog. However I no longer see this option, can anyone else test this for me? Please go to Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice General -> Open/Save Dialog http://www.ofs.edu.sg/help-desk/teacher-faq/body_clip_image_055.png > > $0.02 > > Ben > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
