Re: small problem launching openoffice from desktop

[NoOp <gl...@sbcglobal.net>]

On 7/31/2014 12:00 PM, JD jd1008@gmail.com wrote:
> Well, you are indeed free to open the bug on behalf of everyone.

Not my issue - I use the .deb .desktop file I posted & only recreated to
confirm.

> 
> I find it strange that they have not taken care of this from the get-go.

Probably because nobody has filed a bug report...

> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:53 AM, NoOp <gl...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On 07/23/2014 03:20 PM, JD wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Andrea Pescetti <pe...@apache.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 23/07/2014 JD wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> in /usr/bin, I have:
>>>>> $ ls -l /usr/bin/*office*
>>>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root jd      32 Jul 23 12:18 /usr/bin/ooffice ->
>>>>> /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is a symlink you put there, right?
>>>
>>> YES.
>>> Reason is that libreoffice has already stolen soffice in /usr/bin,
>>> and believe it or not, it has also stolen ooffice. Both of which link
>>> to libreoffice. So I broke the link /usr/bin/oofice -> libreoffice
>>> and made it link to
>>> /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice.
>>
>> Actually it is only the distro LO install that creates soffice links in
>> the /usr/bin.
>>
>> distro maintainers leave/use:
>> $ ls -l /usr/bin/*office*
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jun 18 06:02 /usr/bin/libreoffice ->
>> ../lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 53 Jun 18 04:25 /usr/bin/loffice
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Jun 18 06:02 /usr/bin/soffice ->
>> ../lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
>>
>> The direct install of LO leaves:
>>
>> $ ls -l /usr/bin/*office*
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 Jul 25 14:22 /usr/bin/libreoffice4.3 ->
>> /opt/libreoffice4.3/program/soffice
>>
>> I recommend just using the desktop file provided:
>>
>> <code>
>> #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
>>
>> [Desktop Entry]
>> Version=1.0
>> Type=Application
>> Terminal=false
>> Icon[en_US]=/opt/openoffice4/program/logo.png
>> Name[en_US]=OpenOffice
>> Comment[en_US]=ApacheOpenOffice
>> Exec=/opt/openoffice4/program/soffice
>> Name=OpenOffice
>> Comment=ApacheOpenOffice
>> Icon=/opt/openoffice4/program/logo
>> </code>
>>
>> and file a bug report against:
>> /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice
>> line 119:
>> "$sd_prog/$sd_binary" "$@" &
>>
>>
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