[K12OSN] OOo default save format
Huck
dhuckaby at paasda.org
Wed May 30 19:53:02 UTC 2007
So, if users were created BEFORE the running the MS-Defaults script...
then they have personal settings of OO defaults eh?
That's likely wherein my problem lies.
--Huck
Eric Harrison wrote:
> Michael Blinn wrote:
>> After upgrading to K12v6 my OOo defaults to saving as .odt, not .doc
>> (word97). I re-ran the script at
>> /opt/ltsp/templates/k12ltsp/openoffice-ms-format-defaults.sh however
>> this didn't work. Examining the script I found that the patches are
>> looking for .xcu files in
>> /usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/Setup
>> however the file in there are:
>>
>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1636 Feb 20 09:51 Setup-calc.xcu.orig
>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 598 May 11 13:55 Setup-calc.xcu.rej
>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1669 Feb 20 09:51 Setup-impress.xcu.orig
>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 646 May 11 13:55 Setup-impress.xcu.rej
>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4161 May 29 15:43 Setup-writer.xcu.orig
>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 607 May 11 13:55 Setup-writer.xcu.rej
>>
>> The .rej are the patch rejects. - I removed the .orig from the .xcu
>> files, then deleted the .rej, and re-ran the script. Though the
>> patches applied cleanly and the defaults are set in the .xcu files to
>> 'MS Word 97', OOo still saves as .odt -- Has something changed in the
>> move up to OOo 2.0.4 or am I screwing something up with my manual
>> fiddling?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>>
>
> Interesting. I just checked the K12LTSPv6 box I have at home and it
> works just fine.
>
> Note that if you run the openoffice-ms-format-defaults.sh script more
> than once, it will generate the *.rej files (it cannot patch an already
> patched file). The *.rej files themselves are not necessarily an
> indicator of a problem.
>
> One way to check that they were patched correctly is to cd to the
> directory and run diff on the files:
>
>> # cd
>> /usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/Setup
>> # diff -u Setup-writer.xcu.orig Setup-writer.xcu
>> --- Setup-writer.xcu.orig 2007-04-17 10:47:17.000000000 -0700
>> +++ Setup-writer.xcu 2007-05-29 22:03:06.000000000 -0700
>> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
>> <value>writer8_template</value>
>> </prop>
>> <prop oor:name="ooSetupFactoryDefaultFilter">
>> - <value>writer8</value>
>> + <value>MS Word 97</value>
>> </prop>
>> <prop oor:name="ooSetupFactoryEmptyDocumentURL">
>> <value>private:factory/swriter</value>
>
>
> If you see the same output, the openoffice-ms-format-defaults.sh script
> did indeed change default format from odt to doc.
>
> Note that this sets the DEFAULT format. Users can change their own
> settings. Changing the default settings has no effect on personal
> settings. When I am testing the default settings, I just rename (or
> totally nuke) my ~/ .openoffice.org2.0 directory - the next time your
> run an OO.o app it will use all of the default settings (you'll lose all
> of your custom settings, of course ;-)
>
> Oh, and just to make sure this is not a versioning issue, I'm using the
> openoffice.org 2.0.4-5.5.22 packages and the ltsp_config
> 0.0.41-k12ltsp.6.0.0 package.
>
> -Eric
>
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