OpenOffice 2.0 and KDE

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 07 May 2006 03:08, Duane Whitty wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > Now that the 1.1.x port is broken on 6.1 and later (thus leaving
> > 2.0 as the only buildable OOo for 6.1) it would be really nice to
> > get the KDE integration working again.  It seems that editing the
> > .desktop files and putting them someplace that KDE can see them
> > (I made a /usr/local/share/applnk/OpenOffice 2.0.2/ directory)
> > gets OOo to show up in the K menu and the file associations to
> > work, but it would be nice to have some icons.  Unfortunately,
> > I either have insufficient google skills or no one has working
> > icons for OOo 2.0 with KDE as I couldn't find any useful info
> > on getting the icons to work.  Any ideas?
> >
> > It would be really nice to at least have a FAQ question for getting
> > OOo 2.x and KDE to play nice even if it just listed the steps one
> > needs to do by hand.
>
> # find /usr/local/share -name "staroffice.svg*" -print
>
> /usr/local/share/icons/crystalsvg/scalable/apps/staroffice.svgz
> /usr/local/share/icons/mono/scalable/apps/staroffice.svgz
>
> My personal preference is the crystalsvg/scalable/staroffice.svgz icon.
> It is what I have loaded in my kicker bar.
> To start the OOo 2.0.2 suite I use the executable
> at /usr/local/bin/openoffice.org-2.0.2 (haven't checked, maybe it is a
> shell script)

And how do I use these?  They don't just work by default with the
.desktop files that OOo installs.  Assume for a second that I'm not
intimately familiar with the details of svg (esp. since I'm not).

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