OpenOffice 2.0 and KDE

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday 07 May 2006 06:45, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> On 5/6/06, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> 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.
>
> If your running KDE on FreeBSD theirs little need for OpenOffice
> because KOffice 1.5 now has ODF* support plus it's a shitload easier
> to build and install on FreeBSD, no Java, Bison, or, *xml crap to deal
> with etc. It's in the ports tree under /usr/ports/editors/koffice-kde3
>
> *OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications
>
>
> Hooray for interoperability!

I already have it installed, and might try out the newer version.  However,
in my past experience OOo was vastly superior to Koffice (such as having
the spreadsheet understand time values and doing simple arithmetic on
them, as well as handling MS Office docs).

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