OpenOffice 2.0 and KDE

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 08 May 2006 02:29, Duane Whitty wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > 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).
>
> I don't know anything about svg or svgz either.  I am making the leap that
> they mean scalable vector graphics and scalable vector graphics compressed,
> respectively.

Yes, if you gzcat them you get a xml file that contains vector graphics
info.

> I have no idea how I made the decision to try them out.  
> What I did was added an application to the KDE panel (kicker).  Then I
> right clicked
> on the icon that was present, scrolled to the bottom and entered in the
> path of
> the icon.

Ah, ok.  Hmm.

> Anyhow, I hope this helps and my apologies if my response was a little too
> terse to be helpful.

It's ok.  I was so used to OOo 1.x just working out of the box I was
hoping that there wouldn't be as much manual labor involved. :-P  I'll
probably try Bartosz's suggestion of using the icons in the actual
OOo dist instead, but it looks like they will need to be renamed.

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