Re: xdg-open and libreoffice

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Thanks for all the support! Next time I'll insist on LaTeX again,I guess :(

Anno domini 2020 Fri, 28 Feb 13:00:56 -0800
 William Morder via trinity-users scripsit:
> 
> On Friday 28 February 2020 12:29:40 Michael wrote:
> > On Friday 28 February 2020 02:21:21 pm Michael wrote:
> > > On Friday 28 February 2020 01:54:26 pm Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > > > Anno domini 2020 Fri, 28 Feb 13:49:24 -0600
> > > >
> > > >  David C. Rankin scripsit:
> > > > > On 02/28/2020 12:41 PM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> > > > > > But how do I persuade that piece of a genius to
> > > > > > call gimp ???
> >
> > Ah, hit send too soon :(  Another possibility...
> >
> > As they are both open source, IF LO and FF are written in close to the same
> > language and if you also know a similar language, it shouldn't be terribly
> > difficult to rip out the FF code (about:preferences > General >
> > Applications) and merge it into LO.  LO already has a 'Paths' section, so
> > you could use that for your LO template.
> >

Ok, there's no way to configure that pestilence. It always calls xdg-open with absolute path (I'm sure somebody got payed quite a reasonable amount of money to remove the config dialog that was present some versions back). Patching LO is way too clumsy, so I'll have to patch xdg-open - at least that is still an editable textfile ... yes, cheers, somebody will soon discover that and patch it to be binary :(

> For what it's worth, I open up graphics files for editing directly in GIMP, 
> and almost never use "open with" features; but especially not in a word 
> processing program. (Also, I use Open Office, and never warmed up to 
> LibreOffice. They say they're interchangeable, but it's not true.) 

Problem is: there are already images inside the presentation and I do not have the original images. And guess what: the "feature" "save image as .." is gone, too. Probably removed by the same GNOME as the config dialog.

> 
> Too many things can go wrong, like everything crashing, etc. Better to open it 
> in GIMP, then edit, then save, and when you're done, import the file, however 
> you like to do it, into your office program. 
> 
> If you're working on short documents, maybe it doesn't matter too much, but 
> when you have large documents with lots of big graphics files, you will run 
> into that problem of crashing. And nothing kills inspiration like a 
> misbehaving machine. 

Oh yes. That's the next thing I fear. And the stuff is graphic-intense. Oh my, I think it's called progress ... wait a second, wasn't that the deault behaviour of "the great destroyer of companies and unlimited macro fun" aka "Word"?

Nik

> 
> Bill
> 
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