Karmic and open office don't like each other.

[Fintan]

I recently noticed that open office doesn't save documents correctly.

On this machine open office "forgets" to add the file endings (.odt, .ods, .doc, etc)

Anyone else see this behavior?

[kubicle]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

Confirmed here

[maestrobwh1]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

good to know!

[hteles]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

Hi,

i can confirm that too.
Yesterday i was saving a document in Msft doc format and it ended empty, i was lucky cos I've saved before in .odt :

[dibl]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

I dunno -- cannot confirm it.

Just did the big 9.10 dist-upgrade here -- 20:30 hours Eastern Time US. Afterward, checked an OOO spreadsheet. It is saved as an ".ods" document, and opens and displays correctly. Maybe you guys got caught in mid-upgrade or something?

[kubicle]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

Looks like the cause is 'openoffice.org-kde' package. This package makes openoffice use kde-like file dialogs (among other things), and it's these dialogs that seem to have this bug.

Without it file saving works as expected.

[Fintan]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

That sounds right. I have seen that in alpha's before.
Thought it was taken care of though.

After yesterdays upgrade I have to specify the picture file type I want to insert.
Never had that one before.

Will remove openoffice.org-kde and see how it goes.

Edit: That seems to solve t5his little issue.

One nice side effect: Open Office opens and responds much, much faster here.

Wonder why

[GreyGeek]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

I upgraded yesterday but I didn't have openoffice.org-kde installed so it wasn't added. File extensions in OOo work for me.

[bobcollard]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

Using Openoffice.org word processor on Karmic 9.10 alpha 5 from upgraded 9.04 and no problems, never got the -kde version.

[Zorael]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

Confirmed, using openoffice.org-kde makes it forget to add file extensions (even though you check the box), and there are two empty checkboxes at the load/save dialog box without descriptions.

But if I remove openoffice.org-kde, it looks ugly as sin. Like any GTK app when you don't use the QtCurve GTK style . This is with the Oxygen style, which keeps getting preselected even if I try to pick Crystal or Tango or whatnot.

[aridus]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

I am having similar problems. Saving ODT files as DOC or RTF is not working correctly. I have not tested extensively but some things are not saved in DOC (e.g. highlight, notes) and RTF is just a blank page. Does anybody have any further information on this and/or a fix that allows one to retain the lovely new kde look for openoffice?

With thanks, Martin

[orion2000za]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

there is a bug report for this and the maintainer has a fix that will be released AFTER the RC release.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/452518

in the meantime, switch to Openoffice. org dialogs as an option and the problem goes away - without having to remove openoffice.org-kde

[gldvorak]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

My system is OK.

[Fintan]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

Seems to be behaving today, after RC and reinstalling openoffice.org-kde I will test some more just to be sure.

[Zorael]

Re: Karmic and open office don't like each other.

I've been using OO.o a bit more the last few days and it seems the checkbox for auto-adding file extension still doesn't work. It shows, but it does nothing, making my files end up extensionless.